[38] Published by C. de Vesme in his Revue des Études psychiques, 1901.
[39] Eusapia, as has been said, is unable either to read or write.
[40] Arago, in 1846, with the "electric girl"; Flammarion, in 1861, with Allan Kardec, then afterwards with different mediums; Zöllner, in 1882, with Slade; Schiaparelli, in 1892 with Eusapia; Porro, in 1901, with the same medium (Revue des Études psychiques).
[41] Notably in Uranie, in Stella, in Lumen, in L'Inconnu. See also above, p. 30 in my Oration at the Grave of Allen Kardec.
[42] Slade was sentenced to three months of hard labor, in London, for swindling. He died in a private hospital, in the State of Michigan, in September, 1905.
[43] Annales des sciences psychiques, 1896, p. 66.
[44] We have already noticed (see [p. 149]) the practical joke of Professor Bianchi in a meeting of the most serious investigators.
[45] See Annales, 1896. The report is very rich in records. The door of the wardrobe opened and closed of itself, several times in succession, in synchronism with the movements of the medium's hands, which were at about a yard's distance. A toy piano weighing about two pounds was moved about, and played several airs all alone, etc.
[46] A Parisian Anarchist executed for dynamiting the houses of the Judges Benoit and Bulot. The popular chanson of the Anarchists called La Ravachole originated in this man's deeds and personality. See Alvan Sanborn's Paris and the Social Revolution, Boston, 1905.—Trans.
[47] See also Enquête sur l'authenticité des phénomènes electriques d'Angelique Cottin. Paris, Germer Ballière, 1846. Also L'Exteriorisation de la motricité, by Albert de Rochas.