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Unwarned by his experience, on another occasion, when he had been carried away to a large oriental palace, where a beauti-ful girl was dancing before an assembly of reclining, richly garbed men and women, he succumbed again to temptation, and failing to attract the girl's attention by his presence in front of her, placed his arm round her bare, warm waist. She also started violently, and the shock, as before, sent him back to his body. The shock seems to have been exclusively to his ethenc nature. Mr. Fox gives many more accounts of his wanderings, very interesting in themselves, but lacking any terrestrial corroboration. Apart from the story of Elsie, the nearest he came to that was during a visit paid to a Mrs. X on the night of March 15th, 1916 He had dreamed of her, and felt he had made astral contact, but could only remember that some time in the night he had been accompanied by a small, black, furry animal which might have been a dog. On the same night, Mrs. X, lying awake in bed, was disturbed by a scratching and pattering sound in her room. On rising and switching on the light, she, being clairvoyant, distinctly saw a small, black, furry animal, which ran to the fireplace, rattled the fire-irons, and then vanished in the grate. After this, despite the bright light, the noises continued, and a picture was persistently rattled against the wall. She was also conscious of Mr. Fox's presence in the room, though she had no reason to expect it, and described her experiences before learning of his dream. When on the air, he often met his wife, heard her speaking and sometimes obeyed her instructions; but she was never aware of him; though once, when out of the body he bent over and kissed her, she opened her eyes.