XXV. INTERVIEWING AN ASTROLOGER 204 XXVI. A BARMAID SHOW 212 XXVII. A PRIVATE EXECUTION 217 XXVIII. BREAKING UP FOR THE HOLIDAYS 224 XXIX. PSYCHOLOGICAL LADIES 228 XXX. SECULARISM ON BUNYAN 233 XXXI. AL FRESCO INFIDELITY 242 XXXII. AN "INDESCRIBABLE PHENOMENON" 250 XXXIII. A LADY MESMERIST 260 XXXIV. A PSYCHOPATHIC INSTITUTION 269 XXXV. A PHRENOLOGICAL EVENING 277 XXXVI. A SPIRITUAL PICNIC 284 XXXVII. A GHOSTLY CONFERENCE 290 XXXVIII. AN EVENING'S DIABLERIE 300 XXXIX. SPIRITUAL ATHLETES 307 XL. "SPOTTING" SPIRIT MEDIUMS 313 XLI. A SEANCE FOR SCEPTICS 320 XLII. AN EVENING WITH THE HIGHER SPIRITS 328 XLIII. SPIRIT FORMS 340 XLIV. SITTING WITH A SIBYL 347 XLV. SPIRITUALISTS AND CONJURERS 355 XLVI. PROS AND CONS OF SPIRITUALISM 362 INTRODUCTION. It is perhaps scarcely necessary to say that I use the term Mystic, as applied to the larger portion of this volume, in its technical sense to signify my own _initiation_ into some of the more occult phases of metropolitan existence. It is only to the Spiritualistic, or concluding portion of my work, that the word applies in its ordinary signification. C. M. D. MYSTIC LONDON. CHAPTER I. LONDON ARABS.