pemExperiences in Spiritualism with D. D. Homeem by Viscount Adare was printed privately in 1869 at the request of Adare's father, the Earl of Dunraven. In order to make this remarkably rare book available to the public, and in memory of his father to whose title he succeeded In 1925 Adare agreed to the publication of a second edition with the Society of Psychical Research. The probable reason for the privacy of the first publication was that the Earl of Dunraven, being a Roman Catholic, disliked incurring the censure of the Church.ppAdare recorded 78 s ances and they are presented here. The phenomena recorded in the book are of a very wide range and embrace almost every spiritualistic manifestation.ppWe have not, on a single occasion, during the whole series of s ances seen any indication of contrivance on the part of the medium for producing or facilitating the manifestations which have taken place.ppThe nature of the phenomena, too, in most cases, was such as to exclude every suppos