Comment le font les Miracles en dehors de PÉglist

Abstract

WHY does not M. Dreyfous date his books? We are sure M. de Fonvielle cannot have noticed the suspicious omission. M. de Fonvielle is already pretty well known in France as a popular gossiper on what may be called the eccentricities of science. The present volume is quite equal in interest to anything he has published, and is likely, we should think, to be widely read in France. It is a series of stories, told with raciness and touches of sarcasm and humour, of the many impostures which have been perpetrated on the public by those who knew how to turn to account some of the results of science. Of course spiritualism comes in for a large share of notice, while the real miracles of science are pleasantly described in one or two concluding chapters. The book is altogether a very curious one, and evidences considerable research in out-of-the-way corners on the part of its author.

Comment le font les Miracles en dehors de PÉglist.

Wilfrid de Fonvielle. (Paris: Dreyfous.)