from which the forms loom up which appear upon
the photographic plate. It may be that I mistake an analogy for an
explanation, but I put the theory on record for what it is worth.

B

A PARTICULAR INSTANCE

I have been in touch with a series of events in America lately, and can
vouch for the facts as much as any man can vouch for facts which did
not occur to himself. I have not the least doubt in my own mind that
they are true, and a more remarkable double proof of the continuity of
life has, I should think, seldom been published. A book has recently
been issued by Harpers, of New York, called "The Seven Purposes." In
this book the authoress, Miss Margaret Cameron, describes how she
suddenly developed the power of automatic writing. She was not a
Spiritualist at the time. Her hand was controlled and she wrote a
quantity of matter which was entirely outside her own knowledge or
character. Upon her doubting whether her sub-conscious self might in
some way be producing the writing, which was partly done by planchette,
the script was written upside down and from right to left, as though
the writer was seated opposite. Such script could not possibly be
written by the lady herself. Upon making enquiry as to who was using
her hand, the answer came in writing that it was a certain Fred
Gaylord, and that his object was to get a message to his mother. The
youth was unknown to Miss Cameron, but she knew the family and
forwarded the message, with the result that the mother came to see her,
examined the evidence, communicated with the son, and finally,
returning home, buried all her evidences of mourning, feeling that the
boy was no more dead in the old sense than if he were alive in a
foreign country.

There is the first proof of preternatural agency, since Miss Cameron
developed so much knowledge which she could not have normally acquired,
using many phrases and ideas which were characteristic of the deceased.
But mark the sequel. Gaylord was merely a pseudonym, as the matter was
so private that the real name, which we will put as Bridger, was not
disclosed. A few months after the book was published Miss Cameron
received a letter from a stranger living a thousand miles away. This
letter and the whole correspondence I have seen. The stranger, Mrs.
Nicol, says that as a test she would like to ask whether the real name
given as Fred Gaylord in the book is not Fred Bridger, as she had
psychic reasons for be