Ancient Ecver Sreaxs.—A. J. Howard Hulme and Frederic H. Wood. Rider Ca. 10/6.
In the words of the publisher this book provides a startling supplement to the arduous -researches of Egyptologists to discover the true pronunciation of Ancient Egyptian'. The great discovery is contained in the words of a medium in the north of England. and the messages claim to emanate from the 'Lady Nona' who has been identified as having lived 3,300 years ago, and as having been a secondary wife of the Pharoah. There is a very technical chapter on the linguistic proof of the messages, and also an analysis of a record taken at the International Institute for Psychieal Research. After taking for granted the sincerity of the writers, one is still faced with the innumerable contradictions which characterize most of this class of literature, the broken phrases of the controls' or guides', and the mixture of Christian truth, reincarnation, and dual personalities, yet the great claim of the 'Lady Nona' that man is a soul'. It is somewhat pleasing to rude mortals to-observe in the case of 'Lady Nona' who has risen to very high libra tions', little signs occasionally of petulance when her poor medium' is not on the mark in receiving the rapid Egyptian utterances. Perhaps we are still sceptical, but one feels that in the higher sphere from which the controls' speak there is as great agnosticism from the Christian point of view as we find in this irreligious as interpreted; by Lenin and Stalin and their immediate followers, No deviation to "right" or "left" of this "party line" is allowed, Far more space is in fact devoted to refuting "unorthodox" Marxists than to the defending of Marxism from its ideological rivals.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.