experiments, a correspondent writes me:

"They are not professionals and charge no fee. A nominal charge is
made for prints.... I do not know of any one who has sat with the
Crewe circle who has not been satisfied that fraud, at any rate,
will not explain these things. Those who have _not_ been and who
know nothing of the subject, say just the opposite.... Many of the
results in themselves rule out faking. I have had many sittings
with these mediums and have not the slightest doubt whatever
regarding their absolute genuineness. In fact, in some of the tests
I have carried out with them, faking would have been quite
impossible, even had they been desirous of tricking. I speak as an
amateur photographer of many years' standing, in touch with
photography every working day of his life."

Several photographs obtained at this now-famous Crewe circle are
reproduced herewith. Certainly it is true that such photographs might be
obtained by means of double exposure, double printing and other devices;
but the point is that we have the word of an expert photographer that
they were _not_ produced in this manner; and when once their genuine
character is admitted, they assume very great interest, no matter what
view we may care to take as to the results.

Miss Estelle Stead, daughter of the late W. T. Stead, writing of her
experiences with this same group of psychics, says:

"I have several times, since he passed on, obtained photos of my
father on the same plate I took with me, _under the most rigid
test-conditions_--on plates which I have never let out of my sight,
save for the few moments they were in the camera for my photo to be
taken.

"I also obtained a splendid photo of my brother, who passed over in
1907. He promised that before I went for the sitting he would be
photographed instead of Father, if he could manage it. I said
nothing of this to the lady who sat with me for the photograph to
be taken, or to the photographer. I put my own marked plate in the
slide myself, and stood by while it was developed. My brother's
face appeared quite as plainly as mine, and has been recognized by
many who knew him in life. He was seldom photographed while here,
and certainly _never_ with his head in exactly the position it is
in this photograph, received nine years after his death.

"It is only