The personal experience of the editor of The Review of Reviews which is recorded in the following pages is, in many ways, startling. There has been such a volume of testimony from persons of established reputation, whose veracity is unquestioned and whose judgment in every day matters is considered excellent that few, who are acquainted with the present evidence, have little doubt as to the existence of the phenomena. A prominent Roman Catholic clergyman, who recently gave a series of lectures on Psychical Research before the Catholic clergymen of Boston said, that to deny the existence of the phenomena, far from being a mark of superior intelligence, rather showed the ignorance of the person as to what scientific investigators were doing.

Many of these investigators do not agree with Mr. Stead in his interpretation of the phenomena but if one admits that he has recorded his experiences accurately his conclusions seem to be the most plausible.

The Editor.
Boston, Feb. 1, 1909.