[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Might I give my experience in testing the directions given by Lady Glenconner's medium? Your previous correspondents have discovered passages that might apply in one way or another to Bim. In my own case the " message" would serve very well as one direct to myself. It is necessary to explain that my family consists of one little girl of two and a-half years. The third shelf, eighth book, counting from right to left, produced Poems by J. B. Selkirk. Page 14 contained sixteen lines of verse, the last four of which (" three-quarters down the page ") were, as you may suppose, received " with the laughter of instant recognition." They were: "Lord! hear me, as in prayer I wait: Thou givest all; guard Thou my pearl; And, when Thou countest at the Gate Thy jewels, count my little girl."
Prominent on the cover of the book was "something round," in the form of a publisher's trade mark, a laurel wreath enclosed in a ring, larger than a half-crown. On the same shelf was Lord Avebury's The Beauties of Nature, which has a chapter of thirty pages on " The Starry Heavens." Had such a " message " been offered to me as a proof of a friend's identity it could not have been better. Tested on another bookcase, the book produced was Carlyle's French Revolution, Vol. III., which on p. 14, in the bottom quarter, had the sentence: "And he, alas, answers mere negatory incoherences, panic interjections." Might not that be taken as a fair description of such supposed communications? The " something round " was provided by a small, but almost perfectly round, stain on the cover; and, as in the case of another of your corre- spondents, there stood immediately above the book a volume of Keats with the famous lines on stars.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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