[1]By permission of The Century Co.
[1]By permission of The Century Co.
[2]FromPan's Garden, by Algernon Blackwood—Permission of the Macmillan Company.
[2]FromPan's Garden, by Algernon Blackwood—Permission of the Macmillan Company.
[3]From Ten-Minute Stories, published by E. P. Dutton & Co.
[3]From Ten-Minute Stories, published by E. P. Dutton & Co.
[4]By permission of The Century Co.
[4]By permission of The Century Co.
[5]By permission of the author ofWar Letters of the Living Dead Manand Mitchell Kennerley.
[5]By permission of the author ofWar Letters of the Living Dead Manand Mitchell Kennerley.
[6]FromKarma(Boni & Liveright).
[6]FromKarma(Boni & Liveright).
[7]From "In the Midst of Life" (Boni & Liveright).
[7]From "In the Midst of Life" (Boni & Liveright).
[8]Referring to this photo elsewhere, he wrote:—"This at least is not a case which telepathy can explain. Nor can the hypothesis of fraud hold water. It was by the merest accident that I asked the photographer to see if the spirit would give his name. No one in England, so far as I have been able to ascertain, knew that any Piet Botha ever existed."As if to render all explanation of fraud or contrivance still more incredible, it may be mentioned that theDaily Graphicof October, 1889, which announced that a Commandant Botha had been killed in the siege of Kimberley, published a portrait alleged to be that of the dead commandant, which not only does not bear the remotest resemblance to the Piet Botha of my photograph, but which was described as Commandant Hans Botha!"
[8]Referring to this photo elsewhere, he wrote:—"This at least is not a case which telepathy can explain. Nor can the hypothesis of fraud hold water. It was by the merest accident that I asked the photographer to see if the spirit would give his name. No one in England, so far as I have been able to ascertain, knew that any Piet Botha ever existed.
"As if to render all explanation of fraud or contrivance still more incredible, it may be mentioned that theDaily Graphicof October, 1889, which announced that a Commandant Botha had been killed in the siege of Kimberley, published a portrait alleged to be that of the dead commandant, which not only does not bear the remotest resemblance to the Piet Botha of my photograph, but which was described as Commandant Hans Botha!"
[9]Miss Katharine Bates was present when the Piet Botha photograph was taken under the exact conditions specified by my father.
[9]Miss Katharine Bates was present when the Piet Botha photograph was taken under the exact conditions specified by my father.
[10]Contullich: i.e. Ceann-nan-tulaich, "the end of the hillocks." Loch a chaoruinn means the loch of the rowan-trees.
[10]Contullich: i.e. Ceann-nan-tulaich, "the end of the hillocks." Loch a chaoruinn means the loch of the rowan-trees.
[11]"The farm in the hollow of the yellow flowers."
[11]"The farm in the hollow of the yellow flowers."
[12]A chuid do Pharas da! "His share of heaven be his." Gu'n gleidheadh Dia thu, "May God preserve you." Gu'n beannaic-headh Dia an tigh! "God's blessing on this house."
[12]A chuid do Pharas da! "His share of heaven be his." Gu'n gleidheadh Dia thu, "May God preserve you." Gu'n beannaic-headh Dia an tigh! "God's blessing on this house."
[13]Droch caoidh ort! "May a fatal accident happen to you" (lit."bad moan on you"). Gaoth gun direadh ort! "May you drift to your drowning" (lit."wind without direction on you"). Dia ad aghaidh, etc., "God against thee and in thy face ... and may a death of woe be yours.... Evil and sorrow to thee and thine!"
[13]Droch caoidh ort! "May a fatal accident happen to you" (lit."bad moan on you"). Gaoth gun direadh ort! "May you drift to your drowning" (lit."wind without direction on you"). Dia ad aghaidh, etc., "God against thee and in thy face ... and may a death of woe be yours.... Evil and sorrow to thee and thine!"
[14]i.e. With a criminal secret, or an undiscovered crime.
[14]i.e. With a criminal secret, or an undiscovered crime.
[15]186,900 miles a second (J. Wallace Stewart, B.Sc.).
[15]186,900 miles a second (J. Wallace Stewart, B.Sc.).
[16]Termed teleplasma.
[16]Termed teleplasma.
[17]By permission of the author.
[17]By permission of the author.
[18]From Journal of Proceedings of Theosophical Society.
[18]From Journal of Proceedings of Theosophical Society.
[19]Fragments of Forgotten History.
[19]Fragments of Forgotten History.
[20]Fragments of Forgotten History.
[20]Fragments of Forgotten History.
[21]By which it is doubtless meant that thefullindividuality is not present; the higher principles, thetruespirit, having ascended to its appropriate house, from which there is no attraction to earth. That which materializes would be an elemental, or elementals molding their fluidic forms in the likeness of the departed human being; or, on the other hand, considering and revivifying the atomic remnants of the sidereal encasement, or astral body, still left undissipated in the soul-world.
[21]By which it is doubtless meant that thefullindividuality is not present; the higher principles, thetruespirit, having ascended to its appropriate house, from which there is no attraction to earth. That which materializes would be an elemental, or elementals molding their fluidic forms in the likeness of the departed human being; or, on the other hand, considering and revivifying the atomic remnants of the sidereal encasement, or astral body, still left undissipated in the soul-world.
[22]Sir Astley Paston Cooper was perhaps the most famous and influential surgeon of his time in England.
[22]Sir Astley Paston Cooper was perhaps the most famous and influential surgeon of his time in England.