The Alleged Haunting of B - House. Edited by A. Goodrich
Freer and the late John, Marquess of Bute. (C. Arthur Pearson. 2s.)-Much of this volume has already appeared, bat this new edition contains some interesting additions. Some of those who criticised the first accounts of the phenomena are convicted of serious errors. One local reviewer presumed that the majority of the visitors were members of the Society for Psychical Research, and argued on the presumption, whereas only five out of thirty- five were such. Nor was this the most serious of his mistakes. An eminent physician came by his own request with two friends- one of them, the editor supposes, the correspondent of the Times- stopped from Saturday to Monday, and because he heard and saw nothing-though longer intervals without incident had often occurred-pronounced a negative opinion. The fact is that this is a subject on which it is quite hopeless to expect an unbiassed judgment. That the sights and sounds here described establish any particular theory we do not pretend to say; indeed, no theory is stated. But that they can be disposed of by a little banter and a general incredulity no one can seriously contend.
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