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The other works which we have to mention fall into an 

 altogether different category. Immortality, an Essay in Dis- 

 covery co-ordinating Scientific, Psychical, and Biblical Research, 

 by Burnett H. Streeter, A. Clutton-Brock, C. W. Emmet, 

 J. A. Hadfield, and the author of Pro Christo et Ecclesia (Mac- 

 millan), is chiefly of interest on account of the authors' names. 

 They have adopted what they call the " group method " of 

 attacking spiritualistic problems ; and by " living contact of 

 mind with mind," they have achieved a belief in personal 

 immortality, which apparently is stronger than when they 

 considered the matter separately. It is, of course, well known 

 that belief may be enormously fortified by suggestion, and the 

 individual sceptic who has survived the bolus of Sir Oliver 

 Lodge will scarcely succumb to the system of polypharmacy 

 here practised upon him. The book bears valuable testimony 

 to three propositions : ( 1 ) That the writers all believe in Personal 

 Immortality ; (2) that they are of opinion that the veil which 

 hangs between this world and the next is not impenetrable ; 

 (3) that these doctrines are by a fortunate coincidence wholly 

 in accordance with their natural sentiments. Although these 

 propositions are here well established, and although the book 

 is written with much grace and classical knowledge, the reader 

 who was previously unconvinced that the authors' views were 

 correct will in all probability still remain unconvinced. 



A further work, Telepathy, Genuine and Fraudulent, by 

 W. W. Baggally (Methuen), devotes Part I (Genuine Telepathy) 

 to cases in which the author has not yet discovered the modus 

 operandi ; and Part II (Fraudulent Telepathy) to those in 

 which he has discovered the modus operandi. He feels " bound 

 to state that, in spite of initial improbability," his experiences 

 have convinced him that the telepathic faculty does exist. We, 

 on the other hand, also feel bound to state that they have not 

 convinced us. 



Finally, there has been published a work called Creative 

 Psychics, by Fred Henkel (Golden Press, Los Angeles, Cali- 

 fornia), which is addressed to " all who foster . . . sex unfold- 

 ment as fruitions of the procreative urge ; who see in Creative 

 Generation, Regeneration, and Art Generation ; who value 

 the divine importance of developing the inherent creative and 

 procreative powers." Now we cannot honestly confess that 

 we do foster sex-unfoldment as fruitions of the procreative 



