Abstract
ALTHOUGH this work purports to be a critical survey of the work undertaken by psychical research workers during the last fifty years, and even to be a continuation, of the late Mr. Frank Podmore's history of modern spiritualism, it is, if the truth be told, nothing of the kind. It consists of a miscellaneous collection of material, written in a popular style and forming more than anything else a kind of abstract or digest of some of the more sensational cases of recent times. There is no attempt to present the subject-matter in historical sequence with due regard and appreciation of the factors underlying the changes in teclinique and experimentation during the course of time, and moreover a good deal of space is given to accounts of cases of no conceivable scientific or even historical importance, whilst others of considerable psychological value are omitted altogether. Fifty Years of Psychical Research A Critical Survey. By Harry Price. Pp. xii + 383 + 15 plates. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1939.) 10s. 6d. net.
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