COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2652, 24 December 1915, Page 12

COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD

SIR OLIVER LODGE'S NEW BOOK. The "Central News" says:—lt'will 1 be remembered that in November last, I speaking at the Robert Browning Set- . tlement at Walworth, Sir Oliver Lodge . made an affirmation _in the following j terms as to tho survival of the soul;— 1 "I km>w that certain friends of mine . still exist because I have talked .to 1 them. Communication is possible. I tell you with all the strength and conr notion I can utter that we do persist, that people still take an interest 1 in what is going on, that they still helj: , us, and know far more about things - than we do, and are able from time to f time to communicate with us." This E affirmation was the occasion of com--3 ment throughout tho world. Sir Oliver Lodge has_ now in prep paration a yolume in which he will give - to the world the scientific grounds upon - which the utterance quoted above was j based. He has already passed the proofs of <a revised and popular edition of his well-known book on "The Survival of Man," and the new volume wit be a. kind of sequel to this book. 1 Sir Oliver, it is understood, has "soms extraordinary facts" to relate., Com: 1 mencing\from a sceptical or at any rate 0 an agnostic position, he has graduallj ' reached the conviction as the result ol = scientific investigation first of the siir- • vival of tho soul, and, more recently, o! s tho possibility and reality of comnmni a cation with those in the beyond. Hi: jj first experiences of the kind to be. deal with in his books date back to tin 0 eighties, but, tho conclusion arrived a being a very important one, he has. beei i r slow to make a definite pronouncement Ho holds tho firm conviction that wi '* are living in a much greater univers than is generally' understood. e Miss Marie Narelle, a singer we] known in New Zealand, is playing th is title role in "Adelaide," the Bccthovci d musical play 111 which Mr. David Bis n pliam is appearftiK as the Master 1. >f America. . 10 — ~ ~~