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explanation of this last performance in the prenatal move- 

 ments of the foetus within the maternal body. This seems 

 to me doubtful ; besides, it must be remembered that this 

 prevision of Lola's was a double one, as it concerned both 

 the number and the sex of the puppies (autoscopia ?). 

 The fact that the sex of the puppies was foretold almost 

 correctly does not eliminate all doubt. And the authoress 

 gives sufficient details on the experiment to make us regard 

 it as genuine, until we have proof to the contrary. 



Many other manifestations of Lola's betray very 

 clearly a subliminal relationship between herself and 

 her mistress (or perhaps between herself and other 

 persons), and so I do not see that there is any reason 

 for us to doubt that Miss Kindermann was really 

 surprised at the replies which she obtained. 



I could cite at length : I am content, however, to 

 remind the reader of the many replies of the dog which 

 reveal quite clearly the feeling of the authoress towards 

 the dog itself ,as e.g.," I know you, alas, so little "; or again, 

 " Show constancy in your love for me," etc ; then, again, 

 the words never pronounced before in presence of the 

 dog (this makes me think of the famous " Urseele " of 

 Rolf) ; the things said by Lola, but not known by her 

 mistress, and then found true. . . . 



Finally I must allude to the " discovery " made by 

 Lola that the odours of the human body reveal the 

 state of the human mind displeasure, jealousy, lie 

 (sic) ; on which the authoress observes (very justly, 

 in a certain sense), that these experiments make one 

 think of the well-known theories of the late Prof. 

 Jaegar of Stockholm. ... I am in agreement with 

 her on that point, because I, too, have read the " Ent- 

 deckung der Seele " by that author ; as I suppose she, 

 too, had. I am inclined to think that in her case (as 

 she was experimenting with a dog) it was only natural 



