xtraordinary way. It is not very uncommon to find people who have
acquired intuitive perception of each others' current thoughts, beyond
what can be ascribed to community of interests, or comprehension of
character.

Zschokke, the German writer and teacher, is a peculiarly honorable and
unimpeachable witness. What he affirms, as of his own knowledge, we
have no right to disbelieve. Many of us have read the marvellous account
given by him, of his sudden discovery that he possessed the power in
regard to a few people--by no means in regard to all--of knowing, when
he came near to them, not only their present thoughts, but much of what
was in their memories. The details will be found in his Autobiography,
which, being translated, has become a common book among us. When, for
the first time, while conversing with some person, he acquired a sense
of power over the secrets of that person's past life, he gave, of
course, but little heed to his sensation. Afterwards, as from time to
time the sense recurred, he tested the accuracy of his impressions, and
was alarmed to find that, at certain times, and in regard to certain
persons, the mysterious knowledge was undoubtedly acquired. Once when a
young man at the table with him was dismissing very flippantly all
manner of unexplained phenomena as the gross food of ignorance and
credulity, Zschokke requested to know what he would say if he, a
stranger, by aid of an unexplained power, should be able to tell him
secrets out of his past life. Zschokke was defied to do that; but he did
it. Among other things he described a certain upper room, in which there
was a certain strong box, and from which certain moneys, the property of
his master, had been abstracted by that young man; who, overwhelmed with
astonishment, confessed the theft.

Many glimmerings of intuition, which at certain times occur in the
experience of all of us, and seem to be something more than shrewd or
lucky guesses, may be referred to the same power which we find, in the
case just quoted, more perfectly developed. Nothing supernatural, but a
natural gift, imperceptible to us in its familiar, moderate, and healthy
exercise, brought first under our notice when some deranged adjustment
of the mind has suffered it to grow into excess--to be, if we may call
it so, a mental tumor.

We may now come to a new class of mysteries--which are receiving for the
first time, in our own day, a rational solution.

The blind poet, Pfe