Sir,--Mr. Massey's elaborate argument in favour of his own view and against mine needs no reply from me, as I am quite willing now to leave the question to the judgment of Spiritualists. I would point out however that there is this difference between our respective positions--that I maintain no "incredibility," no belief of "all the world," but simply that Mr. Massey was not justified in using such absolute terms, on the validity of which his whole case rested.

     With regard to my supposed "mistake," I now learn for the first time that the words a person "actually used," and the words "reported" in a newspaper are necessarily identical. My belief was, that very rarely are the actual words reported, especially by an interviewer who writes a sensational article. One of Fletcher's most intimate friends gave me his own private version of the words he used, but the reporter had given the sense so nearly that it was quite unnecessary to make any correction. I have received further communications from prominent Spiritualists agreeing with me that what is "incredible" to Mr. Massey is perfectly credible to them.

Alfred R. Wallace.