I have attended a séance of the Institution of the Sourds-Muets founded by the famous Abbé de l'Epée, and continued with equal success by his successor the Abbé S[icard], who delivered the lecture and exhibited the talent and proficiency of his pupils.

I held séances in my parlor, and frightened my wife with messagessome of them ghastly enoughfrom her dead relatives, I ran the usual gauntlet of strange seers in strange places, who told me my name, the names of all my friends, dead or alive, my secret aspirations and peculiar characteristics, my past history and future prospects.

The method of producing the long message which opened the séance has been described above.

We reached New York early in the morning and separated, having arranged to visit that afternoon a celebrated "spiritual" medium who was then giving séances in the Empire City, and of whom my friend had heard and repeated to me several more or less marvellous stories.

He dismissed the mediumistic séances as trickery.

"And forgive me, Miss BurnabyI'm afraid I was wrong to allow thisthis" he did not know quite what to say, so he ended lamely, "this séance to take place.

"Brother Paul found themfound us having a séance with the Shamán.

He felt rather sorry that they hadn't planned out thisthis séance, before the rest of the party had arrived.

We were more successful in procuring a séance with Mr. Keeler's brother, whose Mediumship manifests itself by the materialization of a right hand behind a low screen, in front of which the Medium sits, with his face alone visible, his entire person being concealed by black muslin.

"J'ai été réellement touchée, de la raison et de la fermeté que le roi a mises dans cette rude séance.

She ought to have stopped the séance the moment she saw whither it was tending!

PROROGER, suspendre et fixer à une date ultérieure les séances de; prolonger le temps accordé pour faire une chose.

The little heart-shaped piece of wood spiritualists use, with a pencil fast to it, to take down their silly 'messages,' Some spiritualistic fake was visiting town conducting séances and he claimed he'd discovered some sort of method for inducing greater receptivityor something like that.

When she has gone, her husband and his guests arrange a séance and evoke a spirit.

He wanted the séance over in order that he might look at her again.

Disgusted with this evident failure, the Medium decided to close the séance.

The Medium who conducted the séance came to me and said, 'There's a Spirit in the Cabinet who says she's your niece.'

We had a séance also with Messrs. Rothermel and Powell, of whom the former is the Medium, the latter, acting mainly as a reservoir of psychic force, guides and directs the séance.