nd Bovet. Mademoiselle Dolleans
carefully watched the girl for a fortnight, and never let her out of
her sight, but could not discover any fraud. After about a month
the maid was sent home, where she was not molested. Naturally we
see in her the half-insane cunning of hysteria, but that explanation
does not apply to little Master Dolleans, a baby of three months
old. The curse fell on _him_: however closely his parents watched
him, pots and pans showered into his cradle, the narrator himself
saw a miscellaneous collection of household furniture mysteriously
amassed there.

The Abeille of Chartres held this letter over, till two of its
reporters had visited the scene of action, and interviewed doctors,
priests, and farmers, who all attested the facts. Happily, in this
case, an exorcism by a priest proved efficacious. At Cideville,
holy water and consecrated medals were laughed at by the sprite,
who, by the way, answered to the name of Robert.

PRESBYTERIAN GHOST HUNTERS.

Religious excitement and hallucination. St. Anthony. Zulu
catechumens. Haunted Covenanters. Strange case of Thomas Smeaton.
Law's 'Memorialls'. A deceitful spirit. Examples of insane and
morbidly sensitive ghosts. 'Le revenant qui s'accuse s'excuse.'
Raising the devil in Irvine. Mode of evocation. Wodrow. His
account of Margaret Lang, and Miss Shaw of Bargarran. The unlucky
Shaws. Lord Torphichen's son. Cases from Wodrow. Lord Middleton's
story. Haunted house. Wraiths. Lord Orrery's ghost no
metaphysician. The Bride of Lammermoor. Visions of the saints.
Their cautiousness. Ghost appearing to a Jacobite. Ghost of a
country tradesman. Case of telepathy known to Wodrow. Avenging
spectres. Lack of evidence. Tale of Cotton Mather.

In spite of a very general opinion to the opposite effect, it is not
really easy to determine in what kind of age, and in what conditions
of thought and civilisation, ghosts will most frequently appear, and
ghostly phenomena will chiefly abound. We are all ready to aver
that 'ghaists and eldritch fantasies' will be most common 'in the
dark ages,' in periods of ignorance or superstition. But research
in mediaeval chronicles, and in lives of the saints makes it
apparent that, while marvels on a large and imposing scale were
frequent, simple ordinary apparitions and haunted houses occur
comparatively seldom. Perhaps they were too common to be thought
worth noticing, yet they are noti