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able to give you names and particulars at present respecting the 
Berkeley Square ghost, I vouch for the accuracy of the faCts as 
narrated, and you are at liberty to use my name if you think 
proper.” It is added that in each case a coroner’s inquest was 
held, the verdiCt being that half blasphemous and wholly foolish 
survival “ died by the visitation of God.” 
Miss Houghton gives it as her opinion that the victims did 
not die of fright, but had been literally murdered by malignant 
spirits. 
We should feel much obliged to any one who could furnish us 
with either a confirmation or explanation, or a contradiction of 
this unpleasant story. There are several other “ ghost stories” 
in the book, though none of so serious, or we may add so 
definite, a character. We have also some notice, of the 
“ elementaries,”- — beings unconnected with man in anyway, and 
described as of a lower grade. 
The Slade trial is not overlooked. On this affair we have 
already pronounced our opinion, and need not again return to it 
further than to say that it has been out-Heroded by the attack 
upon Professor Ferrier. There is here (p. 257) a curious incident. 
A stationer named Lake, in Great Russell Street, had supplied 
Slade with slates. The prosecution, having heard of this “ came 
to subpoena him to give evidence. When they found that the 
slate were just common ones with no contrivances of any kind, 
they did not summon him. All they had wanted was proofs of 
fraud.” 
A letter to Miss Houghton from a Rev. Mr. Barrett supplies 
further proof how Spiritualism is allying itself with one of the 
saddest fanaticisms of the day. He says “ vivisection among 
other iniquities will be put down by terrible judgments from 
God!” . The same writer gives a new remedy for illness, more 
powerful than mesmerism, to wit, solarised sugar. The finest 
powdered loaf sugar is exposed to the sun on plates for two 
successive days, at the same time each day, and is then pre- 
served, covered with silk in the dark. Three teaspoonfuls daily 
are to be taken for five or six weeks. 
We must pronounce this book, like its companion volume, 
worthy the careful study of the psychologist. 
The Relation of Brain |£o Mind. A leCture delivered to the 
Dialectic Society of the University of Glasgow. By John 
Cleland, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy. 
Glasgow : Maclehose and Sons. 
We have here in brief compass an exceedingly able summary of 
the present results of modern science on one of the most important 
