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lower plane in which that state of consciousness, is to some degree reflected. If the former be true, a doubt arises as to whether many of the professional and other clairvoyants who have not received special training are in any degree able to respond to such lofty conditions demanded in order to rise above the limitations of time; the latter is more acceptable, for the possession of the gift of psychometry does not depend, so far as this one physical life in which the ability is shown is concerned, upon either spirituality, education, altruism, morality, hygiene, diet, or apparent evolutionary standing. It is sometimes, but not always, hereditary; it is probably more common in the Celtic people than in the Teutonic, though the latter possess it in large numbers, as experiments with friends will prove to the reader’s satisfaction. From the occult point of view it must be karmic, and presumably the result of development along psychic lines in past lives. Whatever the final explanation may be—and the author does not pretend to have given it—enough has, perhaps, been written to show that in psychometry we have a subject worthy of study and further elucidation.