The Other 1Vorld. By Stuart Cumberland. (Grant Richards. 10s. Od.
net.)—Mr. Cumberland's "personal experiences of mystics and their mysticism " in many European capitals and in the East are distinctly entertaining. He is frankly sceptical as to the possibility of communicating with " the other world " ; but serious students of psychical research have reason to be grateful to him for exposing innumerable impostors. He tells many curious stories about well-known or notorious personages like Rasputin, the ex-Khedive, and the German Emperor, He was told that,
when the Emperor went to Palestine,. " ib was with great difficulty he was prevented from entering Jerusalem on an ass, and from essaying an ascension in a captive balloon which was to have been included in the baggage." Dr. Peters, whom he met in Cairo, told him that he was helped in prospecting for goldfields by the mystic, influence of monkeys, who were his " good friends "—the only " good friends," says the author, that Dr. Peters ever made in Africa. Mr. Cumberland's tale of a tiger-skin and the " subjective vision " that grew up round it is excellent.
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