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TIIK HUN, SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1918. Edward Clodd Clouts the Spiritualists IX order combat "(lie present impetus to the revival of spiritualism which has been given by the publication of Sir Oliver Iodge's Edward Clodd has prepared and, apparently with laborious research, has collected the material for his book, The Question: If a Man Dies Shall He Live A paint The antbor proceeds in a most thorough manner to "an examination of the evidence on which those who call themselves spiritualists base that lie tells ns that "modern spiritualism had its origin in America, land of 'many inventions," and in pages replete witii anecdotes, many of the most mirth provoking order, he shows bow from very humble origins spiritualism has taken deep root in the centres of our civilir-a-tion. Charlatanry of Record. Mr. Clodd contrasts these claims for the supernatural, in manifestations made by the modern spiritualists, with the claims of the medicine men, Indian fakirs and savage necromancers; he maintain we cannot accept the claims of one without giving credence to the other.

lie instances as a predecchsor of the modern table rapping, tapping and mysterious noises, the Cock Lane gho.st which Dr. Johnson, in the Gentleman's helped to lay. Mediums Caught in Fraud. The great lexicographer, apparently speaking for the investigating committee, says: "It is therefore the opinion of the whole assembly that tlu child had some art of making or counterfeiting a particular noise and that there is no agency of a higher And this "art of making or counterfeiting a particular noise'' was detected by three medical xnnh in the case of the Fox girls, famous mediums in the '30s, who reported that the knoekings were developed from the "ankle, joints of the toes and the fingers," from the shoulder and hip joint. "We hare also heard of two additional cases in which sounds arc produced by the knee A confession from the Fox girls quickly followed this exposure A long list of mediums is cited by tliu author as detected in fraud, including the Fox sisters, Davenport brothers, Mrs.

Fay, "Dr." Sladc, Hudson, Heme, "Dr." Monck, Fran Uoetlie and Kusapia But exposure in trickery has given but little embarrassment to the for as the editor of the Spiritualist naively suggests: "Evil spirits sometimes abetted the raediums'in In. the case of the notorious Mrs. Piper we are confronted with even more enigmatical evidence. She gave numerous sittings which were arranged by the late F. W.

II. Myers, Sir Oliver "and Lady Lodgc. and Dr. Walter lieaf. Hut on reluming to America in October, 1001, she recanted, denying in the New York Herald "that she had had communications from the departed when in the trance state." But on solier second or third thought, Mrs.

Piper recants her recantations, and we are left in suspense or, in the parlance of the "parlors," a state of mental levilation. Mr. Clodd is scathing in his denouncement of the Thcosophists; he gives extracts from Mme. Ulavntsky's confession, and concerning Annie Besant's "Mahat- German Prisoners of War Tend a Garden in Camp THIS pirture, from The Prisoner of War in Germany, by Dr. Daniel J.

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