French Ghost Hunters

Members of our own Society of Psychical Research, which, by the way, has not been ranch in evidence of late, shonld be interested in the fate which has befallen the French body with identical aims known as La Societe des Sciences Psychiques. The latter has just been reduced to a state of aopeless disniption by the condnct of a section of its adherents who, presumably -weary of conflning their psychical researches to the chasing of elusive "spooks, " have gone astray af ter such livelier branches of occult science as the preparation of talismans, the concocting of love philters and the telling of fortunes. The earnest ghost hunters, disgusted by this descent to the m'ethods óf the common or commercial charlatan, have resigned in a body and formed a new society of their own. It is by no means certain, however, that those who remain iave not proved themselves wiser in their generation than the seceders, for, while ghosts are unmistakably "off" in these days, the interest in other f ornas of mystical quackery seems to be as