to your face, and its mouth is open as
if anticipating a lump of sugar. From the marks on its body I should
say it has been killed by being run over?"

Again Mr. Hamar was correct. "What you say is absolutely true," the
gentleman replied; "I had a dog named Peg. I was greatly attached to
it, and it was run over in Piccadilly by a motor cyclist. I hate the
very sight of a motor bicycle."

After a brief interval of awestruck silence a voice from the gallery
called out--

"You are in league with him!"

Then the man in the stalls stood up, and essayed to speak; but his
voice was drowned in a perfect tornado of applause. He had no need--he
was instantly recognized--he was J---- B----. With a few more examples
of clairvoyance Mr. Hamar continued to entertain his audience for half
an hour or so, by the end of which time, we have no hesitation in
saying that every one was convinced that he actually saw what, he
said, he saw.

The second part of the programme was entirely in the hands of Mr.
Curtis, who now came forward with a bow. "Ladies and gentlemen," he
said; "you all know that man is complex--that he is composed of mind
and matter, the material and immaterial. I now propose to give you a
physical demonstration of this fact. Will twelve of the audience
kindly come up on the stage and sit around me, so that you may feel
quite certain that I have here no mechanical devices to assist
me?"--And amongst other well-known people who responded to Mr.
Curtis's request, were Lord Bayle, Sir Charles Tenningham and the
Right Hon. John Blaine, M.P. Having arranged these twelve volunteers
in a semi-circle at the back of the stage, Mr. Curtis, standing in the
centre of the stage, again addressed his audience. "Ladies and
gentlemen," he said; "the secret of separating the mind--or what
Spiritualists, who love to bolster up their pretended knowledge of the
other world by the invention of pretentious nomenclature, call the
'ethical ego'--from the body, lies in intense concentration. If you
wish to acquire the power, practise concentration--concentrate on
being in a certain place. If nothing happens at first, don't be
discouraged, but keep on trying, and a time will come when you will
suddenly leave your body, in a form, which is the exact counterpart of
the body you have left. You will visit the place whereon you are
concentrating. Perhaps the best method of practising projection is to
put your forehead against a door or wall, and con