Myers, Frederic William H. [Human personality and its survival of bodily death]; ed. and abridged by his son, Leopold H. Myers. **$3. Longmans.
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An abridged editions of a work whose aim “is principally, to collect evidence of the phenomena discussed. Nevertheless, the author enters to some extent, on the more difficult and dangerous path of interpretation and theory.” (Cath. World.) Following an introduction the chapter headings are as follows: Disintegration of personality, Genius, Sleep, Hypnotism, Sensory automatism, Phantasms of the dead, Motor automatism and Trance, possession and ecstasy.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 144. My. ’07. |
“One of the most valuable contributions that has been made to the literature of psychic science.”
| + + | Arena. 36: 671. Je. ’07. 520w. |
“Without eliminating anything characteristic or typical, the editor has compressed the original into this one volume.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 254. My. ’07. 280w. |