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 bamboozling generalities, no disguised personal grievances, no attempt to elucidate the universal will or discover the truth of the universe. Instead of abstruse dissertations, we get a simple recipe of how to feed and develop the mind. And often, the practical method suggested makes the pursuit a pleasant and sometimes profitable adventure.

Indeed, those Manuels for the People are as wonderful and entertaining, even as transporting as the Movies. Mind and Will Training: What It Is and How It Is Done, Soul-Culture, Psychometry, Phrenometry, Mental and Magnetic Healing: What They Are and How To Get Them In An Hour,—these are improvements, methinks, on the dissertations and lucubrations of acerbic cynics and umbrageous philosophers. They take you into an enchanted land, where no Pilate or shadow of a Pilate ever haunts the scene.

And with a few directions you learn the whole business of miracles. Then suddenly, you leap out of your cribbed and