13 JUNE 1874, Page 15

SPIRITUALISTIC PHOTOGRAPHS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sru,—In the article on Mr. Wallace's paper in the Fortnightly Review which appeared in the last number of the Spectator, in referring to the photographs taken here by Mr. Beattie and my- self, the most important fact tending to prove their genuineness has been quite overlooked, viz., that in the great majority of them the appearances which subsequently came out on the plates, on development, were minutely and accurately described by the medium during the exposure of the plates in the camera ; and I am fully convinced, from personal knowledge of him, that he is -quite incapable of lending himself to anything like deception. And even though he had been inclined to do so, the arrangements we adopted in taking the pictures were such that nothing could have