Publisher's Synopsis
As a primer this book is excellent. Within such limited space it was impossible for the author to do more than give a slight survey of the subject, and this he has done well. There is particular interest for psychical researchers in the statement that "all over the world we meet with examples of the belief that objects which were once related to one another retain their connection though they may be separated." No doubt this idea has been developed in various fanciful and superstitious ways; but that there is a substratum of truth in the notion seems probable, at least to students of metapsychism, who are familiar with facts of psychometry and kindred phenomena.
In his chapter on the psychology of Magic, the writer remarks that large numbers of phenomena connected with magical practices are of a mysterious kind, and "are receiving the attention of psychologists of the present day."
-- The Annals of Psychical Science, Volume 5
