Are the Dead Alive? The Problem of Psychical Research that the World's Leading Scientists Are Trying to Solve, and the Progress They Have Made, with Statements of Their Personal Belief by Sir Oliver Lodge, Count Leo Tolstoi, Dr. Cesare Lombroso, Dr. V. M…

xvi, 372 pp. Author's first book. Includes black-and-white photographic frontispiece and 33 other photos, including spirit photographs, examples of levitation, spirit writing, etc. An analysis of spiritualism from a scientific standpoint, by a an innovator of library science who studied under Melvil Dewey (about whom he wrote a biography). The ALA named him one of the 100 Most Important Leaders of Library Science and the Library Profession. Chapters in this work include: Introduction; The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism; The Mediumship of D.D. Home; Eusapia Paladino: The Italian Medium; The Later Mediumship of Eusapia Paladino; Obsession and Dual Personality; Clairvoyance and Clairaudience; Ghosts; What Are Ghosts? -- 'Materializations'; Telepathy; Premonitions; Mediumship; The Piper Case; Telepathy vs. Spiritualism; Conclusion.