first Graham had acknowledged the cheering and cries

of the crowd by bows and gestures, but Lincoln
warned him that such a recognition would be

considered incorrect behaviour. Graham, already a little
wearied by rhythmic civilities, ignored his subjects for

the remainder of his public progress.
Directly they arrived at his apartments Asano departed

in search of kinematographic renderings of
machinery in motion, and Lincoln despatched Graham's

commands for models of machines and small
machines to illustrate the various mechanical advances

of the last two centuries. The little group of
appliances for telegraphic communication attracted the

Master so strongly that his delightfully prepared
dinner, served by a number of charmingly dexterous

girls, waited for a space. The habit of smoking had
almost ceased from the face of the earth, but when he

expressed a wish for that indulgence, inquiries were
made and some excellent cigars were discovered in

Florida, and sent to him by pneumatic dispatch while
the dinner was still in progress. Afterwards came the

aeronauts, and a feast of ingenious wonders in the
hands of a latter-day engineer. For the time, at any

rate, the neat dexterity of counting and numbering
machines, building machines, spinning engines, patent

doorways, explosive motors, grain and water elevators,
slaughter-house machines and harvesting appliances,

was more fascinating to Graham than any
bayadere. "We were savages," was his refrain, "we

were savages. We were in the stone age--compared
with this. . . . And what else have you? "

There came also practical psychologists with some
very interesting developments in the art of hypnotism.

The names of Milne Bramwell, Fechner, Liebault,
William James, Myers and Gurney, he found, bore a

value now that would have astonished their
contemporaries. Several practical applications of

psychology were now in general use; it had largely
supersceeded drugs, antiseptics and anaesthetics in

medicine; was employed by almost all who had any need of
mental concentration. A real enlargement of human

faculty seemed to have been effected in this direction.
The feats of "calculating boys," the wonders, as Graham

had been wont to regard them, of mesmerisers,
were now within the range of anyone who could afford

the services of a skilled hypnotist. Long ago the old
examination methods in education had been destroyed

by these expedients. Instead of years of study, candidates
had substituted a few weeks of trances, and

during the trances expert coaches had simply to repeat
all the points necessary for adequate answering, adding

a suggestion of the post hypnotic recollection of
these points. In process mathematics particularly, this

aid had been of singular service, and it was now
invariably invoked by such players of chess and games

of manualdexterity as were still to be found. In fact,
all operations conducted under finite rules, of a

quasi-mechanical sort that is, were now systematically
relieved from the wanderings of imagination and emotion,

and brought to an unexampled pitch of accuracy.
Little children of the labouring classes, so soon as they

were of sufficient age to be hypnotised, were thus
converted into beautifullypunctual and trustworthy

machine minders, and released forthwith from the
long, long thoughts of youth. Aeronautical pupils,

who gave way to giddiness, could be relieved from
their imaginary terrors. In every street were

hypnotists ready to print permanent memories upon the
mind. If anyone desired to remember a name, a series

of numbers, a song or a speech, it could be done by
this method, and conversely memories could be

effaced, habits removed, and desires eradicated--a
sort of psychic surgery was, in fact, in general use.

Indignities, humbling experiences, were thus forgotten,
amorous widows would obliterate their previous

husbands, angry lovers release themselves from their
slavery. To graft desires, however, was still impossible,

and the facts of thought transference were yet
unsystematised. The psychologists illustrated their

expositions with some astounding experiments in mnemonics
made through the agency of a troupe of pale-faced

children in blue.
Graham, like most of the people of his former time,

distrusted the hypnotist, or he might then and there
have eased his mind of many painful preoccupations.

But in spite of Lincoln's assurances he held to the old
theory that to be hypnotised was in some way the

surrender of his personality, the abdication of his will. At
the banquet of wonderful experiences that was beginning,

he wanted very keenly to remain absolutely
himself.

The next day, and another day, and yet another day
passed in such interests as these. Each day Graham

spent many hours in the gloriousentertainment of
flying. On the third day he soared across middle

France, and within sight of the snow-clad Alps. These
vigorous exercises gave him restful sleep, and each day

saw a great stride in his health from the spiritless
anaemia of his first awakening. And whenever he was

not in the air, and awake, Lincoln was assiduous in the
cause of his amusement; all that was novel and curious

in contemporaryinvention was brought to him, until
at last his appetite for novelty was well-nigh glutted.

One might fill a dozen inconsecutive volumes with the
strange things they exhibited. Each afternoon he held

his court for an hour or so. He speedily found his
interest in his contemporaries becoming personal and

intimate. At first he had been alert chiefly for
unfamiliarity and peculiarity; any foppishness in their

dress, any discordance with his preconceptions of
nobility in their status and manners had jarred upon

him, and it was remarkable to him how soon that
strangeness and the faint hostility that arose from it,

disappeared; how soon he came to appreciate the true
perspective of his position, and see the old Victorian

days remote and quaint. He found himself particularly
amused by the red-haired daughter of the Manager

of the European Piggeries. On the second day
after dinner he made the acquaintance of a latter-day

dancing girl, and found her an astonishing artist. And
after that, more hypnotic wonders. On the third day

Lincoln was moved to suggest that the Master should
repair to a Pleasure City, but this Graham declined,

nor would he accept the services of the hypnotists in
his aeronautical experiments. The link of locality held

him to London; he found a perpetual wonder in
topographical identifications that he would have missed

abroad. "Here--or a hundred feet below here," he
could say, "I used to eat my midday cutlets during

my London University days. Underneath here was
Waterloo and the perpetual hunt for confusing trains.

Often have I stood waiting down there, bag in hand,
and stared up into the sky above the forest of signals,