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CHINESE AND EUROPEAN GHOSTS.

There has lately been published a little book of Ghost Storis translated from the Chinese, of which the reviewer, dis- cussing it in the Literary Supplement remarks that the stories skim from world world, from life to death. The harriers against which we in the West, beat our hands in vain are for them. almost as transparent as glass." Indeed, the Chinese brave, or profess to have, much more certain beliefs about ghosts than any civilized European people, For them there are superior and inferior" ghosts, the superior leaving the body after death, and the inferior remaining in it. The inferior ghost, having neither conscience nur reason, and being indeed a mere survival of the energy of the body separate from the soul, is malignant and has a thirst for blood like that of Western vampires and weir-wolves. It is used in Chinese ghost stories to make the reader's Bosh creep whereas the superior ghost behaves romantically, if not rationally. It falls in love and inspires it; and, strange as. it may seem, these love affairs between living men and spirits sometimes have happy endings. But there is one: curious likeness between these Chinese ghost stories and our own; namely, that hoth deal with the most solemn and momentous subject merely for the amuse- ment of the reader. Any one reading the Chinese Stories would ask himself the

question,Da these people really believe in ghosts or do they not?" For, if they do. it is difficult to understand how they can amuse themselves with ghost stories so trivial and so light-hearted even in their horrors while, if they do not, it is equally difficult to understand how they can be amused or terrified by tales so incredible. And yet a China- can, reading our ghost stories, miglif ask himself just the same question, for he would find just the same lack of serious ness-them. They make more to do, Perhaps, about the introduction of a ghost and insist more upon the proofs of its appearance; but they use it for just the same purpose, namely, to amuse readers, who are tired of hearing only about the people of this world.

Probably in both cases glost stories are popular for the same reason; namely; that most Europeans and most Chinameir are not quite sure whether they believe in ghosts or whether they do not. The Chinese, with all their rites, and super- stitions, are very sceptical people; inded, so sceptical that they will neither believe nor disbelieve They will smile if any one insists that a supernatural tale is true, and they will: smile equally if any one insists that it is false. They will not commit themselves either in thought or in action; and they perform rites which seem to us superstitious so that they may be on the safe side if by any chance the incredible should be true. This state of mind betrays itself in their ghost stories. A Chinaman who has never been a ghost, and who has no real fear of ever becoming one, whether superior or inferier, has yet enough doubt abuit the possibility of their existence to amuse Himself with stories of their adventures, They are at any rate familiar to him, in legend. They'

I have, as it were, a kind of natural, or 334] supernatural, history and for the pur- posts of the tale he can throw himself but of his permanent attitude of scepti- cisar into a momentary attitude of belief. In this respect he is not very different from European readers. For most of them are at least faintly affected by some kind of superstition. Even if they are ready to sit down thirteen at table, they will probably refrain from hoasting that they have never had influenza and in the same way they keep enough of the old belief in ghosts to enjoy a ghost story, although their reason would revolt if a modern writer used a ghost is seriously as Shakespeare used the ghost in Hamlet. It is this complete scepticism, this absence of enhvinced belief or disbelief, that makes the trifling ghost story possible, just as it makes trifting superstitions possible. We get from both an amuse- ment which we could not get if wo either Beliered or disbelieved in them entirely.

There is, however, à modern difference between our attitude towards ghosts and the attitude of the Chinese which is likely to increase with time. We have never heard of a Chinese Psychical Research Society and their ghost stories show no signs of any scientific investigation into the evidence about ghosts. A European ghost story ofter insists that the ghost seer was a normal person and in his right. mind when the ghost appeared to him; it sens prepared for scepticism and anxious to overcome it. But in the Chinese stories ghosts come and go as a after of course, and as if every reader had met one. This, we believe, does not mean that every Chinaman is a firm believer in ghosts, but merely that the Chinese do not trouble themselves to sift the evidence. They are content with their scepticisin and will make no effort to end it either way. But our European science is the enemy of all scepticism that can be ended by any investigation of facts; and therefore we have a Psychical Research Society. We want to know the truth about ghosts as about other things, and it may be that the Psychical Research Society will kill the old kind of ghost has not given us a story. At present substitute. Its investigations have hither to been too inconclusive, and they are se long and painstaking that, however interesting they may be an fact, in fiction they would be as tedions as a complete report of an imaginary Chancery action. If, in course of time, they do provide us with a natural history of ghosts, the con- scientious story-teller will no doubt make use of it. Then we may have a Zola- among the writers of ghost stories with every incident taken from documents and with the ghost himself drawn from life, But the result will be realism, not romance; and realism about ghosts may turn out to be as depressing as realism about degenerates. The Times.

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