The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-19
THE PALLADINo PHENOMENA.

Eusapia ralladino ana Her Phenomena.
By Hereward Darlington. Published by
Il. w. Dodge & Company: New York.
This is an elaborate account by Il
keen investigator Of such doings. Mr..
Carrington has written heretofore. "The
Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism,
Vitality, Fasting and Nutrition,
- The Coming Science Hindu
Magic and other books of kindred
nature. He has been instrumental IN
exposing large number of so-called
mediums and their tricks. lie deals eX-
haustively with the life of this notori-
Gus Neapolitan medium, a complete
summary being given Of all the avail
able historic evidence (much hitherto
unpublished) including reviews of cX-
perimcnts made by Professors Lombroso,
Morselli, Richct. Curic. BottazZi, Flam-
marion. d 'Arsonyai. Sir Oliver Lodge,
and many other eminent saVants. Then
follows II detailed account Of tho
author s own carefully conducted test
seanccs recently held in Naples. These
have heretofore been reported in maga-
2lnc articles, Two chapters deal with
The various theories that have been
advanced by scientists to explain the
phenomena, and the concluding chapter
gives a keen study Of the facts from
the biological and psychological points
Mr., Darlington. himself an expert pres
tidigitatcur aud long noted as Il firm
slleptlc and an authority on the detcc-
tIon of psychic frauds. coUteSseS him
self hafl'Icd bv. this Ncapolitan woman.
1t does not follow. Of course. that there
IL any recognition Of supernatural
power, or spiritual agency or anything
Of that kind, in the failure to solve
thc mysteries Of the manifestations
nIN hN- hpr TOT
while differing in degree from those
exhibited by other mediums. most of
whom have been exposed I'm their trick
cry. are in no wise different i'm their
method or general tendency from those
that have been so thoroughly exploded
The natural thought, therefore, is that
there must be some trick about these,
only that so far il has not been de
tcctcd, That is practically Mr.. CARING
ton view of the mattcr. although he
does not state it quite SO BADLY as that.
The fact that all Of these manifesto
tions have close similarity, and so
many of them follow along identical
hnes, some pushing their manifestations
further along than others, indicates that
all must he classified under the same
general head of impositions or deu-
sions. The fact that some, pushing along
a little further than others, are not
sleIght-o hand performer doing "A lot of
tricks that are detected. and doing a
few that are not detected. does not by
reason Of the undctccted tricks. become
miraculous person or deal with the
spiritual life. As long as manifestations
arc all practically Of The same order,
they must all he classed as fakes so
far rs amy relation TO inc aftcr-lifc is
concerned, IL docs not necessarily follow
that The frauds are conscious or Grim
lnal, for sclf-delusIon plays in this. as
In so many other matters relating TO pc
culiarities OF belief "A most important
part. The book is interesting as show.
ing the feats of this medium, and the
conditions under which they were per
formed. But one cannot avoid the con
clusion. after reading it all, that the
mystery IN her manifestations simply
means that she is able 10 push her eX-
periments and performances further
than some others. That is all that can
be said about ii, and il means nothing
i'll particular in the discussion of any
real matters bearing on the spiritual or
aftcr-lifc