“The researches made of late years to determine some proof of existence, especially bodily existence after death, have been mainly based upon science applied to psychical intuition and evidence. This method is one elimination, discarding all the agents and influences that might spring from irrational and abnormal factors in human experience, and tracking what remained of evidence as proof of communication with identities translated to a life beyond the grave. Mr Tweedale in this work seeks to prove a similar fact but his evidence has its origin in faith, and faith receives its confirmation in the doctrines of Scripture. Mankind in general, he believes, holds the germ of this faith but fails to make it an active conviction by reason of insufficient knowledge of the realities supporting that faith. On his part Mr Tweedale rejects psychic phenomena as the theory whereby to command the knowledge of survival, though he does not hesitate to refine upon its evidence to prove his own convictions of faith.”—Boston Transcript
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“No such vast array of evidence, consisting of well-authenticated occurrences, has ever before been brought together in one volume. Not only this vast survey of the entire field of psychic phenomena, with admirable presentation in its relation to man’s religious nature and spiritual development, but there is added the clear explanations and lofty thought of Mr Tweedale.” Lilian Whiting
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TWEEDALE, MRS VIOLET (CHAMBERS). Beautiful Mrs Davenant. *$1.75 (1½c) Stokes
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There are two mysteries in this story, that concerning the past of the beautiful Mrs Davenant and the mystery of Lake House, which Letty Thorne senses on first coming there to stay with her uncle. In the solution of the second the secret of the first is also revealed. It is revealed to the reader and to one other person in the story, but Mrs Davenant, feeling that there is that in her life which forbids remarriage says no to the man who loves her and keeps her own confidence. A minor love story develops between the vicar and Mrs Davenant’s friend Agnes Howard, and to this affair as well as to the love story of Letty there is a happy ending.
“The story is not very probable, but it is entertaining and cleverly handled. It belongs to a rather old-fashioned type of romance, but it is treated in a modern way.”