in various directions, and it did so, before those thoughts had assumed the shape of words in my own mind.

"During a portion of the séance, as many as four distinct kinds of raps were heard at the same time, and as many people were putting questions and receiving answers at the same moment. When requested, the raps were produced on the walls, on the ceiling, on our chairs, which latter were distinctly shaken by them; and on several occasions, the whole vibrated sufficiently to simultaneously attract the attention of every

one.

"Several of us, while seated in our chairs, were suddenly twisted round; and subsequent experiment showed that it required a good vigorous effort to perform a like operation by the hands. These twistings occurred to those who were far from, as well as those who were near to Mr. Home. The séance continued till about 11 o'clock; Mr. and Mrs. Home, as well as Mrs. A., pronounced it unusually successful, and expressed surprise at such a display of force at my first investigation.

"On returning home Mrs. Varley and I compared notes, I found that she had put a great many questions mentally and received answers as rapidly as I had.

"It was between 12 and 1 o'clock when we reached our dwelling at the other end of London, five or six miles from Sloane Street. Before retiring I requested Mrs. Varley to sit down with me in the drawing room, and once more think over carefully what we had seen together with the tests we had employed to guard against delusions; while so engaged, although five miles away from the medium, the sounds or raps commenced upon the walls of our own house.

"The next evening I received a letter from Mr. Home, in which he informed us of the fact that we had heard these sounds in our own house.

"I saw him shortly afterwards and asked him how he knew this, and he said that the same power which had produced the phenomena at his house, had produced the sounds in my own room, and had informed him of the fact and instructed him to write to me as an additional evidence.

"Second séance at my own house, at Beckenham, Kent.

"Present:--D. D. Home, a lady, a city accountant, a merchant, a gentleman, the first officer of a ship, Mrs. Varley, and myself.

"I purchased this house in the latter part of 1863 while it was in course of erection, and before any of the flooring was laid; I am therefore well acquainted with its internal structure.

"In the summer of 1864, I requested Mr. Home to keep his

Conservatory.

promise of giving me a séance at my own house, and I invited the people mentioned to meet him. He had never been in the house before.

"We had a great many phenomena similar to those already described; there were some, however, different from those I had seen in his house. During the course of the evening he became apparently nervous, and requested me to hold his hands, and said: 'Oh! look behind you'-and became somewhat alarmed.

"He then put both his legs over my left knee, and at his request I held both his legs between my legs, and grasped both his hands in my own. We all of us looked in the direction, which he indicated-there was a small side table close to the conservatory window, seven feet behind Mr. Home's back, Mr. Home and I being the nearest to it. We were seated thus:

"Shortly afterwards the side-table began to move. This table is mounted on casters, and it was driven up to me by some invisible means, no one being near it, and while I had hold of both Mr. Home's hands and legs. A large ottoman, capable of seating eight persons, was moved all over the room, and we were all driven by it up to the pianoforte.

"Imposture was impossible. Phenomena of this kind were abundant this evening. As many of them occurred in the dusk of the evening they hardly come within the scope of your demand, viz. under a "bright light.” I have witnessed the "physical phenomena " more than twenty times; but the higher psychical phenomena, which convey better proof to those who actually witness them than do the physical, have been witnessed by me more than a hundred times both in England and America.

"You may ask why I have not published this before. The answer is simple-you yourself know how all new things are received in this world of contention.

"I have endeavoured, whenever opportunity, health, and business would permit, to ascertain the nature of the force by which these phenomena are produced, but I have not progressed much farther at present than to find out the source whence the physical power is abstracted, viz., from the vital systems of those who are present, and especially from the medium. The part of the subject under discussion, therefore, is not yet ripe for publication.

"As to the phenomena themselves, there are numerous accounts on record-some excellently authenticated, both in this and the previous century. We are only now re-studying what has been investigated by the philosophers who lived 2,000 years ago; and when some good Greek or Latin scholar, who has made himself acquainted with the character of the phenomena which have been presenting themselves so numerously since the year 1848, will properly translate the writings of those great men, the world will find out that what is happening at the present time is only a new edition of an old page of history, studied by keen intelligences to an extent that will redound greatly to the credit of those good and clear-headed old sages, who seem to have risen far above the narrow-minded prejudices of their age, and to have investigated the matter under discussion to an extent in some respects transcending our present knowledge.

"I am, my dear Sir, very truly yours,
"(Signed)

"J. Tyndall, Esq., F.R.S.,

&c., &c., &c."

CROMWELL F. VARLEY.

Now here are specimens of some of the more ordinary phenomena. What has Mr. Tyndall to say to them? What would have been his tests? and where would they have come in? When the small table moved of itself to the large one, what could he have done beyond looking at it? When he asked mentally for the breast of his coat to be moved, what test would he have applied? Or does Faraday's "involuntary muscular action" account for these? Brewster would have got over the table moving by saying "it appeared to move." But what does Mr. Tyndall say? We fancy he will say that Mr. Varley's eyes and other senses deceived him. What proof is there of this assertion? Mr. Varley appears to have his senses in good order, and to make a good use of them. What evidence then has Mr. Tyndall that he cannot hear, and see, and feel? Mr. Tyndall must state his grounds for this large assumption of his, which in the absence of good grounds becomes itself incredible and absurd.

แ SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALISM.

"To the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette.

"Sir, I venture to doubt the logic of the dilemma stated by Dr. Tyndall in reference to a meeting with Mr. Home. 'The investigation can have but one of two results: either his phenomena will be proved delusive, or I shall be converted to the ranks of Spiritualism.'

"There is surely a third hypothesis tenable with respect to so-called spiritualistic phenomena; namely, that they are neither wholly delusive, nor entirely caused by "spirits," but that they are, in part at least, real, and, as far as they are so, to be accounted for by natural causes.

"It is because, if these phenomena are pronounced by competent authority not to be "delusive," I believe that their explanation will lead, not to Spiritualism, or a knowledge of the 'spirit world,' but to a greatly extended knowledge of the interaction of bodies on each other, and particularly of the correlations of physical and psychological forces that I, with many others, rejoice in the prospect of a scientific investigation of the assertions of Spiritualists.

"If, however, these phenomena are real and naturally explicable, their explanation will tax all the ingenuity, not of physicists only, but of biologists and psychologists.

"That, if real, these phenomena should, in the first stage of their investigation, be attributed to 'spirits' is evidently in accordance with that general historic law formulated by Comte, "I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,

"J. S. STUART GLENNIE.

"Athenæum Club, May 19, 1868."

This letter of Mr. Glennie's, which has not attracted any remark from the combatants, really contains the very truth of the matter, and supplies the main reason why these phenomena have been investigated by so many who have proved their truth. It is not investigation, however, which Professor Tyndall wants, but to have a fling at Spiritualism, and to turn it into ridicule. In this he has not only failed, but has made himself ridiculous.

Mr. G. H. Lewes wrote a long letter, the burden of which was that men of science were quite right to refuse to waste their valuable time in investigating the pretensions of mediums, and that "had the tone of Faraday's letter been ten times more offensive, it would have been no excuse for Mr. Home's declining his investigation." Such sentiments are hardly worthy of Mr. Lewes, and certainly it will require more than even his ability

to make them good. They appear to us to be the height of impudence and bold assertion.

The "men of science" don't like the same rules applied to themselves, which they insist on applying to Spiritualists, as is proved by the ferocity of the fight between Mr. Palgrave and Mr. Tyndall. The next letter is from Mr. Palgrave, in reply to Mr. Tyndall, and contains, in two full columns, some paragraphs which must have made Mr. Tyndall wince.

Referring to Mr. Tyndall's "unadvised" publication of the letter of Faraday, who might have said, "Save me from my friends," he proceeds :

"But for this injustice, if it be such, Professor Tyndall, by publishing the letter, by proclaiming it to be the product of the utmost coolness and deliberation,' and by endorsing its contents, is solely responsible. What his qualifications to act as the guardian of Faraday's fame, and as the interpreter of his thoughts, may be, it is for the scientific world at large to decide; whether, in fact, to succeed to Faraday's chair be the same things as to succeed to Faraday. These are things beyond me. But 'laymen' may fairly claim to express themselves on other points, and there are those who, reverencing Faraday in another spirit than that of a slavish hero-worship, remember him as he was a man above all things hating personal vanity, irritable arrogance, coterie worship, and rhetorical display; never prone to exaggerate the importance of the pursuits in which he was supreme, or think that they qualified him to dictate theology to others; not regarding himself as free from human fallibility, nor claiming exemption from ordinary rules of judgment, nor holding adulation honour; emphatically (if I may be allowed the pleasure of dedicating these insufficient words to so great a memory) a man of honour and scrupulous conscientiousness, a gentleman, and a Christian. Such a character presents an ideal of no easy attainment; but most of those who had the privilege of knowing Faraday, I hope, will judge my imperfect attempt to sketch it correct; and will agree that in the absence of these qualities, or of qualities analogous to them, even the profoundest attainments in science are entitled to no respect and possess but little value."

This closes the Pall Mall Gazette correspondence. Their leading article upon it calls for little remark. It is in the pretentiously moderate and very unfair tone sometimes adopted by that paper. It is obliged to give its judgment against the incautious but chivalric Tyndall; but thinks that, now that he says he will investigate in the ordinary scientific methods, Mr. Home has no excuse for evasion! The Pall Mall Gazette insultingly adds, that if Mr. Home accepts, they will not insert