ther it was
coincidence, or transference of vivid thought, I leave to the judgment
of others.

"I had left Leeds for the Isle of Jersey (though my dear wife was only
just recovering from a nervous fever) to fulfil an important engagement.
On a Good Friday, myself and a party of friends in several carriages
drove round a large portion of the island, coming back to St. Heliers
from Bouley Bay, taking tea about seven o'clock at Captain ----'s villa.
The party broke up about ten o'clock, and the weather being fine and
warm, I walked to the house of a banker who entertained me. Naturally,
my evening thoughts reverted to my home, and after reading a few verses
in my Testament, I walked about the room until nearly eleven, thinking
of my wife, and breathing the prayer, 'God bless you.'

"I might not have recalled all the circumstances, save for the letter I
received by the next post from her, with the query put in: 'Tell me what
you were _doing within a few minutes of eleven o'clock_ on Friday
evening? I will tell you in my next why I ask; for something happened to
me.' In the middle of the week the letter came, and these words in
it:--'I had just awoke from a slight repose, when I saw you in your
night-dress bend over me, and utter the words, "God bless you!" I seemed
also to feel your breath as you kissed me. I felt no alarm, but
comforted, went off into a gentle sleep, and have been better ever
since.' I replied that this was an exact representation of my mind and
words."

Here there was apparently the instantaneous reproduction in Leeds of the
image, and not only of the image but of the words spoken in Jersey, a
hundred miles away. The theory that the phantasmal body is occasionally
detachable from the material frame accounts for this in a fashion, and
that is more than can be said for any other hypothesis that has yet been
stated. In neither of these cases did an early death follow the
apparition of the dual body.

_An Unknown Double Identified._

Neither of these stories, however, is so wonderful as the following
narrative, which is forwarded to me by a correspondent in North Britain,
who received the statement from a Colonel now serving in India on the
Bengal Staff, whose name is communicated on the understanding that it is
not to be made public:--

"In the year 1860 I was stationed at Banda, in Bundelcund, India. There
was a good deal of sickness there at the time, and I was deputed along
with a medical office