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"The Coming of the Fairies" Made Real by Conan Doyle English Author Makes Serious Effort to Prove That Children Have a Solid Foundation for Belief in Elfin Creatures; Photograph? Real, He Says By IsSbel Ross In The Coming of the just Published by the George H. Coran Company? Sir Arthur Connn Doyle stakea a serious presentation of his MM in favor of the existence of fairies. Not with the whimsicality of Barrie pleading for his fantastic brain ehlldren, nor with the mystic shading that George Russell applies to his fairy folk, but with a humorless, analytical touch Sir Arthur probes the subject, exposes its weaknesses, argues in its favor and leaves his readers to draw their own conclusions. The book is the result of a long in -estijration by Sir Arthur and E. L.

Gardner, a prominent member of the executive committee of the Theosoph ical Society in England, into the case of the Cottingley Fairies. It is illustrated with pictures of the diaphonous little being? that the Carpenter girls are sup? posed to have photographed. Two of these pictures were published in The Tribune when Sir Arthur was in New York last spring. Although certain that a strong prima facie case? has been bqilt up for them, Sir Arthur hesitates to say that there is no conceivable loophole left for error. He quotes at length the findings of Mr.

Gardner, who investigated the girls' story and went over the ground where the pictures were taken. He cites the expert opinions of camera men. He goes exhaustively, if with? out much purpose, into the statements of other people who claim to have seen fsiries. He even goes' so far as to say that his children have seen little creat? ures that they took to be fairies. Expects Cry of "Fake" Summing up, he says: "Should the incidents here narrated, and the photographs attached, hold their own against the criticism which they will excite, it is no exaggeration to S8y that they will mark an epoch in human thought.

I put them and all the evidence before the public for ex? amination and judgment. If I am my? self asked whether I consider the case to be absolutely and finally proved, I answer that in order to re? move the last faint shadow of doubt should wish to see the result repeated before a disinterested witness. At the asme time I recognize the difficulty of a request, since rare results must be obtained when, and how they can. But, short of absolute proof, I con? sider, after carefully going into every possible source of error, that a strong prima-facie case has been built Up. "The cry of 'fake' is sure to be raised and will make some impression ipon those who have not had the op? portunity of knowing the people con? cerned, or the place.

On the photo? graphic side every objection has been tonsidered and adequately met. The lictures stand or fall together. Both are false, or both are true. All the circumstances point to the latter al? ternative, and yet, in a matter involv? ing so tremendous a new departure, one needs overpowering evidence be fore one can say that there is no con? ceivable loophole for error." Camera Caught the Fairies The story of the Cottingley fairies is the story of Elsie and Frances Car? penter, the niece and daughter of an electrician, aged sixteen and ten years, who were always telling tales of hav? ing seen fairies. They were given a camera and when the first plate was developed, the fairies were said to be there.

On different occasions they got pictures of fames and gnomes, but never before witnesses. Sir Arthur is convinced that no photographic trick was employed, consciously or uncon? sciously. He quotes the report turned in by Mr. Gardner after a thorough study of the case: "Extraordinary and amazing as these Photographs may appear, I am now quite convinced of their entire genu? ineness, as indeed would every one else be who had the same evidence of trans arent honesty and simplicity that I ad. I am adding nothing by way of explanation or theories of my own, though the need for two people, pref? erably children, is fairly obvious for photography, in order to assist in tha strengthening of the etheric bodies." To the objections raised by photog-i raphers that the fairy figures showj quite different shadows to those of the 1 uman figure Sir Arthur proffers the explanation that ectoplasm has a faint luminosity of its own which would largely modify shadows.

Approved by Expert Various photographic companies, Sir Arthur admits, were of the opinion that the pictures were made from models. It was argued that similar effects could be produced by clever studio painting and modeling. These theories he be? lieves to have been disproved on the evidence presented by Snelling, a well known photographer, who said of them: "These two negatives are entirely gen? uine, unfaked photographs of single exposure, open-air work, show move? ment in the fairy figures, and there is no trace whatever of studio work in? volving card or paper models, dark backgrounds, painted figures, etc. In my opinion, they are both straight, un? touched pictures." Sir Arthur's own study of the pic? tures under high-power lens convinces him that the fairies have the double pipe which the ancients associated with fauns and naiads. "But if pipes, why not everything else?" he asks rhetorically.

"Does it not suggest a complete Tange of uten? sils and instruments for their own life? Their clothing is substantial enough. It seems to me that with fuller knowledge and with fresh means of vision these people are destined to become just as solid and real as the Eskimos. What joy the complete abandon of their little graceful figures as they let themselves go in the dancel They may have their snadows and trials as we have, but at least there is a great gladness in this demonstration of their life." May Be "Thougtit Forms" Straying further into the realms of speculation Sir Arthur finds that the elves are a compound of the human and the butterfly, while the gnome is more of a moth. Can these be thought forms? he asks. The fact that they I J.HE PROOF of the pudding is quickly deter? mined by the eating, but the test of good furni? ture is arrived at slowly through the years.

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The Shipping and Travel Guide appears every day in The New York Tribune. Sprites of Fairyland Caught hy Camera ii This elfin creature al the left is. posed on hush leaves offering a posey of harebell? to her little flesh-qrul-blood fri end. The leaping fairy at play with another little girl is shoicn at the are so like our conventional ideas of fairies would seem to strengthen this theory. These little figures, he saya, seem to have an objective realty, as we have ourselves, even if their vibra? tions should prove to be such that it takes either psychic power or a sensitive plate to record them.

"If they are conventional it may be that fairies have really been seen in every generation and so some correct description of them has been retained," he says. "One or two consequences of all this aie obvious. The experiences of children will be taken more seri? ously. Other well-authenticated cases will come along. These little folk who appear to be our neighbors, with only spmc small difference of vibra? tion to separate us, will become famil? iar.

The thought of them, even when unseen, will add a charm to every brook and valley and give romantic in? terest to every country walk. The recognition of their existence will jolt the material twentieth century mind out of its heavy ruts in the mud and will make it admit that there is a glamour and a mystery to life." The fairy pictures never published until this book came out are the Fly? ing Fairy, the fairy offering a posy oi harebells to Elsie and the fairies hav? ing their sun bath in a bower. Mr Gardner sees these fairies not as fash ionably-coiffed French dolls but as "super-Pavlovas in minia'ture." Even Heard Them Play The fairy offering a flower to Iris a model of gentle and dignified pose he says, but the third picture of th( fairy's bower finds him gasping oui excited superlatives. All the are supposed to be exquisite in color ing. The swish of their wings and faint quivering of their p3pes distinctly heard by the little girls oi a calm day, according to the story tole by Elsie and Frances.

A clairvoyan who visited the woods with the littl? firls submitted a report from whicl ir Arthur quotes at length. Amonj other things Bhc pictures Elsie seeing a flight of little manniquins, implike, racing across the fields. Or, again, a fairy band casting a bright radiance over the field with a director "auto? cratic and definite in her orders." Later Elsie a tall and stately fairy coming across the field to a clump of harebells. In its arms is something which may be a fairy baby, wrapped in gauzy substance. Other im? pressions are of four-footed creatures being ridden by winged figures who are thin and bend over their mounts like jockeys, and, lastly, "seven wee tairies quite little figures face downward." Frances sees fairies as large as herself, the clair? voyant says, and fairies clothed in iri? descent? shimmering, golden light.

The Voice of the Skeptic Sir Arthur does not spare himself. He freely quotes the criticism to which he was subjected when some of the pictures first appeared. For instance, Maurice Hewlett wrote of him: "Knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Misses Carpenter have pulled one of them. Meantime, I sug? gest to him that epochs are born, not made." Major Hall-Edwards, the famous au? thority on radium, writing in "The Birmingham Weekly Post," said: "Or I the evidence I have no hesitation in saying that these photographs could have been I criticize the atti? tude of those who declared there is something supernatural in the circum? stances attending the taking of thes? pictures because, as a medical man, believe that the inculcation of such ab? surd ideas into the minds of childrer will result in later life in manifesta? tion of nervous disorder and menta disturbances." Sir Arthur claims that if the confi dence of children could be gained anc they were led to speak freely a sur prising number would confess to hay ing seen fairies. Here he quotes hi: own children as having seen a single little figure twice in the garden and once in the nursery.

His book, at its best, is a compilation of the experi? ences of people who claim to have seen various forms of fairy life. He quotes the theosophic view of fairies, which that their bodies are of a density lighter than gaseous va? por. In their own way they are as real as we are and perform functions in connection with plant life of an im? portant character. They are not born and do not die as wo do. They have little or no a glad? some, irresponsible joyousness.

Their bodies are not clean-cut like ours, but are small, hazy and like luminous clouds of color with a brighter, spark? like nucleus. Their wings resemble the limbs of animals, but there is no articulation and no venation. They are known as emanations." Their nourishment is absorbed by a rhythmic breathing or pulse. The per? fume of flowers is their delight. They have no real birth nor death, simply a gradual emergence and a re? turn to a subtler state of being.

They have no sex, other than a process which corresponds to the fission and budding of our familiar simple animal? cules, with the addition, toward the end of the cycle, of fusion or reassembly into a larger unit. They have no lan? guage of worcts, but communicate by inflexion and gesture, like domestic animals. Having thus given the general theory of the place in creation of such creatures as defined by thcosophy, the only system of thought which has found room for them, Sir Arthur says: "I do not myself contend that the proof is as overwhelmine as in the of spiritualistic phenomena. The series of incidents here set forth resent either the most elaborate am ingenious hoax ever played upon public or else they constitute an evenl in human history." Ami Eventful Sale Silk Hosiery will teke place (Monday) on the First Floor Several thousand pairs of Quality Silk Hosiery will be offered at Sow prices Women's Silk Hos? Black, congo, cordovan, otter, gray or russet; with per pair Women's Hose gray or loesge per Telephone 7000 Murray Hill "jjj Edison Fans Nearly MobHim in Greeting At Electrical Show Says Machines Will Do All the Work in 25 Years; 50,000 Attend the Last Day of the Exhibit More than 60,000 persons attended the closing session yesterday of the annual electrical and industrial exhi? bition at Grand Central Palace and, according to Thomas Edison, the guest of honor, every one of them tried to crowd into the narrow reception room of the Edisonia museum when he stopped off there before making a tour of his relics. It was planned to have him visit the museum, which is made up of all his early experiments, and chat over old times with those associates of his early days now living.

The museum looked more like the scene of a fresh? man cane rush than a sanctuary, how? ever, with hundreds of persons pushing each other in an effort to get close to the great inventor and all of then cheering him. It all seemed to please Mr. Edison, who smilingly pushed his way through the crowd, shaking hands with as many as were in reach. He much inter? ested when taken to the cigar-making machine, which has 3,000 moving pagts. The inventor went insane after invent? ing the machine.

"That's what happens to all in? ventors," he ill-id. "They go crazy or go to the pforhouse. But we're great lot just the same. In twenty five years there won't be any foi you fellows to do. We will have in? vented machines to do everything That is, there won't be any work cept for inventors.

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