ABIGAIL PRICE MYSTIFIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 64, 5 March 1908, Page 2

ABIGAIL PRICE MYSTIFIES.

In speaking of Miss Abigail Price and her leiuarkaule periorniance seen nightly with Cartel', the great magician, one who has seen and investigated the occult ftr years, is prone to employ a superfluity of adjectives. Whether what she does is the result of a gift, or whether her work may be explained on Bciontilie principles, or whether it rests in the dim unexplored unknown, remains with her critics to determine.

It is true that she sits blindfolded and tells a theatre full of people, one after another, their inmost thoughts. She directs, while in a state of somnolency, the pursuit ofhidden treasure, the proper course for the perplexed to travel, describes scenes of years previous, recites occurrences that she can know nothing of, and has even, on occasion, to'.d the names of thieves and where the booty has been secreted. In fine, the mind of her auditor is an open book, and she reads at will, to the perfect astonishment and perplexity of the thousands who hear and see her, messages and letters that have been written and sealed at home, which she does not even ask to touch, much less see, and creates a furore in every city she visits such as has never been paralled in this or anv other time.

Madame ISlavatsky was not so won derful in her palmy days as Miss Prhn Her cabinet seances, 'her spiritualistic manifestations, and her materialisation! are all beyond the ken of the human mind, and wherever she goes immense throngs of the people attest this inadequate tribute to her powers. She i> truly the psychic marvel of the century and if there is anything at all in the theory of the transmission ami transference of thought—if there is anv pro liable affiliation of mind with niindMiss Price thoroughly and competently demonstrates it- in her- remarkable "Seance in l\ychomancy." Local playgoers will have an opportunity of witnessing Carter's clever company at the theatre Royal to-morrow evening.