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A MAGICIAN AMONG THE SPIRITS. By Houdini.' (Harpers. 12s. 6d.

net.) A MAGICIAN AMONG THE SPIRITS. By Houdini.' (Harpers. 12s. 6d. net.)

"After twenty-five years of ardent research and endeavour," Houdini writes in his introduction, "I declare that nothing

has been revealed to convince me that intercommunication has been established between the Spirits of the departed and those still living." His book is a record of frauds exposed, of the confessions of mediums, of the tricks of mediums repeated by himself and other professional conjurors so exactly that spiritualists have been _deceived anew. It is written with moderation, and it should be read as attentively as the books of confirmed spiritualists by any man who wishes to make up his mind, freely and without prejudice, on the subject.