ion he might
experience. I passed into another room and closed the door and locked
it; went into a closet in the room and closed the door after me; took
down from the shelf, first a linen sheet, then a pasteboard box, then a
toy engine, owned by a child in the house. I went back to my subject and
asked him what experience he had had.

"He said I seemed to go into another room, and from thence into a dark
closet. I wanted something off the shelf, but did not know what. I took
down from the shelf a piece of smooth cloth, a long, square pasteboard
box and a tin engine. These were all the sensations he had experienced.
I asked him if he saw the articles with his eyes which I had removed
from the shelf. He answered that the closet was dark and that he only
felt them with his hands. I asked him how he knew that the engine was
tin. He said: 'By the sound of it.' As my hands touched it I heard the
wheels rattle. Now the only sound made by me while in the closet was
simply the rattling of the wheels of the toy as I took it off the shelf.
This could not possibly have been heard, as the subject was distant from
me two large rooms, and there were two closed doors between us, and the
noise was very slight. Neither could the subject have judged where I
went, as I had on light slippers which made no noise. The subject had
never visited the house before, and naturally did not know the contents
of the closet as he was carefully observed from the moment he entered
the house."

Many similar experiments are on record. Persons in the hypnotic
condition have been able to tell what other persons were doing in
distant parts of a city; could tell the pages of the books they might be
reading and the numbers of all sorts of articles. While in London the
writer had an opportunity of witnessing a performance of this kind.
There was a young boy who seemed to have this peculiar power. A queer
old desk had come into the house from Italy, and as it was a valuable
piece of furniture, the owner was anxious to learn its pedigree. Without
having examined the desk beforehand in any way the boy, during one of
his trances, said that in a certain place a secret spring would be found
which would open an unknown drawer, and behind that drawer would be
found the name of the maker of the desk and the date 1639. The desk was
at once examined, and the name and date found exactly as described. It
is clear in this case that this information could not have been in the