e. As it comes now in a
fashionable style it may flourish, but of course it was only a vulgar
imposture when practiced by gypsies. Circumstances alter cases.

SUICIDE.--Eight months of the present year show 150 suicides in the
German army. Suicides will be greatly diminished when nations disband
their armies.

THEOSOPHIST REVIEWS.--The _Theosophist_, published at Madras, India,
may be considered the leading organ of Oriental Theosophy; the _Path_,
published at New York, bids fair as the American representative of the
Theosophic School; and Lady Caithness, Duchesse de Pomar, has started
at Paris a review devoted to theosophy and occult science.

APPARITIONS OF THE DEAD.--Prof. Barrett of the English Psychical
Research Society, states that: "It has been demonstrated almost as
certainly as has been the law of gravitation, that scores of cases
have occurred where some persons in one town, have, at a certain hour
or minute, seen the figure of a friend flit across the room, and have
afterwards discovered that at that very hour and minute the friend
breathed his last in a distant town, or, may be, in a foreign country.
Now these cases are inexplicable by any formula of science, yet that
they have happened is scientifically proved."

Notwithstanding the good intentions of some of the members of that
society, its general conduct has been so unfair in its investigations
that Stainton Moses, the vice-president, has felt it to be his duty to
resign and withdraw. The truth is, the pioneers in philosophy can
expect no cordial co-operation and no real justice from their oldtime
opponents. The American Psychic Research Society is far behind the
English.

HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY.--A girl was taken before the Paris tribunal
charged with stealing a blanket. She pleaded that she was under the
influence of another person and could not help herself. In prison it
was found that she was in a hypnotized condition, and acted readily
under the commands of others, doing anything that was told her. She
was examined by a commission of Chacrot, Brouardel, and Mollett, who
reported that this condition came from the use of morphia, suffering,
and hunger; that these suggestions from others, acting on an unstable
nervous organism, greatly deranged by morphia and other causes,
rendered her irresponsible for her acts. She was acquitted.

HUMAN TAILS.--M. Eliseff presented to the French Anthropological
Society a woman with a caudal appendage c