DR. BORANOFF.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 563, 19 July 1909, Page 6

DR. BORANOFF.

;;; ;.:^ANI)';MR. ;; V? EJ HSARENKO; ■;" p :; When Dr. Boranoff 'stepped on' to tli«, stage ;of ''theVOpera,-'House last;'evening to deliver' a kcture, on- "l'sychic Force,", ha found.-himself/confronted. by an audience 6f; between sixty' and iseventy people. Before ; introducing" his J subject, the lecturer referred; to certain correspondence,' rotating to him-, self, which appoarod in -Tub Dominion, oi Saturday, July 17. ,:It. will bo remembered thatv there ;wero ' two letters, oho, sighed ''Russian,'' and the other, "V. E. l'isarenko." -'Russian": asked, .with, reference to; Dr. Borauoif:/; ■; ■-.-,'..'.'.: ...•-. :'/■'.'

. "(1) How ho came to lib sentenced to tho Salt. Mines for'any political oft'onco?: ; •'; ■ "(2) Where are the bait Mines in: IrkutskP "(3) Where'ho obtains his authority for the :-statomeht : that peasants havo' have a licenss to wear clothes of' any description P" Mr. ■ Tisa'renko's; M ter dealt - principally with Dr. Boranoff's denial of the statement made that' ho' (Dr. Borarioffj had written a letter to him. 'Wrote Mr. Pisarcnko: }'• '.■'■'-.

"'•.■'. ..Ho did not writo to rao, ; be says.. He.'asks''for '.evidence that- he did. Will you, sir, kindly express your opinion of the enclosure? ' It is a, photograph of Dr.' Boranofi's! letter, written, as you will sec, on I his : offioial-note-paper. I. have;no doubt whatover that Dr. Boranoff possesses diploma! and certificates of all kindsi'but I still maintain that graduates; from,; St': Petersburg. University should-writo ; corrccfc. Russian, ana not the illiterate stufi that;, his letter to m« contains, and I also maintain'that even ordinary Russians employ Russian phraseologj in their communications.". .'■:■.. ■•' '-■•. :..< "'•;' ''•■<■'.

\ Dealing with , this correspondence, , Dr. Boranoff remarked, with, reference 'to 'Mn Pisaronko's lotter,' that he did not understand the writer's allusion to."official notepaper." In any case, ho,had no knowledge, of having written to anyone of that liamo. As for his certificates and. diplomas; ho was quite prepared, when he got nil his papers 1 —in about ;a 'week's. time—to, show, tbem; :> The' Speaker ,did not rotor-to, Mr; l'isarcnko's' '.'photograph," nor to. the points raised by "Russian," but wont on to his lecture. .;