We read that M. Liegois contributes to a Paris journal an article describing a new hypnotic phenomenon, in the field of a " negative hallucination." This term describes a state in which the suggestion is obeyed, that a certain person or object in the field of vision should remain unseen. The state is explained as an annihilation of the perception before it reaches consciousness. The impression is received, but ignored. Having a third party to suggest to one of his subjects that the experimenter will be invisible to her, it is found that she does not hear him, see him, or even feel the prick of a pin which he holds, though acting normally toward all other persons. If, however, M. Liegois calls out impersonally, "Camille feels thirsty, Camille will drink a glass of water," she hears and obeys the command. If similarly told to stand at his side, she does so; and so on with every sense. While she does not hear him, she none the less really can hear him. There is a sort of dual personality, one-half of which obeys the negative suggestion; while the other is automatically regulated, and obeys any suggestion not directly in conflict with a previous one. The further development of this study may uncover the evil of hypnotism.
A new and complete edition of the works of Galileo is to be published, in twenty quarto volumes of five-hundred pages each, at the expense of the Italian Government. "And yet it moves!"
