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The Society for Psychical Research. By Edward T. Bennett. (Brimley

Johnson. ls.)-Mr. Bennett gives an interesting account of the objects of the Society, illustrating what he says by some remarkable extracts from the testimony which it has collected. The "psychical" subjects dealt with are "Thought Transference or Telepathy," " Suggestion and Hypnotism," "The Subliminal Self," "Apparitions and Hauntings." Some of the conclusions arrived at bearing on telepathy, and "the realm of undeveloped and unrecognised Faculty in Man," will be generally accepted. Others-viz., that there is a basis of fact in the stories of hauntings and apparitions, and that there are intelli- gences other than living men-will be disputed by many. This pamphlet puts some of the most powerful evidence in a short compass.