[{10}] Narrated by Mrs. Herbert.
[{11a}] Story confirmed by Mr. A.
[{11b}] This child had a more curious experience. Her nurse was very ill, and of course did not sleep in the nursery. One morning the little girl said, “Macpherson is better, I saw her come in last night with a candle in her hand. She just stooped over me and then went to Tom” (a younger brother) “and kissed him in his sleep.” Macpherson had died in the night, and her attendants, of course, protested ignorance of her having left her deathbed.
[{11c}] Story received from Lady X. See another good case in Proceedings of the Psychical Society, vol. xi., 1895, p. 397. In this case, however, the finder was not nearer than forty rods to the person who lost a watch in long grass. He assisted in the search, however, and may have seen the watch unconsciously, in a moment of absence of mind. Many other cases in Proceedings of S.P.R.
[{13}] Story received in a letter from the dreamer.
[{16}] Augustine. In Library of the Fathers, XVII. Short Treatises, pp. 530-531.
[{18}] St. Augustine, De Cura pro Mortuis.
[{20}] The professor is not sure whether he spoke English or German.
[{24}] From Some Account of the Conversion of the late William Hone, supplied by some friend of W. H. to compiler. Name not given.
[{28}] What is now called “mental telegraphy” or “telepathy” is quite an old idea. Bacon calls it “sympathy” between two distant minds, sympathy so strong that one communicates with the other without using the recognised channels of the senses. Izaak Walton explains in the same way Dr. Donne’s vision, in Paris, of his wife and dead child. “If two lutes are strung to an exact harmony, and one is struck, the other sounds,” argues Walton. Two minds may be as harmoniously attuned and communicate each with each. Of course, in the case of the lutes there are actual vibrations, physical facts. But we know nothing of vibrations in the brain which can traverse space to another brain.