to look down at the floor, and there lying at her feet she saw the corpse of a man.  The body was covered with a cloth mantle, but the face was exposed, and she distinctly recognised the features of a friend, Sir J.T.  On the following morning the family of the young lady received a message informing them that Sir J.T. had been drowned the previous day in Southampton Water through the capsizing of a boat, and that when his body was recovered it was entangled in a boat cloak.  The story of the Argyle Rooms apparition is told by Mr. Thomas Raikes in his well-known diary, and he personally vouches for the truth of it.’

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In this connection the following cutting from an English paper of March, 1914, will be found very interesting and instructive.

‘TALKS’ WITH MR. STEAD.

SIR A. TURNER’S PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES.

General Sir Alfred Turner’s psychic experiences, which he related to the London Spiritualist Alliance on May 7, in the salon of the Royal Society of British Artists, cover a very wide field, and they date from his early boyhood.

The most interesting and suggestive relate to the re-appearance of Mr. Stead, says the Daily Chronicle.  On the Sunday following the sinking of the Titanic, Sir Alfred was visiting a medium when she told him that on the glass of the picture behind his back the head of a man and afterwards ‘its’ whole form appeared.  She described him minutely, and said he was holding a child by the hand.  He had no doubt that it was Mr. Stead, and he wrote immediately to Miss Harper, Mr. Stead’s private secretary.  She replied saying that on the same day she had seen a similar apparition, in which Mr. Stead was holding a child by the hand.

A few days afterwards (continued Sir Alfred) at a private seance the voice of Stead came almost immediately and spoke at length.  He told them what had happened in the last minutes of the wreck.  All those who were on board when the vessel sank soon passed over, but they had not the slightest notion that they were dead.  Stead knew however, and he set to work to try and tell these poor people that they had passed over and that there was at any rate no more physical suffering for them.  Shortly afterwards he was joined by other spirits, who took part in the missionary work.

Mr. Stead was asked to show himself to the circle.  He said ’Not now, but at Cambridge House.’  At the meeting which took place there, not everybody was sympathetic, and the results were poor, except that Mr. Stead came to them in short sharp flashes dressed exactly as he was when on earth.

Since then, said Sir Alfred, he had seen and conversed with Mr. Stead many times.  When he had shown himself he had said very little, when he did not appear he said a great deal.  On the occasion of his last appearance he said:  ’I cannot speak to you.  But pursue the truth.  It is all truth.’

     I am confident, Sir Alfred declared, that Mr. Stead will be of the
     greatest help to those of us who, on earth, work with him and to
     others who believe.