Boxing Gloves Used.

To add still further to the completeness of the "Tests," what was considered by the most sceptical observer to be an absolutely crucial and convincing test was resorted to. This was nothing more nor less than searching the Sensitive as heretofore and, in addition, placing on his hands a pair of the largest-sized boxing gloves tied securely at the wrists and sealed. In this grotesque guise he was popped into the cage and his prison house was screwed down and sealed as on former occasions. "Within a second," says the Report, "down fell something hard with a noise inside the cage. . . . and in a few seconds more another solid article fell into the cage as if from a height." The apports thus brought consisted of two baked clay tablets with cuneiform writings thereon, one of which was broken as the control was unable to catch it with his clumsily-gloved hands.

This unique test having failed to stop the manifestations, the gloves, the seals of which were found to be intact, were taken off and thus the hands of the Sensitive—who still remained in the cage—were left free to catch any live object that might possibly be page 58 brought. The proceedings were then continued, various apports began to arrive, and by the time the Seance concluded it was found that the following assortment of presents had mysteriously come to hand:—

Two baked clay tablets.
Two live birds-Indian jungle sparrows.
One Bird's Nest.

14 ancient coins, some of them of the Ptolemy reigns in bronze and electrum with the head of Jupiter Ammon, and on the obverse the double eagle of the Ptolemys: others of the early Christian period, with the head of Constantine the Great and varied figures on the obverse.

An Egyptian scarabeus, described as of soap-stone species and said to have been found at Lenderah.

A plant, about five inches high from clay to top, with abundant leaves and green and healthy looking.

"This," continues the narrator, "completed our specially stringent tests, though, indeed, every test was stringent and should convince any reasonable person."

It is little wonder that Professor Larkin should write from the aerial solitudes of his world-renowned Observatory—"How I do wish I could be there at each Session," the allusion, of course, being to Mr. Stanford's circle.