CHAPTER IIL PUBLIC CLAIRVOYANCE. As regards my public experiences, the reader will readily understand that I could do no more than I have done, so far as getting evidence was concerned. My method was to keep a book in which I put down the date, the number of descriptions given, the number recognized, and a few of the chief points of any description which I thought was slightly above the average. This book was signed by two, three, or four officials of the Society within a few hours. From it I have reconstructed my “ Public Experiences” as herein laid before the reader, and I have submitted the MS. to three witnesses mentioned in the Voucher. Up to May, 1908, I have given one hundred and sixty descriptions in public. Of these, one hundred and forty-five were recognized as true visions, leaving only fifteen unverified. There are many causes of non-recognition. Some may probably be—