IDENTITY TESTS IN ALLEGRO SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATIONS.
(To THE EDITOR Or THE " 3PECTATOR."1 SIR,—I read with interest Mr. W. W. Reid's letter in your issue of March 12th on the subject of alleged spiritual communica- tions, and therefore followed his example by putting my library, to the test. Curiously enough—ooincidence it might be called— the test was no less successful than his or than Lady Glen- connees. On p. 14, three-quarters down the page of the eighth book on the third shelf, counting from right to left, was the following message:—
" To a man of his rugged temperament hypocrisy- was im- possible; he was no less incapable of cringing or fawning to any living being. Conscious of his own strength and his excep- tional abilities, he was given to a bluntness of speech that to servile minds was offensive. A parvenu does not like to be slighted, nor an ignorant man reminded of his ignorance."
Whether Lady Glenconner would or could take this as a message from her son I cannot say. The passage refers to the late Mr. George Sala, and is an extract from a privately printed- souvenir of the Savage Club. The other conditions attached to the alleged message were also fulfilled in my shelf. Two books from that out of which the above extract is taken is II. N. Stanley's In Darkest Africa, which certainly " tells of great spaces, large great spaces," &c., whereas there is " something round connected with the book," for not only is there a some- what curious circular device on the cover, but also the frontis- piece is a reproduction of the menu card of the Savage dinner, on March 11th, 1916—and it is surrounded by wine-glasses.—
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