"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.

The Unknown.

He passed from an account of these shady practices to show us slides of his own scientific experiments in telepathy. These showed a considerable degree of success and were most impressive. Here we felt lay a vast field of knowledge which we but glimpsed from afar; one day in might radically alter our lives.

Fire-walkers.

The discussion which followed was not up to standard. The members of the club had, generally speaking, too little knowledge of the subject under discussion. The case of the fire-walkers was once more passed under revue. Mr. Hubbard failed to convince the meeting that the Fijians owed their immunity from burning to the unusual toughness of their feet.