"Smad" learns that Mr. Brooks was anxious for the safety of his tables and chairs when he heard that Mr. Hubbard was to address the Free Discussions Club on Spiritualism.

He need not have worried, for Mr. Hubbard seemed disinclined to turn tables or to "materialise"; indeed he was most anxious to show up the fraudulent practices on which spiritualism thrives. He showed us how easy it is to turn tables, and produced some convincing taps with his thumb-nail. He has found the chemical composition of certain hands brought down from the spirit world to be distressingly terrestial.