as "the Bible of British psychical researchers". Théodore Flournoy and William James both positively reviewed the book. It was negatively reviewed by psychologist George Stout who described the concept of the subliminal self as "baseless, futile, and incoherent." Andrew Lang and Gerald Balfour were unconvinced about some of Myers ideas. William McDougall in a detailed review for Mind also criticised the book. French psychologist Henri Delacroix commented that Myers "experimental metaphysics" was a failure. Psychologist G. T. W. Patrick criticised Myers concepts as a "metaphysical, not a psychological hypothesis." Myers' book greatly impressed Aldous Huxley. In 1961, Human Personality was re-published as an abridged version with Huxley's foreword, in which he remarked "an amazingly rich, profound and stimulating book." Strong praise for the book and a revival of interest in Myers' ideas appeared in the 2007 Irreducible Mind by Emily Williams Kelly, Alan Gauld and Bruce Greyson. Death In each of 1898, 1899, and 1900 Myers had severe attacks of influenza and also developed Bright's disease. At the end of 1900 he travelled abroad to try to restore his health. He died of pneumonia in Rome on 17 January 1901. Myers was buried in the graveyard of St John's Church, Keswick, between his father's grave and a gateway into the garden of the house where he was born. He was survived by his wife. A memorial tablet to Myers was erected in Rome's Protestant cemetery. Publications The Renewal of Youth, and Other Poems (1882) Phantasms of the Living: Volume 1 (1886) Phantasms of the Living: Volume 2 (1886) Science and a Future Life: With Other Essays (1893) Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death: Volume 1 (1903) Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death: Volume 2 (1903) See also Cross-Correspondences References Further reading Peirce, Charles S. (1887). Criticism on Phantasms of the Living: An Examination of an Argument of Messrs. Gurney, Myers, and Podmore''. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research 1: 150-57. External links 1843 births 1901 deaths 19th-century English poets 19th-century male writers 19th-century essayists Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge British bisexual writers English essayists English male poets English spiritualists English writers on paranormal topics Male essayists Parapsychologists People educated at Cheltenham College Bisexual academics English LGBT writers