31 JULY 1926, Page 17

This reviewer has been informed that Madame Blavataky had a'

tiny set of bells fitted into the roof of her mouth and titillated them with her tongue in order to produce the astral music which so much impressed the. early Theosophists ; but this may be a libel• on a woman who, whatever her faults, had qualities of greatness in her. Mr. J. Baseden Butt has written an interesting and fair-minded work on Madame Blavalsky (Rider, 10s. 6d.) which states a _good case for her honesty, in spite of the terribly strong indictment against her made by the Psychical Research Society. Whether or not she had bells in her Palate, Madame Blavatsky had brains in her head.

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