17 AUGUST 1889, Page 25

Psychology Applied to the Solution of Occult Psychic Phenomena.

By C. G. Rae, M.D. (Porter and Coates, Philadelphia, U.S.A.)- Dr. Rae is a veteran labourer in this field, his first contribution to the science having appeared as far back as 1847. He has studied carefully the evidence of hypnotism, mesmerism, clairvoyance, phantasms of the living and the dead, and here gives us his views, always based on philosophical reasoning, with much ability and in a candid spirit. The subject is too vast for us to deal with in these columns, but we may unhesitatingly commend the book to students.