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whatsoever. Mr. X. sits in a chair witli his back to 

 me (or any suitable person) ; he is at one side of a 

 room and I am at the other. There need be no other 

 p)erson in the room. I take a pack of cards, shuffle 

 it, look at one card, concentrate my mind upon it, and 

 say simply tlie one word ' Now ! ' Mr. X. at the 

 other side of the room, with his back to me (or blind- 

 folded) names the card in detail, thus, ' Queen of 

 Hearts." And so we proceed through the whole 

 pack. The only word spoken is ' Now ! ' Mr. X. 

 never gets all the cards right ; frequently there are 

 mistakes, but the majority of the cards are named 

 correctly. To anyone who has performed such experi- 

 ments as these, time after time, there can be no doubt 

 about the existence of telepathy, and that it merits a 

 place in the functions of the unconscious mind ... its 

 exact method of action is as yet veiled from us." 

 * * * * * 



With his pilot-house windows screened by heavy 

 canvas which effectively shut out the surrounding 

 view. Commander Norton of the Semmcs, guided only 

 by the sound from electric waves thrown out by a sub- 

 merged cable, recently piloted his vessel from near the 

 Ambrose Lighthouse for sixteen miles along the Channel 

 of New York Harbour to Fort I^afaj'ette in the Narrows. 

 The feat marked a successful test of an invention by 

 which it is hoped to enable liners and warships to make 

 their way into harbour to their Hudson or East River 

 docks or anchorage, in defiance of the densest fog or 

 the darkest nights made darker by falling snow. 

 ***** 



No better time for the experiment could have been 

 hit upon, as the importance of the invention is im- 

 pressed on shipping men and landsmen alike by the 

 fact that recently the Atlantic Fleet was held up for 

 three days outside Sandy Hook by a fog, which also 

 delayed Transatlantic liners for a considerable time. 

 The cable at the bottom of the fairway was charged 

 from the fort. Two electric coils had been set above 

 the water-line of the Semmcs on each side of the bow, 

 and wires extended from them into an amplifier on 

 the bridge. F'rom the amplifier, telephone receivers 

 had been carried to various parts of the vessel, and 

 with these clamped to their ears sevtral persons were 

 able to hear the sounds given by the cables. 

 ***** 



As the destroyer approached the latter at a sixteen 

 knot speed a faint clicking of the code word " Navy " 

 was heard. It grew louder first on the port side and 

 then on the starboard side as the vessel steered to left 

 or right of the cable, and Commander Norton had no 

 trouble in following the line through the sounds, which 

 increased in volume or grew fainter according to 

 whether the Semmcs was headed along it or from it. 



The .Ambrose Channel is 700 yards inside, but in 

 places the shores are as much as 5,000 yards apart, 

 so that in foggy weather a large vessel risks going 

 aground if it ventures to thread the fairway. It is 

 understood that the invention will be recommended 

 for adoption, and that the Navy will lay similar cables 

 in other harbour entrances, afterwards turning them 

 over to the lighthouse service. It is estimated that 

 the cable will save thousands of pounds now caused by 

 delays to shipping through weather conditions. 



Land and Sea in Greek 

 Life— II 



By W. R. Halliday, B.A., B.Litt. 



Professor of Ancient History in the UniversHu o/ Liverpool 



[Continued from the January No., p. 18) 



In the first part of this paper we noticed how the 

 ancestors of the Greeks ceased to be a pastoral and 

 became an agricultural people. They ceased to reckon 

 their wealth in oxen, and assessed their incomes in 

 bushels of produce. Their diet underwent a corre- 

 sponding change. The Homeric chieftains ate large 

 quantities of meat, but the Greeks of historical times 

 lived almost entirely upon cereals, vegetables, and fish. 

 Meat was only eaten when there was a sacrifice ; and 

 when Xenophon's men, marching through the desert 

 to Cunaxa,* were obliged for lack of other food to 

 adopt a meat diet, they grumbled at what they felt 

 to be a serious hardship. But though Greece is em- 

 phatically not a land of pasture, neither is it naturally 

 a corn-producing country.'' The area of arable land 

 in its little plains is very limited ; above the limestone 

 there is but a shiillow layer of soil at best, and this is 

 light and stony and j-ields but a poor return. In 

 consequence, when the adoption of a peaceful settled 

 existence resulted in a rapidly increasing population, 

 there was soon no longer sufficient land for evcrj'one 

 to be a farmer ; and, more serious still, the land belong- 

 ing to the community no longer produced sufficient 

 corn to feed all its members. Two obvious solutions 

 of the economic problem suggest themselves at once : 

 either the area of the land of the community must be 



' 401 B.C. 



' Baedeker's statistics for Modem Greece {I909)give8 percent, 

 pasture, 18 percent, arable, 9 per cent, forest, 65 per cent, moun- 

 tain land. The area of forest was larger in antiquity, and de- 

 forestation has no doubt assisted erosion and diminished the 

 rainfall. 



