real to the percipients was clearly shown in many instances. Here is an account of one of his visions given by a youth named Whybrew:
No. 4
On July 16th, Mr. Smith himself hypnotised Whybrew, as usual. . During the experiment he sat by him, but did not speak to him at all after he knew the subject—a man with a barrow of fish—given him by Mrs. Sidgwick. Miss Johnson, not knowing what the subject was, carried on the conversation with Whybrew. He said: "It's the shape of a man. Yes, there's a man there. Don't know him. He looks like a bloke that sells strawberries." Miss Johnson asked: "Are there strawberries there?" Whybrew: "That looks like his barrow there. What's he selling of? I believe he's sold out. There ain't many—a few round things. I expect they're fruit. Are they cherries? They look a bit red. Aren't they fish? It don't look very much like fish. If they're fish, some of them hasn't got any heads on. Barrow is a bit fishified—it has a tray on. What colour are those things on the barrow? They looked red, but now they look silvery."
Whybrew was rather pleased with this picture, and asked afterwards whether it was for sale!
No. 5
The next case may serve to illustrate the danger of excessive culture. The experiment came near to failure because the percipient, a young man named Major, had too lofty a conception of the functions of art. "The subject given was a mouse in a mouse-trap. Regarding himself as a man of high culture and being generally anxious to ex-
