CAN TELEPATHY EXPLAIN?
Can Telepathy Explain? By Minot J. Savage. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 3s. 6d.)—Mr. Savage relates a number of incidents of what is commonly called the spiritualistic kind. Some of these have occurred to himself. Of others he has had evidence which seemed to him trustworthy. It is difficult to select from such narra- tives. But here is one of the simplest and most natural kind. A little girl was dying. She had made a disposition of her little belongings, giving one treasure to Jenny, a playmate of her own age. As she began to sink she said that she saw the faces of dead relatives and friends, her grandfather and grandmother, for instance. Then she called out with surprise : " Why, papa, why didn't you tell me that Jenny had, gone? Jenny is come to meet me." Jenny had died some days before, but the fact had been kept from the child lest it should hinder recovery. Mr. Savage has had experiences of communications from the dead. On one occasion he was put into communication with his father. The
medium described the dead man accurately, and added: "He calls you Judson.' " "Judson" is his second name, given at the request of a half-sister, and his father had used it during his boy- hood, but had dropped it later on. To every one else he had been always " Minot." These personal narratives, of which there are many, are very curious, not the less weighty because they are sometimes of no very great intrinsic importance. This is not the place to discuss the explanation of these phenomena or to test the strength of the evidence ; but it is difficult to believe that tele- pathy can altogether explain them. Indeed, some seem insoluble puzzles except on the theory of the continued existence of the dead.
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