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Mind-Reading or Muscle-Reading . [February 
“ To the Editor of the ‘ Sussex Daily News/ 
“ Sir, 
“ With reference to the correspondence which has 
been going on in your columns relative to ‘thought-reading,’ 
may I be allowed in a few words to state my experience ? 
Having seen and heard Mr. Bishop during his first visit to 
Brighton I determined to try the question for myself. Being 
in London soon after, and mentioning to the friends with 
whom I was staying what I had witnessed, it was proposed 
that we should attempt the experiment. Accordingly I was 
blindfolded and left the room. Whilst I was absent a reel 
of black cotton was secreted in a flower-pot near the 
window. On pressing the hand of the gentleman who had 
secreted it against my forehead, and requesting him to 
think of the objedt he had hidden, I saw plainly with my 
blindfolded eyes, as though in a dream, the figure of a reel 
of black cotton floating before me. I then told him to think 
of where he had hidden it, and I saw and led him to a 
bureau at the opposite end of the room to the window. 
This he said was wrong, but on enquiry I found that he had 
originally intended to have placed it there, but had altered 
his mind. Does not this, then, seem to point to the same 
thing that Mr. Bishop spoke of last Wednesday — of uncon- 
scious thoughts passing through the mind ? In the next 
experiment a china plate was placed on the table. When 
I was brought in I saw it vividly, and led up to it, laying 
my hands over it, and I described it as a round mat, 
thicker at the edges than within, and with a dark rim, 
which was just the description of the plate, which plate, 
by-the-bye, I had never seen before. We then tried the 
question of localising a pain. Being blindfolded, and 
holding my friend’s left hand against my forehead, I told 
him to imagine a pain. Almost immediately I felt a pecu- 
liar, indescribable sensation on the right side of my face, 
and told him that he was thinking of a pain there. He 
was, in fadt, imagining a violent attack of neuralgia in the 
right upper jaw. Other experiments were tried, and have 
been tried since, some successful, some unsuccessful ; but 
I have seen quite enough to convince me that there is 
truth in it. I don’t pretend to offer a reason, but I would 
say to those who disbelieve it — f try for yourselves.’ All 
do not possess the power. I was the only one of a party 
of six or seven who was thus affedted, but, doubtless, 
there are very many who could perform precisely the 
