"The Peckster Professorship" by J. P. Quincy is what one might call a psychical novel. The author seems to have caught the popular contagion among the novelists of the day and accordingly weaves a ??? thread through his story which gives it the appearance of a philosophical lecture rather than a novel. With a fair plot for a foundation he builds up a structure of mind imperishable, philosophy, astride counterpart, transcend ??al photography, ??? voyance, and ???notices, still the bewildered reader wonders whether he is still in his mortal body. Such a book may prove ??entertaining for those interested in psychical research, although the and ??? theories are too chimerical to be a ken seriously. It is not probable ??? believes in them himself. The book is well written, and is at times interesting; but every few ??? the philosophical cloud descends, and the reader gropes about in darkness.

[The Peckster Professorship, by I, P. Quincy, Houghton, Mifflin and Co. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1888.]