endix E to the Report is given some striking testimony to the
reality of the "fire-test." The following letter from Mr. W. M.
Wilkinson, the well-known solicitor, is included:--

"As you ask me to write to you of what occurred at our house at
Kilburn, where we were living in 1869, with reference to the
handling of red-hot coal, I will merely say that one Sunday
evening in the winter of that year, I saw Mr. Home take out of
our drawing-room fire a red-hot coal a little less in size than
a cricket ball, and carry it up and down the drawing-room. He
said to Lord Adare, now Lord Dunraven, who was present, 'Will
you take it from me? It will not hurt you.' Lord Adare took it
from him, and held it in his hand for about half a minute, and
before he threw it back in the fire I put my hand pretty close
to it, and felt the heat to be like that of a live coal.--Yours
very truly, W. M. WILKINSON.[33]

44 LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS,
LONDON, W.C., _February_ 7, 1869."

Appendix M to the Report consists of some particulars verbally given to
Mr. Myers by Mrs. Honywood, of 52 Warwick Square, London, in further
explanation of her printed testimony to phenomena she had witnessed in
Home's presence. She was well acquainted with him for twenty-five years,
attended many seances, and took notes of them at the time. In the early
part of this chapter, a statement she sent to the Dialectical Society
has already been quoted. She told Mr. Myers that most of her friends
were complete disbelievers in Spiritualism, and that they frequently
repeated to her rumours to the discredit of Home. But she never heard
any first-hand account of any kind of trickery on his part. She
considered him a man of open childlike nature, thoroughly honest and
truthful, and that in her opinion his utterances in the trance state
were much superior in thought and diction to his ordinary talk. She said
she should like to give Mr. Myers a few additional details with regard
to the fire phenomena reported in Madame Home's book, "D. D. Home, His
Life and Mission," on her authority. Madame Home's secretary, she said,
had slightly abbreviated her words in a way which made the occurrences
seem rather less wonderful than they actually were. Mr. Myers gives the
following, as having been signed "BARBARA HONYWOOD, June 1889."

"As to the burning coal placed in my hand. I saw Mr. Home take this coal
f