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policemen who figured in the test were the regular officers of the town, so there was little or no chance for fraud.

When I was a member of the Society for Psychical Research in Boston I saw two hypnotized subjects impersonate Bill Nye and a political orator. Dr. Pfeiffer was the hypnotic operator and he 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 speeches began and continued simultaneously, and it was difficult for us to follow each speaker, but we heard enough to know that the pseudo Bill Nye was irresistibly droll and very original, his witty eloquence flowing in a steady stream to the end of his long address. The stump speaker was just as good in his role, and it seemed remarkable to me that each should excel in his own adopted style of oratory. Both men in their natural state of mind were very ordinary, hardly up to the mediocre in their degree of intelligence, and yet when under hypnotic control each excelled in his line, each differing diametrically from the other.

The operator could not have given more than a mere suggestion to each, for to have given to one speaker his discourse word for word, he must have been an unusually fine orator, while to have given the two addresses simultaneously would have been a feat to be undertaken only by an East Indian adept. What, then, was the inference? Each speaker must have tapped for himself the source of his