The Daily Telegraph, or one of its correspondents, has had
a vision quite as extraordinary as that of Bernardette Soubirous. He has seen "spirit-faces," and describes the facts quite seriously in Thursday's paper. Of course, he puts in at the end his doubt as to whether he was or was not taken in, but his tone is that of a believer. Some little girl, a medium, seems to have got into a small cupboard, and been there tied up hand and foot by "the spirits," the spectators carefully sealing up the knots, to be sure she didn't do any magic-lanthorn work on her own account. Then she fell into a trance, and then spirit- faces appeared in the mouth of the cupboard under a strong lamp- light. The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph see= to think the child-medium had nothing to do with the appearances, except lending something—in the way of "atmosphere," we think it is called — to the spirits during her sleep. He seems to have patted one of the "spirit faces," but to have been told not to squeeze it. As the gentleman who describes the séance does not give his own name, nor that of the medium, nor that of any of his com- panions, his evidence, as evidence, is a good deal worse -than that of Bernardette Soubirous, which, again, is not evidence on which any but ardently prepossessed minds could accept anything.
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