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THIS is a new edition, in the Contemporary Science series, of a book which still remains, after twenty-one years from its first appearance, one of the best introductions to the subject (see review in NATURE, December 6, 1894). The illustrative cases have now inevitably a rather ancient history appearance, and many of them are duplicated in other books, such as Myers's “Human Personality” and Sir Oliver Lodge's “Survival of Man”; it may be urged, therefore, that an entirely fresh treatment of the subject, with due attention to the experiments of Miss Miles and Miss Ramsden and to the S.P.R. cross-correspondences, would have been preferable to a rechauffé. Moreover, the author being dead, various slips occur: the American S.P.R. is no longer a branch of the English society; the latter's publisher is now the firm of Maclehose, not R. Brimley Johnson; Dr. Sidis's name is wrongly spelt on p. 260, as Sir Joseph Barnby's is in the index; and there is an inventive misprint of “Boding” for “Bodily” on p. 459, in the reference to Myers's “Human Personality.” But these are not very important matters.
Apparitions and Thought-Transference: An Examination of the Evidence for Telepathy.
By F. Podmore. New and enlarged edition. Pp. xviii + 467. (London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., 1915.) Price 6s.
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H., J. Apparitions and Thought-Transference: An Examination of the Evidence for Telepathy . Nature 96, 591 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/096591a0
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