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hall and kept under constant surveillance during the seven days of his fast, and at the close he was placed in a chair and held down in it by six strong policemen. At a signal from the man who held him in hypnotic control the little frail creature sprang up and threw off those powerful men as though they had been insects which had settled upon him. Now, where did his strength come from? It was certainly not resident in his flabby muscles.

I have seen many exhibitions of this kind, and it all goes to convince me that we are open on the inner, mental side to a great reservoir of strength, which can pour into weak muscles and strengthen them on the instant. Once, before the Society for Psychical Research in Boston, I saw two hypnotized subjects impersonate Bill Nye and a political speaker. The operator simply suggested to the one that he was Bill Nye and to the other that he was on the stump in the interests of his candidate. The pseudo Bill Nye was irresistibly droll, and his eloquence flowed in a steady stream to the end of his long address. The stump-speaker was just as good in his role, and to me it was remarkable that each should so excel in his oratory, for certainly the operator could not have given more than a suggestion for each to carry out. If he had given to either speaker his discourse word