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[Illustration: DIAGRAMS ILLUSTRATING THE “GHOST” MACHINERY.
(_See p. 8._) (From a drawing by Mr. Barnard Chalon.)]
THE TRUE HISTORY
OF
THE GHOST;
AND
_ALL ABOUT METEMPSYCHOSIS_.
BY
PROFESSOR PEPPER,
AUTHOR OF “CYCLOPÆDIC SCIENCE SIMPLIFIED,” “THE PLAYBOOK
OF METALS,” AND “BOY’S PLAYBOOK OF SCIENCE,” ETC. ETC.
[Illustration]
CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED:
_LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE_.
1890.
[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]
POLYTECHNIC,
309, Regent Street, London, W.,
_Christmas, 1889_.
_To_ WALTER HUGHES, Esq.,
Messrs. Hughes, Masterman, & Rew,
59, New Broad Street.
MY DEAR SIR,
Will you allow me to dedicate this little work to you, as
some small recognition of the patience, care, and legal knowledge
you displayed in bringing to a successful issue the difficult
proceedings before the Attorney-General, Sir Roundell Palmer (now
Lord Selborne), and also those in Chancery, connected with the
sealing of my Ghost Patent by order of the late Lord Chancellor
Westbury, in September, 1863?
With a grateful sense of the personal kindness and attention
I have received from yourself and the other members of your Firm,
I am, my dear Sir,
Your old Client and sincere Friend,
THE AUTHOR.