ITo TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR']
SIR,—The author of some stories of "The Seen and the -Unseen" would feel the strictures of your critic very just had any serious thought that a spirit raised, as we all hope at least, into a larger atmosphere and higher life, whether of joy or suffering, could occupy itself with petty vengeance for an old offence been in his mind. I have no wish to use scientific language which I hardly understand; but may not the fancy be permitted to create a projection from the mind once involved in tragic scenes, a lingering shadow rather of what has been, than a reality of spiritual action ? I think Lord Lytton puts forth some such idea, if I remember rightly, in his wonderful tale of "The Haunted and the Haunters." The question is too curious to be treated in a few words ; neither have I the knowledge nor the skill to do it, but simply make the suggestion in defence of the writer.—I am, Sir, &c.,
M.
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