An account

No note was taken at the time, only my uncle, at whose school I was xii.] TELEPATHIC HALLUCINATIONS. 561 at the time, looked at his watch and noted the time, but never thought anything about the occurrence. He himself had once a similar thing happen to himself when an uncle died ; but not so vividly as mine. There is not a soul now living to get any information from, for the lad who was with me and who did not see anything, although he looked in the same direction, is now dead ; but the announcement of the death two days afterwards told of my brother's death at the time I saw him. All the family connection are dead ; his son died in 1853, and his wife in 1854. I have had no hallucinations since. In conversation, Dr. Bowstead told me that he was not in the least expecting his brother's death. He has a very vivid remembrance of his uncle's look, and of his pulling out his watch. The boy who was near him in the cricket-field, Fred Court by name, afterwards went to Australia, where he died. Here, it will be seen, the dress of the apparition did not contain any features that were new to the percipient — to whom the sporting aspect of his brother was (as I learnt from him in conversation) both familiar and interesting ; still, the correspondence, if accurately remembered, is remarkable. This case deserves consideration from those who would attribute phantasms of the living to a diseased state of body or mind in the percipient. A cricketing school-boy, in full exercise, is rarely a prey to physical ills : and though his mental condition after just missing a catch may be a pitiable one enough, it is not one that we commonly associate with hysteria or superstition.