Chapter I: Preface

Written at intervals from the pressure of business, and at times that should have been devoted to recreation, these pages make no claim to artistic arrangement or literary merit. If they enable any one to arrive at a clearer and better appreciation of the wonderful phenomena of which they treat, they will have accomplished all that was intended.

WINCHESTER, MASS.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION, PAGE 9

Part I.

MATERIALIZATION AND DEMATERIALIZATION OF FORMS AND OBJECTS.

CHAPTER. PAGE.

I. MY FIRST SEANCE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT 17

II. PERSONIFICATION BY THE MEDIUM, OR MATERIALIZED
FORMS 30

III. MATERIALIZATION AND DEMATERIALIZATION OF
OBJECTS 36

IV. MATERIALIZATION AND DEMATERIALIZATION UNDER
TEST CONDITIONS 51

V. AN UNEXPECTED SEANCE 60

VI. SEANCE WITH MRS. CARRIE M. SAWYER 68

VII. SEANCES WITH MRS. FAIRCHILD 79

VIII. SEANCE WITH MISS HELEN BERRY AT ONSET 88

IX. SEANCE AT THE BERRY SISTERS' IN BOSTON 99

X. MATERIALIZED FORMS--HOW SHALL WE MEET THEM? 109

Part II.

OPINIONS AND THEORIES.

I. A GLANCE BEHIND THE CURTAIN 123

II. EXPOSURES OF MEDIUMS 131

III. PUBLIC SEANCES 140

IV. THE ATTITUDE OF SCIENTISTS 146

V. PUBLIC OPINION 153

VI. CONCLUSION 164

ILLUSTRATIONS.

DIAGRAM OF MRS. FAY'S SEANCE-ROOM 29

DIAGRAM OF THE MISSES BERRY'S SEANCE-ROOM 100