Spirit Drawings. A Personal Narrative. By W. M. Wilkinson. Second
edition. (F. Pitman.)—This gentleman tells us that soon after
the death of one of his sons his wife and he wore endowed with a strange power. If they sat down to a table with a pencil and piece of paper their hands were constrained to draw flowers or write, and that they did not the least know what the product would be till they saw it on the paper. These communications purport to come from their son, a spirit in bliss. If so, spirits in bliss talk a great deal of nonsense, and a great deal more, which, though not nonsense, has the same unconnected meaningless character as the sermons of the illiterate preachers who infest the parks on a Sunday. Accepting, therefore, Mr. Wilkinson's statements as true, we prefer to set them aside as facts we cannot account for rather than adopt an explanation of them which is more marvellous than the facts themselves.
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