“I had taught him to read simple little words made from large letters pasted on pieces of cardboard. One Sunday morning my husband and I saw him toss one of these cardboards as if he wanted to have it read. The look of amazement on his face that followed was most interesting to us. Then he started to walk around and around that spot talking to himself. The cardboard had evidently gone right through her and he could not figure out how that could be. He used also to chase a little puppy all over the apartment, but we could never see it.”

Another woman writes: “Billy is very psychic. He sees the four elementals, or parps I should call them nature spirits. He used to be afraid of them until I explained to him what they were and that they had no power to hurt him; that they were there always around to help him, to make his good thoughts and wishes for others come true. He tells me he sees them through an eye that seems to be in the center of his forehead.”

Another says: “I saw a brownie once when I was a little girl and lived on a ranch in Montana. I played much by myself and used to tame the gophers and chipmonks and climb trees, and one day a little brownie ran out in front of me and was gone again quickly among the trees.”

OF COURSE not all children are spiritually minded, for advanced souls of all kinds are here in childish bodies at this time, as can be noted from newspaper stories about them. We have before us clippings telling about Jackie Grubb of Robbinsville, Iowa, 20 months old who is master of 1100 words; while a close second is Carol Lynn Rowe of Creston, Iowa, 21 months old, who can rattle off 600 words, if she wants to.

About a little negro poet four years old in New York City, Phillipa Duke Schuyler, who spelled out a 42 letter word without hesitation, and then proceeded to play the Mozart minuet, and tell of Christopher Columbus’ astonishment at not finding India. She then recited her latest poem, “A Baby on Death.” She is a great admirer of Charles Swinburne and his poems.

About a six year old boy of South Philadelphia, Louis Miller, a child prodigy, who can do mental sums faster than most people can do them on paper. When he is not demonstrating his ability at rapid calculation for the benefit of students in the University of