THOUGHT-READING.
[TO THE EDITOR OF ma "SPECTAT010] Sra,—Is not the explanation of "the evidence of extraordinary events" to be found by considering the phenomena known at present as " thought-reading "?
Of course, if there is anything at all in the "Willing Game," it can be played without contact. So played, it seems to show that by a mere mental effort, apart from all suggestion of physi- cal contact, one person can affect another. Does not this con- tain the secret of personal influence, which is the effect we experience when within the range of a strong or peculiarly sympathetic mind ? And may we not extend this further, and say that the thought of dear relatives far away may become so intensified and so energetic in the presence of death, that it may actually affect those relatives, and produce an impression which they interpret in connection with their absent friends P—I am,
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