any
'spiritual' theory, and conceives that, she is dealing with purely
psychological curiosities, her evidence is the better worth notice,
and may be compared with that of a crystal-seer for whose evidence
the present writer can vouch, as far as one mortal may vouch for
that of another.

Miss X., the writer in the Psychical Proceedings, has been able to
see pictures in crystals and other polished surfaces, or, indeed,
independently of these, since childhood. She thinks that the
visions are:--

1. After-images, or recrudescent memories (often memories of things
not consciously noted).

2. Objectivations of ideas or images, consciously or unconsciously
present to the mind.

3. Visions, possibly telepathic or clairvoyant, implying
acquirement of knowledge by supernormal means. The first class is
much the most frequent in this lady's experience. She can
occasionally refresh her memory by looking into the crystal.

The other seer, known to the writer, cannot do this, and her
pictures, as far as she knows, are purely fanciful. Perhaps an
'automatic writer' might interpret them, in the rather dubious
manner of that art. As far as the 'scryer' knows, however, her
pictures of places and people are not revivals of memory. For
example, she sees an ancient ship, with a bird's beak for prow, come
into harbour, and behind it a man carrying a crown. This is a mere
fancy picture. On one occasion she saw a man, like an Oriental
priest, with a white caftan, contemplating the rise and fall of a
fountain of fire: suddenly, at the summit of the fire, appeared a
human hand, pointing downwards, to which the old priest looked up.
This was in August, 1893. Later in the month the author happened to
take up, at Loch Sheil, Lady Burton's Life of Sir Richard Burton.
On the back of the cover is a singular design in gold. A woman in
widow's weeds is bowing beneath rays of light, over which appears a
human hand, marked R. F. B. on the wrist. The author at once wrote
asking his friend the crystal-gazer if she had seen this work of
art, which might have unconsciously suggested the picture. The
lady, however, was certain that she had not seen the Life of Sir
Richard Burton, though her eye, of course, may have fallen on it in
a bookseller's shop, while her mind did not consciously take it in.
If this was a revival of a sub-conscious memory in the crystal, it
was the only case of that process in her experience.

On the other hand