PASSING THROUGH THE FIRE.
[TO TRH EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR:]
SIR,—Since writing my article about "Passing through the Fire," commented on in the Spectator of August 8th, I have received a letter from a gentleman of my acquaintance who met Home, the medium, in 1860. He professes an entire disbelief in any " supernatural " explanation of what he saw. Home took live coals out of the fire in his hands, and therewith burned the tip of one of my informant's fingers ; "the scar is alive to testify to it." Home was not burned. This appears to dis- pose of the theory of hallucination in the observer. The fact that the naked hand may be dipped for a second into molten metal unharmed, does not, to myself, seem strictly analogous to the fire-walk, as reported.—I am, Sir, ezc., Kilberry, Torbert, August 13th. ANDREW LANG.
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