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590 Joumal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
We welcome this new Review to the field of discussion.
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A C orrcction.
Mr. Hereward Carrington properly calls our attention to an
error which appeared in the review of his book, The Problems of
Psychical Research, in the June issue of the Journal. By an inadvertence,
the late Dr. Hyslop criticised the chapter supposed to
be entitled " The Psychology of the Planchette," when the title
was really " The Psychology of Planchette Writing," which
makes that particular criticism nugatory. Other points to which
Mr. Carrington takes exception simply represent opinions with
which the latter disagrees.
Beginning to Sit up and TakeN oticc.
A cor*spondent who belongs to the medical profession sends
us the following, which he says appeared as an editorial in the
New York Medical Jottrnal, a standard publication, in its issue
of April 3, 1920.
MODERN GHOSTS.
Down through the ages there has defiled through the world an
unending procession of psychologists who, according to the centuries
and places through which they passed, were termed mad, or
dreamers. or, at the best, seekers after something new or simply
revivalists of that which was old. As they traversed what might
be termed the villages of thought, crowds gathered to hear, attracted
or repelled, just because the procession was a novelty.
But some" vi11agers to-day are not gazing open-mouthed.
They are critical and pour fluent nonsense into editorial offices,
breaking scientific eggs with sledgehammers and attacking castiron
fallacies with pen-knives. Book-stores have rows of pretty
volumes replete with stolen wisdom and ill-digested knowledge.
Dozens of societies have sprung up, each with an " organ ", where
gleanings from the best journals are condensed to ambiguity or
exsanguinated through careless cutting.
It is with relief one turns to the journals of accredited societies,
such as that of the American Society for Psychical Research,
to find on the co,·er of the December issue such interesting men
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