John Page Hopps on Spirit Life 92 A beautiful Portrait obtained 92 Testimony by “Edina” 93 Portrait obtained in Edinburgh of a Child 94 Details of the Experiments to obtain it 95 MISCELLANEA. By Andrew Glendinning 111 How Abraham Lincoln’s Spirit Photograph was obtained 115 Experiments by Professor Crookes, F.R.S. 122 The beauty of Katie King described 123 Lecture by Arthur Maltby 128 Lantern Transparencies, by Mr. Acton 129 How a Portrait was obtained without a Camera 144 ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE PHOTOGRAPH OF SPIRIT HEAD AND FACE BY DAVID DUGUID _Frontispiece._ PORTRAIT OF DAVID DUGUID 25 PHOTOGRAPH OF SPIRIT BY J. TRAILL TAYLOR 29 ANOTHER PHOTOGRAPH BY J. TRAILL TAYLOR 35 PHOTOGRAPH OF A LADY AND THE SPIRIT OF HER FATHER 79 PHOTOGRAPH OF MR. STAINTON MOSES, M.A., AND SPIRIT 83 PHOTOGRAPH OF HON. M. A. DOW AND SPIRIT OF MABEL WARREN 117 PSYCHIC PICTURE OBTAINED WITHOUT A CAMERA OR EXPOSURE OF PLATE TO LIGHT 145 PSYCHIC FORM OBTAINED OCTOBER 21, 1893 149 MRS. GREEN AND SPIRIT 153 SPIRIT LADY 157 PSYCHIC FORM OBTAINED APRIL 29, 1892 160 “Stand upright, speak thy thought, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere; They only live who dare.”—LEWIS MORRIS. * * * * * “All great discoveries have at first been derided as ridiculous and then denounced as impious, and lastly adopted as a matter of course. Let us, then, as we have to learn to labour and to wait, stand firm for the expansion of human faculty, increase of human growth, accession to human knowledge, and welcome, as all in the day’s work, even the silent apparition or the gibbering ghost.”—Rev. H. R. HAWEIS, M.A. * * * * * “There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.”—PAUL. INTRODUCTION. “Every new truth which has ever been propounded has, for a time, caused mischief; it has produced discomfort, and often unhappiness.”—BUCKLE, in _History of Civilisation_. _WHAT LED TO THE RECENT EXPERIMENTS IN PSYCHIC PHOTOGRAPHY._