New-York tribune., 1910-08-26
PROMOTED SPIRIT BOOK
AS WELL AS MAGNES|A
Mrs. Hopkins Wrote Queer Bro
Chure and Qualey Looked
to Its Publication.
ABOUT SOULS AND THINGS
ONLY a Primer, Said Author, AID
Threatened TO Write More
-Qualey and Corbett
Hunt for Bail.

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that he would not have 10 stay in the
Tombs until he is placed on trial with
H W. Corbett for getting $4,000 of
Mrs William T Bulls money. it devel-
oped that he was concerned last winter
with Mrs. Ellen Dunlop Hopkins, who
came from Europe to help Qualey, in the
publication of a book purporting 20 let
/ finite man in on the secrets of infnity-
The book was not produced without
some tribuIation and il is now not an
easy thing to get a copy Of the limited
/ edition The book was written by Mrs.
! Hopkins. according to the clerk who
passes them out. while Qualey was the
acrobat who tried to swing the printer
! The Arden Press. at No. f22 East 10Th
street. is the sales Office. And this hap
pens also to be the Office Of Charles NJ
Stoever. where the Nagnesia-A Asbestos
Company had desk room.
The spirits who are alleged to have
furnished the material for the book
seem to have been at considerable pains
10 cover their trail Theodore Z. Schultz,
also of No. 12o East 25th street, who set
UP the type. knew Qualey only in con-
nectiou with the book. He had done
some printing for the Stone Age Plaster
Company and about a year ago Qualey
brought in the manuscript OF Problems
OF Your Generation and had Mr.
Schultz set il Up as private job
Schultz set up the type at a cost Of
. l. &c IN
til he got his money. He made several
visits to the office upstairs. but only
once could he see Qualey. On the other
occa sions he saw Corbett. who said that
he had nothing to do with the book. and
knew nothing about it. The one time
that QuaIey was in Schultz got SO from
him Qualey was in several times to
see Schulte's manager. and make a little
talk about the book, but the type was
locked up in the safe, and it was not
brought out until Qualey paid the full
bill after threat of a suit.
Wouldn't Publish Book.
Qualey then tried to get Schultz to
bring the book out, but the astute
printer made financial conditions that
Qualey could not meet, and the work
was done elsewhere When the book
was finally ready for the market in
limited edition of five hundred copies
the name of the Arden Press was put on
the bulletin board at No. 122 East 25th
street, and the books were piled UP in
Stoever's office. Now, when the in
tending purchaser traces the great light
to its lair polite clerk inquiries;
DO you know the author. Mrs. Hop
kins?"
On being informed TO the contrary,
she takes the purchasers name and files
II away. The clerk has never heard Of
Qualey in connection with the book
She knows only Mrs. Hopkins, who, the
clerk positively asserts, is the author
The only designation approaching
claim TO authorship in the book is the
signature Daisy Dewey to two lines on
the title page, saying;
The author claims but to have been
10 transmit the following
chapters
The same signature follows on the last |
pa ge the final words Of the book, Pax |
Vobfscum.' problems Of Your Genera
ton"
The polite clerk does not know Daisy /
Dewey. She assures you that she knows |
only Mrs. Hopkins and again asserts
that Mrs Hopkins is the author.
Language of Their Own.
The book is q collection of about ten |
words sprinkled over 104 pages
Of clear type. In some cases the words |
were not sorted over thoroughly before
they were put in the forms. This may
be accounted for. however, by the state
ment on page II that.
We do not recognize individual per
that is. in the same way that
you do. for we have no language only
perception
The dedication makes as clear as does
any part of the work the purported
source Il says:
In memory Of those whose lives on
earth exempli1ed the meaning of this
Book, who now interpret 10 you illu-
ninating the pathway TO Eternity
The preface gives great send-of to
Daisy Dewey" saying: We make use
Of the one mind whose power We are at
liberty TO control" and in explaining the
purpose of this communication from the
future state the preface says:
We wish TO assist scientific research; we
mean the problems which have been pro-
by the great minds of the uni
verse. our desire Is TO contest some of |
these problems. that is. TO bring more light,
more proof 10 them.
In the mean time we snail endeaVor 10
give you cursory glances Of your future |
home so that you, with others, may learn
to take the necessary steps toward your |
for while progressing where
YOU stand you materially advance your
progress here. In this way we mean 10 aid
mankind, working in accord with the
divine MIND.
4 task has been given; We assume the re-
zponsibility; we return 70 your earth plane
to teach. so much has been given lis, SO
much was given you. shown by the fact
~ your desire for knowledge and improve
ment We will return again, and yet again,
I'm our task has been accomplished.
Sounds Financial, but Is Not.
In the body of the book some lin1ita-
tons are acknowledged even to those
VINO have penetrated the mysteries OF
7eath One of the first statements is:
We work within confines ourselves
mr. vision not being perfected" And
IN the next page: What we give we
7rst have to collect"
This might be thought TO be a refer
.nce TO financial operations. but further
m occurs the passage: