+ Review 3:538 D 1 ’20 300w
“The excerpts presented do not all rank equally in weight of thought or of rhetoric. But they are symptomatic and in that respect the compilation is invaluable since it points the finger of warning. If instead of appointing a committee of a hundred and more to investigate the wrongs of Ireland we should establish a commission to investigate honestly and diligently the causes underlying this composite of fire and bitterness, a great and overshadowing disaster might be peacably turned aside.” Jessie Fauset
+ Survey 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 260w
KERNAHAN, COULSON. Spiritualism; a personal experience and a warning. *60c (7½c) Revell 134
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Spiritualism is an obsession, says the author, by which a person relinquishes his will-power into other and unknown hands—always a very dangerous thing to do. He believes that any attempt to unlock the door which separates this life from the next is “an unseemly intrusion upon the sanctity, the august majesty, of which we are conscious in the presence of our dead. Spiritualism vulgarizes that which is holy, while adding to our knowledge no single word of real help or worth.” Contents: Spiritual housebreaking; A personal experience; Some comments on my first séance; Telepathy; The barrenness of spiritualism; Sin begins in want of faith; A will o’ the wisp.
“The description of his own experience at a séance is certainly interesting, but as usual in such narratives, too vague in its details.”
+ − Ath p93 Ja 16 ’20 50w + N Y Times 25:19 Jl 4 ’20 80w + Springf’d Republican p6 Je 1 ’20 300w The Times [London] Lit Sup p635 N 6 ’19 60w
KERNAHAN, COULSON. Swinburne as I knew him. *$1.25 (4½c) Lane