HOURS WITH THE GHOSTS LEE'S LIBRARY OF OCCULT SCIENCE HOURS WITH THE GHOSTS; Or XIX Century Witchcraft By Henry R. Evans. PRACTICAL PALMISTRY; Or Hand Reading Made Easy By Comte C. de Saint-Germain. HERRMANN THE MAGICIAN; His Life; His Secrets By H. J. Burlingame. All profusely illustrated. Bound in Holliston cloth, burnished red top, uncut edges. EACH, $1.00 [Illustration: SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPH. [Taken by the Author.]] Hours With the Ghosts OR NINETEENTH CENTURY WITCHCRAFT ILLUSTRATED INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy BY HENRY RIDGELY EVANS The first duty we owe to the world is Truth--all the Truth--nothing but the Truth.--"_Ancient Wisdom._" CHICAGO LAIRD & LEE, PUBLISHERS Entered according to act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. BY WILLIAM H. LEE, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. TO MY WIFE "It is no proof of wisdom to refuse to examine certain phenomena because we think it certain that they are impossible, as if our knowledge of the universe were already completed."--_Prof. Lodge._ "The most ardent Spiritist should welcome a searching inquiry into the potential faculties of spirits still in the flesh. Until we know more of _these_, those other phenomena to which he appeals must remain unintelligible because isolated, and are likely to be obstinately disbelieved because they are impossible to understand."--_F. W. H. Myers: "Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research," Part XVIII, April, 1891._ TABLE OF CONTENTS. Author's Preface 11 INTRODUCTORY ARGUMENT 13 PART FIRST: =Spiritualism= 18 _I. Divisions of the Subject_ 18 _II. Subjective Phenomena_ 23 1. Telepathy 23 2. Table Tilting. Muscle Reading 40