Beadle's Dime Handbooks (no. 5) (1867)

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Book of Dreams: Oe he THEIR _ ROMANCE AND MYSTERY; WITH A COMPLETE ae % Tnterpretation Dictionary. u LED FROM THE MOST ACCREDITED SOURCES Fo THB ** DIME SERIES.”

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CONTENTS, NTRODUCTORY, - - “=” ROMANCE OF DREAMS: «mbodying Dreams of all Kinds and Character, with the Construction placed upon them by the most Eminent Authorities, and Narratives of the Extraordinary Fulfil/ment of them, a: 7-49 ‘HE PHENOMENA OF DREAMS: A Physician's Views of the Subject, giving a Rational Soluticn of the Phenomena, with Instances ciied in Proors.+ <e Leo a es Sy eee MRS. CATHARINE CROWE’S TESTIMONY: Favoring the Supernatural Nature of Dreams, and a Beliefin their Revelations, - - «+ » 57-68 JEGTIONARY OF DREAMS: Comprising the most Complete Interpetation-Dic- “onary ever Prepared, embracing the whele 4\ppa- wobofBubjects, © © + + - + = 64

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INTRODUCTION. Dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts; They take a weight from off our waking toils; They do divide our being. They become A portion of ourselves, as of our time; And look like heralds of eternity. They pass like spirits of the past—they speak : Like sybils of the future, —Byron. The mystery which attaches to dreams has interested every generation and race of men from the beginning of the world. It is not our purpose to furnish food for super- stition by giving an undue importance to every vagary of the sleeping mind; but it would be treating with contempt the Bible records, and setting at naught the testimony of numerous great men among the ancients, to doubt that dreams often have been meant to convey serious warnings, or to convict skeptical minds, or to give intelligence of things occurring at a distance which were of the greatest importance to the dreamer. ‘To preserve Sarah un- sullied, God appeared to Abimelech in a dream. The flight into Egypt to avert from the infant Redeemer the effect of Herod’s wrath, was undertaken by reason of a warning communicated, to his earthly guardian in a vision, by Divinity. The exaltation of Joseph to the supreme command in the realm of the tropic mother of nations, and the promotion of Daniel in Babylon, and his prophecies, were wholly attributable to a like origin.” The Grecians and Romans attached oracular power to dreams, and history gives many instances of the singular connection between their sleeping thoughts and the events which followed. The poets too give their testimony to the respect in which dreams were held by them. ‘The quaint old Chaucer says: i Dreams be significations As well of joy asf tribulations, That folks endure in this life present: There needeth to make of this none argument.

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vi INTRODUCTORY. The German novelists make use of the relation of singu- zar dreams to great advantage; and all the northern na- tions of Europe are deeply imbued with a sense of their supernatural origin. The English novelist, Bulwer, in his ‘Pilgrims of the Rhine,” gives a strange story of the power of dreams on the mind. We know not whether the mind becomes so disentangled from the senses in sleep, as to have even a partial power of prophecy; we only know that the connection between the operations of the mind in a state of sleep with distant objects is sometimes very as- tonishing and mysterious. Physiologists tell us that in sleep the brain is collapsed, or in a comatose state; but that circumstance does not lessen—it rather increases the marvellous character of prophetic dreams. To the curious On this subject we would say, that in the Hneyelo- pedia Brittanica there is a fine essay on the nature of dreams which it may interest them to read, but from which our limited space forbids us to quote. Dull sleep instructs, nor sports vain dreams in vain. —Youna. The question of the phenomena of dreams is discussed quite ably in the two essays given in the body of this volume. Be they shadows of real things, or the things themselves, they never will cease to interest, to excite, and to command the sympathies of the human kind,

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THE Romance of Dreams. ALBATROSS. To dream of killing an albatross i3 an evil omen— Tux Syn. Ilow long in this same fit I lay, { have not to declare; But ere my living life return’d, I heard, and in my soul discern’d Two voices in the air. “Ts it he?” quoth one; “Is this the man? By him who died on cross, With his cruel bow he laid full low The harmless albatross. The spirit who bideth by himself In the land of mist and snow, He loved the bird that loved the man Who shot him with his bow.” Thé other was a softer voice, As soft as honey-dew; Quoth he, ‘‘ The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.” —AncieENT MARINER, ANGELS—UEAVEN. To dream of angels presages joy and prosperity with the fuljilment of our dearest hope—Acumet Surrn. St. Augustine relates o7 a brother in the church that, in a vision, he beheld the Golden City, and heard the song

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8 THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS of the ransomed, which so strengthened him in his relix gious faith, that doubts previously entertained were en- tircly banished from his breast.—Dreams: BY CHARLES A. MunGer. It has, nevertheless, pleased God, as appears in Holy Writ, to give very important counsel at times to saints, during sleep. St. Augustine reports that St. Monica, his mother, comprehended, by certain pleasing sensations, the revelations which it pleased God to make to her during sleep, and which her imagination represented to her dur- ing the dreams of the night.—De Sacy: On Dreams. ANCHOR. To dream of an anchor denotes security, and long deferred hopes realized.—THE SYBIL. At first all deadly shapes were driven Tumultuously across her sleep, And o’er the vast cope of bending heaven All ghastly visaged clouds did sweep; And, as toward the east she turn’d, She saw aloft in the morning air, Which now with hues of sunrise burn’d, A great black auchor rismg there; And wherever the lady turn’d her eyes, . It hung before her in the skies. The air was calm as it could be, There was no sight nor sound of dread, But that black anchor floating still Over the piney eastern hill, Maritanne’s Dream: Sieniey. APPARITIONS. Wien you dream of sceing an apparition, tt will be well to mark tie words and appearance of the person, dreamed of, as they are usually sent for warnings of wine impending dunger or loss. —THm SYBIL, Mrs. C—— and her daughter were sleeping in the same bed in Cheltenham, when the mother dreamed that her prother-in-law, then in Irclend, had sept for her; that-she entered his rgom, and saw him in bed, apparently dying. He requested her to kiss him, but, owing to his livid

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APPARITIONS. 9 appearance, she shrank from doing so, and awoke with horror of the scene upon her. The daughter awoke at the same moment, saying: ‘‘Oh, I have had sueh a fright ful dream!” ‘Oh, so have I,” returned the mother; J have been dreaming of my brother-in-law.” “My dream was about him, too,” added Miss C——. “T[ thought I was sitting in the drawing-room, and that he eame in wearing a shrond, trimmed with black ribbons, and ap- proaching me, he said: ‘My dear niece, your mother has refused to kiss me, but I am sure you will not be 80 un- kind!” By the first Irish payers that reached them, they learned of the death of this friend on the night of their singular dream.—Mrs. Crowr’s Nicur Sing.o7 Nature. Miss D , of G , one night dreamed that she was walking about the washing-greens, when a figure ap- proached, which she recognized as that of a beloved brother who was at that time with the British army in America. It gradually faded away into a kind of anato- my, holding up its hands, through which the light could be perceived, and asking clothes to dress a body for the grave. The dream recurred more than once the same night, and, apprehending some misfortune, Miss D noted down the date of the occurrence. . In due course of post, the news arrived that this brother had been killed at the battle of Bunker Hill.—Inip. A farmer, in Worcestershire, dreamed thut his little boy, of twelve years old, had falten from the wagon and was killed. The dream recurred three times in one night; but unwilling to yield to superstitious fears, he allowed the child to accompany the wagoner to Kidderminster fair. The driver was very fond of the boy, and he felt assured would take care of him; but having occasion to leave a parcel, the man bade the child walk on with the wagon, and he would meet him at a certain spot. On arriving there, the horses were coming quietly forward, but the boy was not with them; and, on retracing the road, the boy was found dead, having apparently fallen from the shafts, and been crushed by the wheels.—Inip. wo friends arrived at Megara, and Jodced in different places, One of the two was scarcely asleep, when he dreamed that his companion announced to him, with a melancholy air, that his host had formed a project to assassinate him, and entreated him to come as quickly as

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10 THE QOMANCE OF DKEAMS. possible to his succor. Upon this he awoke, but, com vinced it was only a dream, he went to sleep again, A second time his friend appeared, and conjured him to hurry, as his murderers were about to enter. Mucii dis- turbed, he was amazed at the recurrence of his dream, and prepared to go to his friend; but reason and fatigue gained the mastery, and he returned to bed. Iis friend then appeared the third time, pale, bleeding, disfigured. ““Wretch,” said he, “you did not come at my entreaty! It is now over; nevertheless, revenge me. At daybreak you will meet at the city gate a cart-load of dung; stop it, and have it unloaded: you will find my body concealed in the centre; inter me honorably, and pursue my mur- derers.” The friend arose, repaired to the gate indicated, found the cart, stopped the driver, and on searching found the body of his friend,—Ha.ivcinations, etc.: by Dx BoisMont. BATTLE. To dream of battles, of armies marching in ranks. of weapons, fortifications, and of any thing pertaining ta war, 73 an evil sign to the loving, and to all save ol diers,-—A RTEMIDORUS. There is one within Besides the things that we have seen and heard, Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch, A lioness hath whelped in the streets; And graves have yawned, and yielded vp their dead» Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds, In ranks, and squadrons, and right forms of war, Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol: The noise of battle hurtled in the air, Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan, And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets. O Cesar! these things are beyond all use, And I do fear them. —Juiivs Casar, Act 2p, Scenz %. BELLS RINGING. To dream of the ringing of tells betokens grigf, son vp, and anxiety —GerMan Dream Book “Ts it not strange that as ye sung, Seem’d in mine ears a death-peal rung,

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BBAUTY, Such as in nunneries they toll For some departing sister’s soul? Say, what may this portend ? Then first the Palmer siience broke The livelong day he had not spoke), '“ The death of a dear friend.” —W. Scorr, BEAUTY. To dream of beauty is a most favorable omen to those who labor industriously, for it is the nature and spring of all life and activity. And this is a good sign not only to travelers, but to those who propose remaining still, for it stirreth up even the indolent and unwilling to activity. So Venus Anadyomene, rising from the ocean, is ominous to sailors of storm and shipwreck, yet nevertheless preserves their lives, and brings to a fortu- nate conclusion labors aad negotiations which have scemed hopeless and desperate —ARTEMiDORUS. To dream of supernatural beauty 2 siyn of death— Tue SYBIL. Constantine, while sleeping in Ryzsn‘iran, dreamed that the tutelar guardian of the city, a vererable matron, sink- ing under the weight of years an@ iaGrwities, was suddenly transformed into a blooming maiden, whom his own hands adorned with all the symbols cf imperial greatness. The rubsequent splendors of the western capital signally veri- fied the vision.—Dreams: ny Cuartes A. MUNGER. Socrates, while incarcerated at Athens, said to Crito that he should die within three days, for that he had seen in a dream a woman of extreme loveliness, who, calling him by name, repeated this line from Homer; “On the third day you'll reach the fruitful Pthia.” Ang it fell ous precisely as he had foretold.—Ism. ** Was then my dream a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and torch to thee.’

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THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS, BIRDS—SINGING—SW ANS. To dream that you hear birds singing, indicates that you will soon hear pleasant news.—DaAs ReICHUALTIGR TRAUMBUCH, To dream of beautiful white swans, presages wealth; but to hear them sing, is a sign of death—Van Gurs TENBERGE. Socrates dreamed that he held on his knees a young cygnet(young swan), which on asudden became full-fledgéd, and flew up singing most sweetly. The next day Plato was placed under his tuition, when he said: ‘This is the bird.” And the golden-tongued philosopher, when about to die, dreamed that he had become a swan and went from tree to tree.—Dreams: py Cuartes A Munoer. AnTEMIDoRUS says: Zo see an eagle perched on a high crag or tree, or other lofty place, is a good omen for the brave and bold, but evil for cowards ; and tt is also an encouraging sign for you to dream of beholding one calmly soaring alone. But to be borne away upon an eagle presuges death to kings and magnates, And of doves, he says: To dream of doves, presages pleasant and agreeable relations with the gentler sex ; for they are birds sacred to Venus—ring-doves referring indeed to those of evil life, but the house-pigeon to honest maidens aud matrons. To dream of a white dove alone and soaring presages the death of some one beloved.—Tum Sysu.. I dreamed that a gray old man stood before me, with a beautiful white dove perched upon his head. ‘As I looked, the bird took flight, and I started up from sleep, exclaim: ing: “The boy is dead!” In a few hours my beautiful boy was dead,—Lerrer ro Aurnor.

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BLIND—BOAR. 18 BLIND. To dream of being blind is a token that you trust tn an enemy. To dream of seeing a blind person, denotes that you will learn something desirable—Tum SyBu. She thought that, walking alone in a forest, she met a blind man in a little hut. She approached, and inquired whether he was born blind, or had become so by accident. He replied that he was born blind. ‘ You do not know, then,” said she, “ what is lieht, which is so heautiful and agreeable; nor the sun, which ‘has so much brilliancy and beauty.” © “I have never,” said he, “enjoyed the sight of that beautiful object, nor can I form any idea of it; but I do not the less believe it to be of marvellous splendor.” The blind man seemed then te change both his voice and countenance, and, assuming an air of authority, said: ““My example should teach you that wonderful things, which eseape our sight, are no less true nor desirable be- eause we are unable to comprehend them.” —Cuers-p’au- VRE Dr Bossvet. BOAR. You will be betrayed, persecuted, and pursucd,._-G t 4&4N DreaM-Book. So ona day he laid him doune vo sleepe, And so befel that in his slepe he taought, That in a forest fast he walk’d to wepe, For love of her that him these yaines wrought, And up and doune as he that forest sought, He dream’d he saw a bore with tuskes great, That slept agenst the brighte sunes heat, And by this bore, fast in her armes fold, Lay kissing aye his lady, bright Creseide, For sorrow of which, wh¢n he gan it behold, And for despite, out of his sleepe he breide, Ard loud he eried on Pandarus, and seide, **0, Pandarus, tow know I, crop and root, Taam but dead, thera nis none otlier boot.” ~~CHAavcem

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THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS BOAT—W ATER. To dream that you are floating over the water in 4 boat ts a@ good omen, particularly if you are in love. But it is very unpropitious should you dream of being - alone, or that the boat upsets —-GERMAN Dream Book. Deep water denotes trovble—Mrs, Crown. To dream of a tranquil, glassy lake, presayes joy and content.—ARTEMIDORUS. “¥ fancied a scene where not a tree or hill was in sight; but only a flat, grassy plain, through which ran a narrow, deep, and sluggish streain toward its outlet—a small lake hwo or three miles away. About a mile from where I stood, by this mystic river, and in the direction of the lake, szrew a single clump of willows, the only shrubbery in the andscape. A moment I gazed to comprehend the scene, ind then its meaning became apparent. A little boat was moored at my feet. Myself, that is my body, appearing just as I look to my self in the mirror, and dressed in its gustomary habiliments, the hair in ringletsnot at all satu- rated by the water, laid floating upon the surface of the stream. I, that is my other self, standing on the shore, became conscious that my body was not obeying the law of that lonely river, by which-every thing that was cast upon it should float onward to the silent Inke beyond. f became troubled, and stepped nearer to the margin of the stream, to touch the immovable body with my feet; and, as I did so, I discovered that in my arms I was carrying the body of « little dead babe, which it was my duty to east into the stream in such = manner that it would be borne out to the sea beyond. IT feared to make the ven- ture, however, being apprehensive that it might sink there when it should sink only in the like. It seemed to be the ¢ coming on of twilicht, and I would not debate the chances any longer; 80 L loosed the boat from its moorings, and -psepped into it, with my charge, resolved to glide down the sluggish current to the lake, which received its waters and whatever was cast into them, and there drop the babe beneath the waves myself. Laying it in my lap, I tried to hasten my voyage with the occasional help of an oat; but as [ passed my body, lying so still at the water’s edge, I became possessed of an anxious fear, that should it reach

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BREAD. 15 the willows in good time, it would be caught and lodged in their projecting roots: and, taking hold of the skirt of the dress, I drew it along with my left hand, while I rowed with my right. My last thought before waking was, that it would be quite dark before my strange duty would be done; and a subdued feeling of horror sent a chill over me that I felt after I was awake.” Of this singular dream the dreamer afterwards wrote: ‘* My soul is in the ‘boat’ now. The current is sluggish in this deep and dark river, but with the oar of a holy purpose, I shall yet reach the sea of peace, where are to lie buried the ‘dead babe’ of my unhappy love, and the cast-off body of my former egotism and selfishness. The willows of a vain regret shall not delay the burial. Though lost in the gloom of grief, I shall not falter in my purpose.”—Mars. Barrirt. BREAD. fo dream of seeing loaves of bread denotes plenty and success in love-—DREAM Book. A lady, not long since, related to me the following eireum- stance: Her mother, who was at the time residing in Edinburgh, in a house, one side of which looked into a wynd (an alley), while the door was in the High street, dreamed that, it being Sunday morning, she had heard a sound which attracted her to the window; and while look- ing out, had dropped a ring from her finger into the wynd below; that she had, thereupon, gone down in her night- clothes to seek it, but when she reached the spot it was not to be found. Returning, extremely vexed at hev loss, as she re-entered her own door she met a respectable look- ing young man carrying some loaves of bread. On ex- pressing her astonishment at finding a stranger ther@ "at so unseasonable Wn hour, he answered by expressing his at seeing her in such a situation. She said she had dropped her ring, and had been round the corner to seek it; where- upon, to her delighted surprise, he presented her with her lost treasure. Some months afterward, being at a party, she recognized the young man seen in her dream, and learned that he was a baker. He took no particular notice of her on that occasion; and, [ think, two years had elapsed before she met him again. This second meeting led to an acquaintance. which terminated in marriage, Mas. Crowr’s Nicut Sine or Nature,

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THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS, BLOOD. To dream of collecting blood betokens gold and succes, in love. To see blood running presages death—GErR- mAN Dream-Book. Calphurnia here, my wife, stays me at home: She dreaiat to-night she saw my statue, Which like a fountain, with a hundred spouts, Did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans “Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it. And these does she apply for warnings, portents, And evils imminent; and on her knee Hath begg’d that I will.stay at home to-day. —JuLius Casar, Act 2p, Scene 2p, BROTHER. To dream of a dead brother is ominous of misfortune, * ARTEMIDORUS. Beside that couch his brother’s form, Lord Edmund seem’d to stand, Such and so pale as when in death, He grasp’d his brother’s hand. He started up, each limb convulsed With agonizing fear; He only heard the storm of night— ’*T was music to his ear. When lo! the voice of loud alarm His inmost soul appalls; “What ho! Lord William, rise in haste! The water saps thy walls!” He rose in haste; beneath the walls He-saw the flood appear; [t hemm’d him round ; ’twas midnight now; No human aid was near. —Sovrucy. CHANGE—MUTATION, Changing and varied dreams are of good omen, espe- wally to women, and to invalids. I once dreamed, when a young girl, a dream of three nights’ duration, quite continuous and consecutive, which divided my life, by an allegory, into four parts—the last a “mere conclusion, Very brief. The first. night, I walked in

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CHILDREN—CHIMES. 17 - the woods, in June, with a young person at my side: and was very happy. The next nis ght, I was a fugitive, hiding in all out of the way places from this same person. On the third night, I stood alone in a country covered with iee, with a frozen river in the midst of it, thinking T was glad to be even here, at liberty, All at once my dream changed back, and the person who had given me so much pleasure and trouble, was once more my dearest friend. All but the last part has come true.—B****, CHILDREN, A dream of melancholy omen, generally foreboding sickness. Children running about a house, betoken domestic trouble—Ponrry AND Mystery oF DREAMs. A young unmarried lady of his acquaintance has a most pertinacious dream about a child which she is foreed to take care of. All her anxiety in her dream is—not about herself, but about this child, which is a very troublesome child, and is always falling down precipices, or tumbling into ditches, or getting into the way of mad bulls. The tormenting child, so constantly recurring in the young lady’s dreams, has semetimes so worried her, that she has felt quite tired by day from watching the child through its perils inthe night.—A Puysician’s Dreams. Jane Eyre, just berore her false marriage with Rochester was to have been consummated, has this dream of the “ svief-child;” and it is mentioned by several authors ag having the same signification. CHIMES. To dream of the ringing of bells betokens grief, sor- row, and enmity.—GERMAN DREAM-BOOK. [ was, many years ago, sleeping at an old-fashioned inn, ata small town on the Rhine. In the middle of the dark night, I was half-awakened by what seemed to me a small chime of bells, just such as a musical clock, of the old for- ¢ign make, might be supposed to jangle forth to mark the hour. Coincidently with this sqund, the thought of a friend whom I had sent off to Madeira, hopefally, for the benefit of a milder climate, rushed into my mind, an? 7 2 =>

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18 THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS said to myself: ‘I feel very anxious about Richmond. 1 can’t help thinking he is worse.” The following morning I looked all over my apartments to find the clock that had chimed. There was no clock in the room. Then I rang up the garcon, and questioned him as to the existence of a chiming clock in any contiguous apartment. Not only was there no chiming clock in the house, but (as far as the waiter was aware) not even in the town. I was so struck with the oddity of my impression that I had heard a chime of bells, and ty my connecting the circumstance with the illness of my friend in Madeira, that I marked down in m+ pocket-bvok the date of the oceurrence, and of my uncen- fortable feeling abcut Richmond. The exact hour when |] seemed to hear the small ghostly chime, was, of conrse, not precisely known to me, but by the complete darkness of the room, the season being early September, I guessea that the thing had taken place before four o’clock. A fortnight or three weeks later, I received a letter frem a brother of Richmond, announcing to me my friend’s death at Madeira on the night which ‘Thad eoted down in my pocket-book; hour n ot mentioned, Perba ps a year after this, I handed down to dinner, and sat nert to, the widow of Richmond, who was on a visit (in Tendon) to this brother of her late husband. I conversed with ber about her husband’s illness and death. He had been better on first arriving at Funchal, and his death had come on sud. denly. After I had mentioned my fancy of *ke chimes, and the singular impression connected with that fancy, Mrs. Richmond said: ‘This is most remarkable! On the night he died, he was worried, as be had been several times before, by the chimes of a town cloc k, which jarngled out a wretched tune, every hour, from a belfry not far from eur house. I myself, was worried on his ace Sunt, by those chimes; and I shall always <s.nnect a painful idea with chimes of every kind, fer the bells were actually rmging at the very morrent wher m y fear husband breathed his last in my arms.’’~ A 1n1$)<) 42’s Aaeems,

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CLIMBING-~—COMETS, 19 CLIMBING—LADDER. To sce a ladder, signifies that the dreamer wit travel. To climb one, presages rank and dignity. To dream of falling from a ladder, forebodes sorrow and destruction, —VAN GEPSTENBERGK, Queen Anne Well, say on. fvochford 4 thought that you and I, for years and years, Had climb’d the rundles of a slippery ladder. I knew not why we clamber’d; though above A blazing halo, like a sunset sky, Shone glorious, and toward it we bent our steps, Urged by resistless impulse. You were first; And when I halted, by the labor tired, Or dizzy at the awful depth beneath, You cheer’d me on, and with your nimple feet Spurn’d the frail rounds, till, sunder’d ’neath your tread, They fell around me. Woeful, woeful sight! Each stick in falling, to a ghastly head Was metamorphosed. Here Queen Katharine’s fell; There Wolsey’s; More’s and Fisher’s, spouting blood : And many a one whose face I could not catch, These, as they pass’d me, whisper’d in mine ears A horrid curse, and grinn’d, and wink’d their eyes. Queen Anne, Good heaven, how awful! Was there more of this? Rocnford. Ay, far more dreadful fancies. Anné Botern: Boxer. COMETS—FALLING-STARS. To dream of these extraordinary ethereal substances, #3 ominous of war, plague, famine, and death.—DReAM- Book. To dream of the stars w the most favorable omen for mén.—ASTRAMPSYCHIUS. When beggars die, there are no comets seen : The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. JuLius Casar, Act 2p, Scene 2p, On the 16th of August, 1769, Frederick II., of Prussia,

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20 THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS ts said to have dreamed that a star fell from heaven and occasioned such. an extraordinary glare, that he could with difficulty find his way through it. He mentioned the dream to his attendants, and it was afterwards observed that it was on that day Napoleon was born.—Mrs. Crowz. CROSS. To dream of a crucifix denotes great good fortunée.— Van KLINGELBERG. To dream of being marked with a cross, i a sign of grief and loss. —Tue Srey. Constantine, on the night preceding the last battle against Maxentius, was admonished in a dream to inscribe the shields of his soldiers with the celestial sign of God. . In- terpreting this as a promise of victory, he executed the command, and his adversary was overthrown.—Drtams: By Cuarces A. Moncer. When King James came to England, at the time of the plague, he went, accompanied by old Cambden, into the country, to visit Sir Robert Colton. There he dreamed that his eldest son, yet a child, who was in London, had a bloody cross on his forehead, as though he had been wounded by a sword, Alarmed at this apparition, he sought to allay his fears by prayer, and in the morning related the occurrence of the night to Sir Cambden, who assured the monarch it was only a dream, and begged hint not to be disturbed. The same day the king received a letter, announcing the death of his son by the plague.~ DrummMonp’s Works, p. 224. CRYING OUT. To dream.that you hear any one crying out for aid, denotes that the person dreamed of is in tmminent dan- ger —PoETRY AND Mystery or DREAMS. Should you hear a voice distinctly utter any thing in a dream, give heed to what you have heard, for i wil become true,—Tue Sreyu. Hamilear, the Carthaginian general, when besieging Syracuse, dreamed that he heard a ¥eice announcing to

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CUPID~DEPARTED. 2 him that he should sup the succeeding day in that city, When the morning dawned, a great sedition arose between the Carthaginian and Sicilian soldiers. The Syractsans, being advertised of this, sallied out, attacked the camp suddenly, took Hamilear prisoner—and thus his dream was fulfilled.—Dreams: py Cuartes A. MunGer, A German professor lately related to a friend of mine, that, being some distance from home, he dreamed his father was dying, and was calling for him. The dream being repeated, he was so far impressed as to. alter his plans, and return home, where he arrived in time to re- ceive his parent’s last breath. He was informed that the dying man had been calling upon his name repeatedly, in deep anguish at his absence.—Mns. Crowe. CUPID. To dream of seeing the god of lqpe, either tn person, or in pictures or statues, is a very favorable omen for lovers. But the dream is most favorable when you see him in white marble, for this denotes purity and con- tency in love—VAN KLINGELBERG. I thought this heart enkindled lay On Cupid's burning shrine : I thought he stole thy heart away, And placed it near to mine, I saw thy heart begin to melt, Like ice before the sun; Till both a glow congenial felt, And melted into one! —Moonre. DEPARTED. To dream of the departed or dead, is a sign indicative of neither good or bad, if they express no emotion. If they appear angry, it is an evil omen; but if pleasant , and affable, you may anticipate great good fortune — ARTEMIDORUS, A young lady, a pative of Ross-shire, in Scotland, was devotedly attached to an officer, then with Sir John Moore in the Spanish war. The constant danger to which he was exposed preyed on her spirits, so that she pived ar4 fell

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}2 THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS. into ill-health. Finally, one night, in a dream, she saw her lover, pale, bloody, and wounded in the breast, enter her apartment. He drew aside the curtains of the bed, and, with a mild look, told her he had been slain in battle, bidding her, at the same time, to be comforted, and not ‘take his death to heart. The. consequences of this dreain were fatal to the poor girl, who died a few days afterward, desiring her parents to note down the date of her. dream, which she was confident would be confirmed. It was so. The news sliortly after reached Eng'’and that the officer had fallen at the battle of Corunna, on the very day on the night of which his mistress had beheld the vision.—Puros- OPHY OF SLEEP. A reappearance is mentioned in the biography of Wil- liam Smellie, author of “ Philosophy of Natural History.” Intimately acquainted with the Rey. William Greenlaw, they had entered into a solemn compact, in writing, signed with their blood, that whoever died first should return, if possible, and testify to the survivor regarding the world of spirits; but if the deceased did not appear within a year after the day of his death, it was to be concluded that he could not return. Greenlaw died on the 26th of June, 1774. As the first anniversary of his death approached, and he had made no sign, Smellie became extremely anxious, and even lost rest during several successive nights, in expectation of his friend. At last, fatigued with watching, and having fallen aleep in his arm-chair, @Green- law appeared to him, stating that he was now in another and a better world, from which he had found great difficulty in cominunicating with the friend he had left behind, and adding, as to that world, that “the hopes and wishes of its inhabitants were by no means satisfied, for like those of the lower world, they still looked forward in the hope of eventually reaching a still happier state of existence.” I awoke from a dre»m—well! and have not others dreamed? Such a dream! but she did not overtake me, I wish the dead would rest, however. Ugh! how my blood chilled—and I could not wake—and—and—heigho! ....+ + Ido not like this dream—I hate its foregone con- clusion, And am I to be shaken by shadows? Ay, when they remind us of—no matter—but if I dream thus again, I will try whether al/ sleep has like visions.—Byxon’s JOURNAL,

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DROWNING—ENTERTAINMENTS, DROWNING. To dream of drowning alone, presages the acquisition aj’ money or property ; but if drowned by another per- 80%, it is ominous of loss or ruin.—V ON GE&STENBERGK A gentleman, who resided near one of the Srottish lakes, dreamed that he saw a number of persons surrounding a body which had just been drawn out of tne water. Ou app! aching the spot, he perceived that it was himself, and that the assistants were his own friends and retainers. Alarnved at the life-like reality of the vision, he resolved to elu\le the threatened destiny by never venturing on the Jake again. On one occasion, however, it became quite in- dispensable that he should do so; and, as the day was quite ca'm, he yielded to the necessity, on condition that he shoull be put ashore at once on the opposite side, while tha rest of the party proceeded to their destinations, where he would meet them. This was accordingly done: the boat skimmed gayly over the smooth waters, and errived safely at the rendezvous, the gentlemen laughing at the superstition of their companion, while he stood smiling on the bank to receive them. But, alas! the fates were inexorable: the little promontory on which he stood was undermined by the water; it gave way beceath his feet, apd life was extinct before he could be rescued.—Mars. Crowe. © Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! Wheat dreadful noise of water in mine ears! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes! —Kuine Ricuarp II. ENTERTAINMENTS. To dream that you are called to feasts or entertain. ments, presoges unexpecied good fortune and success im your undertakings.—V ON GERSTENBERGK. The vast and magnificent ban queting-ro6m Was of marble, Egyptian in form and ix gloom; And around, wild and dark as a demon’s dread thought, Strange shapes, full of terror, yet beauty, were wrought The ineffable sorrow that dwells in the fuce Of the Sphinx wore a soft and mysterious grace,

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24 THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS. Dinz, even amid the full flood of light, pour’d From a thousand high clustering lamps on the board ; Those lamps—each a serpent of jewels and gold, That seem’d to hiss forth the fierce flame as it roll’d, Back flash’d to that ray the rich vessels that lay Profuse on the tables in brilliant array ; And clear through the crystal the glowing wine gleam’d, And dazzling the robes of the revelers seem’d. - —Mrs. Osaoopn. I dream’d last night we met at board, And eat together, frank and free ; I gave him bread, I gave him salt, And he pour’d red wine out for me— The man that sees the sun in sleep, Should never wake to clouds and showers. — C. G. Levanp. FIRMAMENT—CLOUDS. Te tream of white clouds presages happiness. To see them rising to the heavens, indicates a journey to those who are at home, or a speedy return to those who are away: and a knowledge of hidden things to all. Gold. en or tawny clouds betoken ill-fortune ; misty or foggy clouds are a sign of anxiety and trouble, while black oncs denote tempests and trovible —ARTEMIDORUS. Strange appearances of the heavens, scen in a dream, betoken public evils, I looked up to heaven, and saw a sea-dog sailing in the air.» When he. had passed, the clouds descended toward me, and my eyes contemplated the most varied objects. The house of God was in the midst, surrounded with a clear blue cloud, and resplendent with colors unknown upon theearth. Inevery color were thousands of men whose robes were tinted with the same hue: all their faces turned toward the habitation of the Most High. A charm- Ing woman dressed in dazzling clothes, with a crown upon her head, came out. She was accompanied by three an- gels, one 6n the right, the other on the left, and another stood behind her; they pointed to a crown that reflecs ‘he most brilliant colors. —Magasin PsycHoLoaigue.

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FIRE, MAIDEN. “J dream’d I saw a snowy cloud Sail like a spirit o’er the blue: It bent not in its course, nor bow’d; What meant the form of silver hue?” SEER. * A happy life—a title proud, A fortune grand—a lover true.” MAIDEN. * But. ere my cloud its course had run, It changed its hue of snowy white, And melting in the setting sun, Died in a gold and crimson Jight !” SEER. *Thou’lt die at last a mournful nun, If Lhave read thy fortune right.” —Von HALuserea, RIRE. To dream of an ordinary fire, burning briskly upon the hearth, is a favorable omen for those who desire to live happily at home, but a large conflagration presages dire calamity. An extinct fire portends death or disap- pointment.—ARTEMIDORUS. To dream of seeing a lighted torch in the hands of another person, forebodes evil. A torch or firebrand burning by ttself, signifies a reward ; tf extinguished, tt indicates arrest by justice—VON GERSTENBERGEK. To see one’s house burning, ts an evil omen to all, wna one betokening death to the owner.—ARTEMIDORUS lose to my bedside she did stand, Showing me there a firebrand ; She told me, too, as that did spend So drew my life unto an end. Three-quarters were consumed of it: Only remain’d a little bit, Which will be burnt up by-and-b¥ ; Then, Julia, weep, for I must die, —HeEgrice.

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THE ROMANCH OF DREAMS, Lord Hamleton dream’d in his dreame, In Carvel, where he laye His halle were all on fire, His ladye slayne or dye. Buske and boune, my merry men all, Even and goe ye with me, s%or I dream’d that my halle was on fire, My !adye slayne or dye. fie buskec and bouned him, And }ike a worthe knight, And when he sawe his hall burning, His haste was no dele light. Ritson’s ANoteNt Sones: Batuap or Capr. Carr. Just previous to a legal difficulty which undermined the fortunes of a relative at whose house I then was, I dream. ed that the whole foundation of his house was in that state of burning when it still ppeared whole, but was, in fact, a great firebrand; being, though still glowing, reduced to a charred state: a very apyropriate symbol of the gentle. man’s worldly estate.—ANoN, o@ FISH. To catch many ana great fist in dreams, says ARTE- MIDORUS, 73 @ pleasant and luerative omen to all save those who exercise a sedentary hadit, or calling. I have heard of a lady who, whenever a misfortune was impending, dreamed that she saw a large fish. One night she dreamed that this fish had bitten-two of her little boy’s fingers. Immediately afteward a sehool-fellow of the child’s injured those very two fingers by striking them with a hatchet.—Mrs. Crowr’s Niaur Siaz or Nature, FLOWERS. To dream of flowers is a most auspicisus omen—buk only if they wre in season.— ARTEMIDORUS. Flowers out of season portend death—AcuMET . To dream of Roses ts &@ most unfavoradcle omen for those who propose undertaking any thing requiring se- crecy, and also for the sick. But to alé vthers they presage happiness—ARTEMIDORUS,

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FLOWERS. 27 DaFFoDILs presage good-fortune to shepherds, and to al who are in trouble. But to the sick it is a sign of death. — A RTEMIDORUS. To dream of Daisies presages noble, constant, and honorable love. —GERMAN Dream-Book. To dream of Ivy indicates a variety of good-fortune. Tf you seem to pull the vine or pluck its leaves, you. will enjoy continued good health, and make many new and true friends, To see ivy or be crowned with it, presages feasts and revelry, triumph and vutory JESSAMINE 07 JASMIN, seen in dreams, presages the fullest realization of a lover's hopes—GERMAN DREAM- Book. Linies predict joy ; Warrr-Liuries, danger from the sea, Out of season, idle hopes—VON GERSTENBERGK, To dream of MyrtuE is a most favorable sign for lovers, especially to’ ladies. And it is a good omen to agriculturalists, since tt is sacred both to Ceres and Venus,—A RTEMIDORUS. King Habor dream'd a mystic dream As he slept in tke silent night, And told it to his mother In the early morning light. “T dream’d I rode in greenwood wild, No other man was there; There grew two roses round my arm, And both were young and fair. “There grew two roses round my arm, And both were fair and young; The birds upon the linden bough, They praised the flowers and sung.” And no one in King Habor’s hall Could read the dream aright, Only his mother knew it well, And warm tears dimm’d her sight, “ Although thou fated art to win A maiden white and red, Yet I am doom’d to wail and wee ‘ For my son will soon be dead.

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THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS, “ And if thou fated art to win And wear thy fair young wife, Then I am doom’d to wail and weep, For she'll cost thee body and life.” A gentleman, an intimate friend of mine, dreamed, during his courtship, that the lady of his love came ta him, as he sat on a mossy bank in a greenwood, and pre- sented him with a white lily, in whose cup was a tiny, naked child. The dream was laughed at and forgotten, until after his marriage to this lady, and the birth and naming of their first child, when it occurred to him that bis dream was verified, for he had been presented with a little fairy, and its name was Liny. As one enamor’d is upborne in dream, O’er lily-paved lakes mid silver mist, To wondrous music. —SHELLEY. FLYING. To dream of flying presages both pleasure and peril, To jly in dreams betokens eminence. —NIcEPuORUS. The night before Cesar was assassinated, he dreamt at intervals that he was soaring above the clouds on wings, and that he placed his hand in the right hand of Jove.—« De Quincey. GARMENTS. To dream of finding apparel, indicates prosperity. To wash garments, betokens according to the German dream prophets, traveling, or a sudden change tn affairs. To buy or make clothes, presuges festivity and merriment. To dream of wearing torn and dirty apparel, implies sivife and quarrel. Tobe handsomely and becomingly dressed, is favorable to your prospects in life, particularly if the clothes be new. If the clothes be white, you will succeed tn your first undertaking, and prosper in love. Black is unlucky, blue denotes happiness, yeliow inclines to good fortune, purple and scarlet are ominous of evil, but crimson presages a good old age A eartely of

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GEMS. 29 colors betoken a strange and eventful life. To dream of wearing your usual garments at the proper season of tha year, t3 fortunate, and tndicates a continuance of good health —Portry AND Mystery or DrREAms, You must know, that, in a dream, I was invited to a bril: liant tea-party, at the house of the Princess Almaldasonghi. As I reached the middle of fhe room, clothed in my finest dress coat, I set about addressing her in the most flatter- ing matter, when, on throwing a complacent look upon my costume, I perceived that I had forgotten my breeches! —Horrman’s Strange Srorizs. I dreamed another night, that I was only twenty years of age, and that I was dancing a quadrille with a beautiful lady. I had expended my last crown to improve the ap- pearance of my coat. I go; I mingle with the crowd, beautifully dressed and sparkling with. jewels, that is clustering around the door of the saloon, when an accursed spaniel dog opened the stove-door before me, and said: ““Mr. Beauty, through this hole, if you please, you. will take the trouble to pass!”—lIsrp. GEMS—JEWELRY., To dream of gems, i a most fortunate and favorable omen. But to lose them, forebodes evil—Porrry or DREAMS. He who dreams of green gems (the Emeraup) wilt become renowned, and meet with truth and fidelity.— ACHMET. PEARLS signify a torrent of tear's,—ASTRAMPSYCHIUS, It is a favorable omen for a lady to dream of brace lets, for she shall obtain them.—ARTEMIDORUS. Come, let me clasp them, dearest, on thine arms; For these are of those worthy, and are named In the foundation stohes of the bright city, Which 1s to be for the immortal saved, Pheir last and blest abode; and such their hue, The golden green of paradisal plains Which lie about it boundlessly, and more Intensely tinted with the burning beauty

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THE ROMANCE OF DREAMA& Of God’s eye, which alone doth fight that lana, Than our earth’s cold grass garment with the sui, Take them, loves There are ve nobler earthly ornaments, Than jewels of the city of the saved. FP EsTue See these pearls, that long have slept These were tears by naiads +729 For the loss of Marinel. I slept, and dreaming waader’a The hall of an enchanted palace, And from some viewless hand I too& An emerald-lighted chalice. I quaff'd from it the hquid tight, And instant to my charmed viet, Above, around me, everywhere A thousand radiant fairies flew. High in the center of the dome, single lustrous diamond burn’, That to and fro swunz beaming the And shed soft beauty through the ait, And all it touch’d %o glory turn’dg Proud, carved colums rose aroun by Of marble pure aad white, Engarlanded with costly gems, That fill’d the hall with color’d lights And fair as flowers the beings were That floated here and there; Deep eyes, whose looks were words of lovec. And tones like music in a dream— And fair soft hair, that loosely fell With a pale, golden, moonlight gleam: And one, more lovely than the rest, Because more kind, behind me stole, And murmur’d: “ Be the wish confess’d, That dearest seems unto thy soul. And dwelleth what thou dost desire, In earth or water, air or fire, tt shall be thine—the fairy fate Doth on thy instant bidding wait.” Mrs. Osaoop GOLD—TREASURE. If you dream of holding or handling gold, you will atain your last wish— ASTRAMPSYCHIUS,

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GRAIN. 31 To dream of buried tregsure is called unlucky, yet has often been found indicative of good fortune.—Tur Sry. A Madam Von Militz found herself under the necessity of parting with a property which had long been in her family. When the bargain was concluded, and she was preparing to remove, she solicited permission to carry away with her some little relic, as a memento of former days—a request which the new proprietor uneivilly de- nied. On one of the nights that preceded her departure from the house of her ancestors, she dreamed that a voice spoke to her, and bade her go to the cellar and opena part of the wall, where she would find something which nobody would dispute with her. Surprised with her dream, she sent for a bricklayer, who, after long seeking, discovered a place which seemed less solid than the rest. A hole was made, and_in a niche was found a goblet which contained somethin#which looked like a pot-pourré. On shaking out the contents, there lay at the bottom a small ring, on which was engraven the name of Anna Von Militz. A friend of mine, Mr. Charles Kirkpatrick: Sharpe, has some coins that were found in exactly the same manner. The child of a Mr. Christison, in whose house his father wea lodging, in the year 1781, dreamed that there was a treasure hid in the cellar. Her father had no faith in the dream; but Mr. Sharpe had the curiosity to have the place dug up, and a copper pot full of coins was fomd.—Mrs. Crowe's Nicut Sipe or Naturs, GRAIN, To dream you are ingreen fields is a favorable omen ; but to dream of seeing fields of ripe grain, and ang creabure feeding upon it, betokens death and loss —Tur SiByL. A friend of mine, who has lost several children, says that just previous to the death of each, she has dreamed of seeing one or two sheep feeding in a certain grain-fields and she has come to regard the omen as a special token to herself of the death of-one of her family.—Auruor.

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THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS, GROVES. To dream of being among beautiful rural scenes, de notes wealth and esteem, as well as happiness in love— Tue Sieyt. Some weeks ago, while at sea, I had a dream of being af my brother’s house, at Melbourne, and found his house or a hill at the farther end of town, next to the open forest His garden sloped a little way down the hill to some briex buildings below; and there were greenhouses on the riglit hand by the wall, as you looked down the hill from the house.. As I looked out from the windows, in my dream, I saw a wood of dusky-foliaged trees, having a somewliat segregated appearance in their heads; that is, their heads did not make that dense mass like our woods. “There,” I said, addressing some one in my dream, ‘‘I see your native forest of Encolyptus!” This dream I told to my aons, and to two of my fellow-passengers at the time; and on landing, as we walked over the meadows, long before we reached the town, I saw this very wood. ‘‘There,” I said, “is the wood of my dream. We shall see my broths er’s house there!” And so we did. It stands exactly as I saw it, only looking newer; but there, over the wall of the garden, is the wood, precisely as I saw it, and now see it as I sit at the dining-room window writing. When I look on this scene, I seem to look into my dream,—W1L- Liam Howi1rr. HORSES. White horses seen in dreams, are truly the apparitions of angels ; while black steeds are the ill-omened messen- gers of evil.—ASTRAMPSYCHIUS. 3oth in sacred and profane literature, horses have ever occupied an honorable place among symbols. The Bible makes frequent mention of the horse—his strength, “his speed and beauty. ‘Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nos trils is terrible. He paweth in the valley and rejoieeth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear and is not affrighted: neither turneth he

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HORSES. 33 back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him; the glittering spear and the shield. He saith among the trumpets, ha! ha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.” Swedenborg tells us that in the celestial arena, horses signify intelli- genee.. The northern Nations of Europe have the belief which is quoted above; a white palfrey meaning good, andea black horse, evil. Bat the appearance of the horse; whether gentle or fractious, also influences the omen: Sounds, too, had come in midnight blast Of charging steeds, careering fast Along Benharrow’s shingly side, Which mortal borsemen ne’er might ride; Scorr. And so he fell on sleepe, and halfe waking and nalfe sleeping, he saw come by him two palfreys, both faire and white, the which beare a litter, therein lying a sick knight. And when he was near the crosse, he there abode still, All this Sir Launcelot saw and beheld, for he slept not verily, and he heard him say: ‘‘ Oh, sweete Lord, when shall fhis sorrow leave me, where through I shall be blessed, for I have endured thus long for little trespasse.” And thus a great while complained the knight, andalways Sir Launcelot heardit. With that, Sir Launcelot saw the candlestick, with the fire-tapera, come before the crosse; but he could seg nobody that brought it. Also, there came a table of silver, and the holy vessell of the Sangreall, the which Sir Launcelot had seene before that time in King Petchour’s house. And therewithal the sicke knight set him upright and held up both his hands, and saide: ‘‘ Faire, sweete Lord, which is here within the holy vessell, take heede to me, that I may be hole of this greate malady.” And therewith upon his hands, and upon his knees, he went so nigh, that he touched the holy vessell, and kissed it. And anon he was hole, and then he said: “ Lord God, I thank thee, for I am healed of this malady.—Romancx or Morte ARrHTR. A Scotch servant, in the family of the author’s brothers in-law, said to the author, that, on occasion of the death of her father, she had been warned by seeing him riding upon a black horse, which ran with such terrible speed, that the reins parted in her father’s hamds. Also, that the

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B4 THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS night previous to hearing of her mother’s death, she hag dreamed of coming toward her mother’s house, and seeing through a half-opened window that the furniture was piled up in one corner of a room, as if for removal; and that a black horse stood before the window, so that she was obliged to stand on tiptoe to see over him into the room. he sign had always been of sorrowful omen to her, and had occurred in numerous instances. HUNTING. To dream of hunting, and all thereunto pertaining, % an evil sign, denoting trouble and sorrow.—ARTEMI- PORUS. Mrs. K , atady of family and fortune, in Yorkshire, said to her son, one morning on descending to breakfast, “ Tyenry, what are you going to do to-day?” “I am going to hunt,” replied the young man. “J am very glad of it,” she answered. ‘I should not like you to go shooting, for { dreamed last night that you did se, and were shot,” The son answered, gayly, that he would take care not to be shot, and the hunting-party rode away; but in the mid- dle of the day they returned, not having found any sport. Mr. B., a visitor in the house, then proposed that they should go out with their guns and try to find some wood- cocks. “I will go with you,” returned the young man, “but I must not shoot to-day, myself; for my mother dreamed last night that I was shot; and although it is but 2 uream, she would be uneasy.” They went, Mr. B, with hi gun, and Mr. K—— without. But shortly afterward the beloved son was brought home dead: a charge from th . gun of his companion had struck him in the eve, em t #d the brain, and killed him on the spot,—Mss, Crow, “ T think,” said Maiden Maries > “T hear a horn and hounc “Ye weel may hear the hound,” he said, “Ye weel may_hear the horn, For I can hear the wild halloo That freichts the face o’ morn! “The Hunters fell 0’ Sillarweed Hae packs full fifty-three: They hunt all day, they hunt all nicht, They never bow an ee;

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LETTERS “The Hunters fell o’ Silla vood Hae steeds ’out blude or dane: They bear fiert maidens te a weird Where mercy there 18 m,aet “And they will bap thy lily breise Till flesh fu’s aff the ban 2— Nor tell thy freres how Mirjorie To Sillarwood hath gan! “The bed is-strew’d, Maid Marjorie, Wi’ bracken and wi’ brivr, And ne’er will gray cock Clarion wine For ane that slumbers here Ye have wedded the Ettin stark— He rules the Realnis of tear 1” LETTERS. To dream of receiving letters, ts a sign of love; te write them, of business which must be attended to. Bué to get a dlack-edged one is a sign of grief.—Tur Sypin In a morning dream I saw many letters brought to me On a salver, at breakfast. One, especially, a very large packet, edged with black, made a strong impression on my dreaming eyes. At breakfast, the same morning, the letters were brought to me as usual, and were numerous; but I was suddenly impelled to say te Jane: “ Where is the large packet edged with black?” ‘Oh, sir,” replied Jane, “ I thought you would not like to see black at break- fast; but here itis.” And Jane produced from her apron- pocket the identical large letter I had dreamed of.—A Puysician’s Dreams: ALt tHe Year Rounp, Miss , residing at Dalkeith, dreamed that her brother, who was ill, called her to his bedside, and gave her a letter, which he desired her to carry to their aunt, Mrs. H——, with the request that she would ‘deliver * to John.” (John was another brother, who had died pre- viously, and Mrs. H——- was at that time ill.) He addéd that ‘‘ he himself was going there also, but that Mrs. H—— would go first.” Accordingly, Miss L—— went, in her dream, with the letter to Mrs. H——, whom she found dressed in white, and looking quite radiant and happy. She took the letter, saying she was going there directly,

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38 THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS and would deliver it. On the following morning Miss L learned that her aunt had died during the night. The brother died some little time afterward.—Megs, Crowe’s Nieur Siprer Nature. LIGHT. oe If one dreams that. he suddenly sees a great Vight jt ssh out in darkness, he wili assuredly succeed i» all the schemes which he may be at the time devising—- ARTEMIDORUS. In 1610, being much fatigued with thinking, during which [ had endeavored to obtain some knowledge cf my soul, I slept. I was soon raised above the fetters ef rea- son, and it appeared to me that I was in a dark room; on the left-hand side I saw a table, and on it a bottle contain- ing a liquid, which thus addressed me:. ‘‘ Dost thou wish for honors and riches?” I was stupefied at hearing these words, I paced up and down, endeavoring to understand what this could inean. On the right hand appeared a slit in the wall, through which shone a light, the brightness of which made me forget the voice and the liquid, and changed the current of my thoughts, for I contemplated things surpassing the power of speech. This light lasted but an instant. In despair, I returned to the bottle, which I carried away with me. I wished to taste the liquid it contained. With great exertion, I uncorked it, but expe rienced a sensation of horror, and awoke, Still, my desire to comprehend the nature of the soul remained, This desire lasted for twenty-three years; that is to say, until 1683, when I had a vision, during which my own soul was exhibited to my astonished sight. It was a perfectly homogeneous light, composed of a spiritual substance, crystalline and brilliant. It was. shut up like a pea in its shell, and I heard a-voice saying to me: ‘Here is what thou sawest through a chink in the wall!” MONSTERS. To dream of monsters and other terrifying sights {other than nightmare), denotes imminent danger. There is a remarkable dream related in Mrs. Crowe's “Night Side of Nature,” where a mother sees all her family

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MUSIC. 87 gathered in a room of her house, and a monster, of so terrible and indescribable an appearance that it could not be named, enter, and with an uplifted ax strike down two of her children, while it threatened the otbers. In a short time scarlet fever seized them all, and the ones she bad seen stricken down died, while the others reeovered. When the eholera broke out, in 1831, in Berlin, all Brandenburg was alarmed. <A teacher dreamed that he saw a monster approach from the east, and when near, spring to the right and the left; from which he coneluded that Brandenburg would escape. This conclusion was jus- tified in the event.—Dreams. py Cuanres A, Muncer. Alexander the Great, sleeping by the side of his friend Ptolomxus, who was mortally wounded, dreamed that a dragon, belonging to his mother, appeared before him, bearing in its mouth a root which proved a remedy, On a search being instituted, the root was discovered; and Ptolomeus, and many other soldiers recovered by its use. e~IBID. MUSIC—SINGING. Who heareth music in dreams, shall receive a joyful summons. —A CHMET. To dream of hearing singing, denotes the confirma- tion of hopes. But if the dreamer is the singer, it fore- bodes disappointment.—Y ON GERSTENBERGK. It is related of Cesar, that while he was yet lingering upon the hither bank of the Rubicon, in the early dawn, at & point not far distant from himself, an apparition was de- seried, in a sitting posture, and holding in its hand what seemed to be a flute. This phantom was of unusual size, and of beauty more than human, so far as its lineaments could be descried in the early dawn. Others saw it as well as he; both pastoral laborers, and some of the sentinels stattoned at the passage of the river, These men fancied even that a strain of mnsic issned from this aerial flute. And some, both of the shepherds and the Roman soldiers, who were bolder than the rest, advanced towards the fig- ure. Among this party, it happened there were a few Roman trumpeters. From one of these, the phantom,

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35 THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS rising as they advanced nearer, suddenly caught a trumpes, and blowing through it a blast of superhuman strength, plunged into the Rubicon, passed t) (he other bank, and disappeared in the dusky twilight ot the dawn. Upon which Cresar exclaimed: “It is finissed—the die is cast— let us follow whither the guiding purtents of Heaven, and the malice of our enemies alike s\ummon us to go.”—Ds Quincey’s WRITINGS. Oft have I dream’d of music rare and fine, The wedded melody of lu’ e and voize, Divinest strains that made my soul rejoice, And woke its inner harmon ies divine. —STopDArRD. MURDER To dream of coramitting murder, presages suffering and oppression. —_ReIcHuaLtiay’s TRAUM-BUCH, * And well,” quoth he, “ J know in truth Their pangs must be extreme;— Woe, woe, unutterable wee, Who spill life’s sacred stream ! For why? Methought, last night, J wrought ; ght, ye, A murder in my dream! “One that had never done me wrong, A feebie man and old: I led him to a lonely field, The moon shone clear aud cold. * Now here,’ said I, ‘this man shall die! And I will have his gold!’ “Two hurred blows with s ragged sick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, And then the deed was done. There was nothing tying at my fe>t, But lifeless flesh and bone.’ —Desax ov Fa, : Agaw,

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PERFUMES—ROCKS, PERFUMES. To dream of perfumes, indicates grease fortune tn friendship, especially if the odors scem to arise around you tn light vapors, as from a censer.—JOHANNES PR&TORIUS, Such delights, As float to earth permitted visitants ! When in some hour of solemn jubilee The massive gates of Paradise are thrown Wide open: and forth come in fragments wild Sweet echoes of unearthly melodies, And odors snatch'd from beds of amaranth, And they that from the crystal river of life Spring up on freshen’d wings, ambrosial gales! —Rexvicious Musrna. Lalla Rookh had had a dream the night before, which, in spite of the impending fate of poor Hafed, made her heart more than usually cheerful during the morning, and gave her cheeks all the freshened animation of a flower that the Bidinusk has just passed over. She fancied that she was sailing on that Eastern Ocean, where the sea- gipsiea, who live forever on the water, enjoy a perpetual summer in wandering from isle to isle, when she saw a small gilded bark approaching her. It was like one of those boats which the Maldivian islanders annually send adrift, at the mevey of winds and waves, loaded with per- fumes, flowers, and odoriferous woods, as an offering to the spirit whom tliey call King of the Sea.—Mooru’s Latta Rooka. ROCKS. To dream of rocks, presages danger and cruel suffer- ieg.~Das ReicnHartien’s TRAuM-Buca. It is a remarkable fact that of all my family, there is ne sister whose misfortunes are always indicated to me dy dreams. She is pot a dreamer herself—seldom ever temembers any vision of the night: therefore upon mysel bas always descended the impression of any calamity im- ending over her. I once had a terrible dream, in which beheld this sister suspended by strong cords to the back-

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40 TWH ROMANCE OF DREAMS end of a coach that was being driven furiously down:a rocky pass among mountains, while her still living body was rudely thrown from side to side against the jutting and pointed rocks, until it was horribly mutilated; and all the while I could only scream with terror and agony, without, the power to arrest the coach, or part the cords that held her in her dreadful position. From the moment I awaken- ed, | knew some tinforseen trouble awaited her; but being ata great distance, I refrained from mentioning it in my letters. In two or three months I learned” the interpreta- tion of my dream; for then commenced the most unlooked for, cruel, and interminable trouble of her life, and which had nearly darkened all its brightness forever.—AuvurTHoR, SAINT AGNES’ EVE. Saint Agnes’ Eve is the 21st of January, and tt was anciently believed that on ts eve any maiden might know in dreams who her husband would be. From an old English dream-book, we learn that this was to be done by fasting twerty-four hours on pure spring water, “then go to bed, and mind you slecp alone, telling na one of what you are trying, or tt will break the spelt 3 go to rest on your left side, repeating these lines thre umes : ‘Saint Agnes be + friend to me, In the gift I ask of thee: Let me this nigh: sy husband see.” —Porrry AND Mystery oF DREAMS Sudden a thought came, like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow; and in his pained heart Made purple riot; then doth he propose A stratagem, that makes the beldam start, “A cruel man and impious thou art: Sweet lady! let her pray, and sleep, and dream, Alone with her good anjrels, far apart From wicked men like thee. Go! go! I deem Thou canst not, surely, be the same that thou dost seem.” “1 wih. nct warm her, by al: saints T swear,” Quoth korphyro. “Oh, may I ne'er find grace; When my weak youve shall whisper its last prayer If one of her soft ringiets I displace,

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SATLING—SERPENTS, Or look with ruffian passion in her face; $ood Angela, believe me by these tears, Or T wiil, even in a moment’s space, Awake with hormd shout my foeman’s ears, And beard them, though they be more fanged than wolves or bears. * * * * * * * * * Her eyes were open, but-she still beheld, Now wide sehen the vision of her sleep * There was a painful coange; that mgh expell’ad The blisses of her dream so pure and deep, At which fair Madeline began to weep, And moan-forth witless words with many a sigh; While still her gaze on Porphyro would keep ; Who knelt, with joined hands and piteous eye, Fearing to move or speak, she look’d so dreamingly. —Kearts’ Eve or St. Aanes. SAILING. If you dream of sailing pleasantly along, the omen és highly favorable ; but if in @ storm, danger and grief are at hand... A wreck is the worst possiole dream. To sail on land is an evil sign, and to dream of suiling tar away presages death.— A x TEMIDORUS. We are pushing from the land, And adown a lovely stream Geatly floating—is’t a dream? Yor the oarsman near me sings, Keeping time with snowy wings. —Axice Cary, SERPENTS. To dream of serpents, foredodes that you witi be ex posed to brutal wi-nature from aman, or treachery trom awoman. Snakes coiling and twisting, presage sickness or imprisonment. Killing them, ts an omen ef victory and success. —VON GERSTENBERGK. Treading on serpents, you will overcome your enemies -~ ASTRAMPSYCHIUS, For in my sleep I saw that dove, That gentle bird, whom thou dost love, 4

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THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS, And callest by thy own daughter’s name- fir Leoline! I saw the same, Fluttering, and uttering fearful moan, Among the green herbs in the forest alone. * * * % * * * I went and peer’d, and could epi No cause for her distressful ery But yet for her dear lady’s sake I stoop'd, methought, the bird to take. When lo! I saw a br ight green snake Coil’d around its wings and neck o Green as the herbs on which it couch’d, Close by the dove’s its head it crouch’d; And with the dove it heaves and stirs, Swelling its neck as she swells hers! —Co.eripGe’s CHRISTABEL, A lady of the author’s acquaintance, has the most posi« tive belief in this omen, never having failed to see it ful- filled, in her experience. The learned Conrad Gessner dreamed one night that he yas bitten in the left breast by a serpent, and a deep and severe lesion was soon manifested in the very spot; it was, in fact, a carbuncele, that terminated fatally at the end of five days.—Rarionat Histoky or HaLLucinations, SPIRITS Spirits clad in white, presage joy ana extreme good fortune.—GERMAN DREAM-BOOK. Oh, idol of my dreams! whate’er Thy nature be—human, divine, Or but half-heavenly—still too fair, Too heavenly to be ever mine! Wonderful Spirit, who dost make Slumber so lovely that it seems No longer life to live awake, Since heaven itself descends in dreams. Why do I ever lose thee! why— When on thy realms and thee I gaze~ Still drops that vail, which I could die, Oh, gladly, but one hour to raise! —Moore’s Loves or raz ANGELS, A profound slumber soon closed the eyelids of the wearied artist, who fancied himself still reclining in the

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STARS, 43 woods, with the radiant goddess of the silver bow by his side. All night long she seemed to be bending over him, fanning him with her long white wings, aud speaking in tones of endearment, as with upturned countenance he gazed with rapture upon her majestic loveliness. “ And why dost thou love me?” asked he, in a gentle whisper. “Because thou art pure as fair. Thou hast never loved, and therefore I love thee, Love none but me, none but me!”"—Ape.Les’ Dream. Simonides, having met with the dead body, on the high- yay, of a man who was a stranger to him, had it interred. As he was about to embark, he dreamed that the man whom he had buried, appeared to him, and informed him that, if he persisted in embarking on his voyage, he would perish. This warning induced him to alter his mind, and it appeared subsequently that the vessel was wrecked.— Cicero: Dx Divin. STARS. To dream of stars 13 a most favorable omen for men, —ASTRAMPSYCHIUS. To dream of the stars ts a good omen; but to see them taking shapes of animals or reptiles is an omen of evil,—Tum Spy. I thought I was gazing up to the heavens, when I saw a beautiful serpent, formed all of stars of the first magni- tude, which so fascinated my gaze, that I was compelled to look upon it, though a sense of its ominous meaning oppressed me, eveninsleep. D tells me that my starry serpent is M , and perhaps this is true, though it is difficult to think so. while in his society.—Le?rers oF a FRIEND. Give me my Romeo: and, when he shall die, Take him, and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun. —Romeo anp Jurist,

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THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS. STATUES. Jt is fortunate to dream of statues, especially if they be made of noble and costly materials, Statues especially refer to the great men of a city, and the appearance of such tmages in dreams, signifies that great political events will speedily come to pass. Terror and danger is pre- saged by moving statues, especially those of .the gods.—~ ARTEMIDORUS. Decius, This dream is all amiss interpreted ; It was a vision, fair and fortunate’ Your statue spouting blood in many pipes, In which so many smiling Romans bathed, Signifies, that from you great Rome shall suck Reviving blood; and that great men shall press For tinctures, stains, relies, and cognizance, This by Calphurnia’s dream is signified, % * % * % * % % * * Cesar. How foolish do your fears seem now, Calphurma? Tam ashamed I did yield to them. Give me my robe, for I will go. —Junius Casar. This she said—and straight the sepphire air In the palace rosy grew, and gold; Statues pale, and pictures heavenly fair, Blush'd and breathed, like forms of sarthly mold. —Mrs. Barrirr. STORMS. Storms presage disturbances, perils, and destruction.— ARTEMIDORUS. A gentleman who had been a short time visiting Edin- burgh, was troubled with a cough, which, though it ocea- rioned him no alarm, he resolved to go home to nurse. On the first night of his arrival he dreamed that one-half of the house was blown away. — His bailiff, who resided at a distance. dreamed the same dream on the same night, The gentleman died within a few weeks.—Mnas, Caowe’s Nieur Sipe or Narers, On a rude rock, A rock, methought, fast by a grove of firs, Whose thready leaves to the low rustling gale,

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TOMB. Made a soft sound most like the distant ocean, I stay’d as though the hour of death were pass’d, And I were sitting in the world of spirits— For all things seemed unreal! There I sate The dews fell clammy, and the night descended, Black, sultry, close! and ere the midnight hour, A storm came on, mingling all sounds of fear, That woods, and sky, and mountains, seemed one havos CoLeripge’s RemorssE. O Cicero, IT have seen tempests, when the scolding winds Have rived the knotty oaks; and I have seen The ambitious ocean sweil, and rage, and foam, To be exalted to the threat’ning clouds: But never till to-night, never till now, i)id I go through a tempest dropping fire. Hither there is a civil strife in heaven; Or else the world, too saucy with the gods, Sain, Incenses them to send destruction. —JuLius Csan. TOMB—GRAVES—COFFIN. To dream of being among the tombs of the great, de votes good fortune: but to sce the tomb of a friend, o« do seé one put in a grave, is a sign of death and loss. Tus Srey. To Bee a man tread over praves, I hold it no good mark, Tis wicked in the sun and moon, And bad luck in the dark! A French gentleman, Monsieur de V——, dreamed, tome years since, that he saw a tomb, on which he read very distinctly, the following date—23d June, 184—; there Vere, also, some initials, but so much effaced that he could not make them out. He mentioned the circumstance to his wife; and for some time, they could not help dreading the recurrence of the ominous month; but as year after year passed, and nothing happened, they had ceased te think of it, when at last the symbol was explained. On the 23d of June, 1846, their only daughter died at the age of seventeen.—Mas. Crowe. A man of business, in Glasgow, lately dreamed that he saw @ <offin, on which was inscribed the name of a friend,

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46 *AX ROMANCE OF DREAMS with the date of his death. Some time afterward he was summoned to attend the funeral of that person, who at tha time of the dream, was in good health, and he was struck with surprise on seeing the plate of the coffin bearing the very dato ke had seen in his dream.—Iaip, 3 To dream of flougishing, vigorous trees, presages for- tune and happiness, But to sce a tree lying upon the ground, forebodes disappointment in love. To dream of @ BEECH-TRER, ts an omen of peace and prosperity. To dream of an Oax, presages great wealth and a long life. 0 dream of a Wit.Low, ts @ sign of grief to all save mariners.— ARTEMIDORUS, . The YEW-TREE ts a token of sudden death~Tum Siny.. Vittoria. Methought I walk’d, about the mid of night, Into a churchyard, where a goodly yew-tree Spread her large root in the ground, Under that yew, As I sat sadly, leaning on a grave Checker’d with cross-sticks, there came stealing in Your duchess and my husband; one of them A pick-ax bore, th’ other a rusty pade, And in rough terms they ’gan to chationige me About this yew. Brachiano. That tree? Vittoria. This harmless yew. They told me my intent was to root up That well-known yew, and plant i’ the stead of if A wither’d black-thorn; and for that they row él To bury me alive. My ‘husband straight With pick-ax ‘gan to dig; and your duchess fell With shovel—like a fury voided out The earth, and scatter’d bones: Lord, how, me thought, I trembled, and yet for all this terror I could not pray. Piamineo (aside), No; the devil was in your dream,

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UNKNOWN PERSONS. 47 Pettoria. When to my rescue there arose, methought, A whirlwind, which let fall a massy arm From that strong plant: And both were struck dead by that sacred yew, In that base shallow grave which was their due, A tree stood in the Odenwold, With many a blooming bough, And then I had a true love once— Where is my true love now! And when again I sought the tree, Upon the ground it lay; Another lover held thy hand— The dream had pass’d away. —From rox German: Leann, UNKNOWN PERSONS. To dream of conversing with unknown persons, pre- sages good fortune and guardianship.—Tuw Srpyt. “TI remember,” says M. Maury, in his Memoir (p. 81), “having dreamed eight times in one month of a certain person, whose identity, during that period, remained un- changed, but whom I did net know, and who probably existed only in my imagination, And what is strange, he frequently continued actions in a dream which had beew begun in another and former one.”—Rarionat History or HaLivcinaTion. From the letter of a friend, 1 have made the following extract: “] dreamed that I was stopping with an old lady friend, in a pretty country village, and that I went te church on the next day, being Sabbath. It seemed to me that I was renowned for something, and that everybody i met paid me great deference. The following Monday I received a.visit from a gentleman who was unknown te me, but was a friend of my hostess. He came, he said, to tommunicate to me the fact that his brother (and he told me his name) was deeply in love with me, having seen me at church the day before, and also to propose that my hostess and myself should spend the following day with his aunt, with whom both he and his brother lived, Y de murred, but my friend promised for us both, and I dreamed that we went. The young man’s aunt met us in an or- chard, with my admirer by her side, and presenting him

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48 THE ROMANCK OF DREAMS, to me, said: “This, my dearest nephew, loves & cept him for your husband, and all this beautiful estate which you ses shall be yours, and you shall be happy. I accepted at oace, and felt very glad of my good fortune— for the young man was handsome and noble. A ftermard I met this person, and immediately recognized him, but nothing ever came of our acquaintance,” VOICES. Whatever you dream that you hear voices call out te you, will prove true—ASTRAMPSYCHIUS, Grotius relates, that when M. de Saumaise was councillor of the parliament at Dijon, a person, who knew not a word of Greek, brought him a paper on which was written somo words in that language, but not in character. He said that a voice had uttered them to him in the night, and that he had written them down, imitating the sound as well as he could. M. de Saumaise made out that the signi- fication of the words was: “* Begone! do you not see that death impends?” Without comprehending what danger was predicted, the person obeyed the mandate and de- parted. On that night the house he had been lodging in fell to the ground.— Mrs. Crowe. Mrs. 8 related to me, that, residing in Rome in June, 1856, she dreamed, on the 30th of that month, that her mother, who had been several years dead, appeared to her, gave her a lock of hair, and said: “ Be es acially careful of this lock of hair, my child, for it is yc.ur father’s; and the angels will carry him away from you to-morrow.” The effect of this dream on Mrs. S——'s spirits was such, that, when sho awoke, she experienced the greatest alarm, and caused a telegraphic notice to be instantly, dispatched to England, where her father was, to inquire after his health. Noimmediate answer was received; but when it did come, it was to the effect that her father had died that morning at nine o'clock. She afterward learned that, two days before his death, he had caused ta be cut off a lock of his hair, and handed to one of his daughters, who was atvending on him, telling her it was for her sister in Rome, Sieg D, Owen’s Foot-ratis on tae Bounpary of ANoTHE* SRLD,

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WALLS—WATCH 49 WALLS. Walls denote strength and security; out a Salling wall, disaster and death —Tur Seyi. A maid-servant, who resided many years in a distin- guished family in Edinburgh, was repeatedly warned of the approaching death of certain members of the family, by dreaming that one of the walls of the house had fallen. Shortly before the head of the family sickened and died, she said she dreamed the main wall of the house had fall- llen.—Mrs. Crowe. WATCH—STOPPING. A watch being a symbol of Time, to dream that one stops is ominous of death—Tne Srey. One of the sons being indisposed with a sore throat, a sister dreamed that a watch, of considerable value, which she had borrowed froma friend, had stopped; that she had awakened another sister, and mentioned the cireum- stance, who answered that ‘“‘something much worse had happened, for Charlie’s breath had stopped.” She then awoke in extreme alarm, and mentioned the dream to her sister, who, to tranquillize her mind, arose and went to the brother's room, where she found him asleep, and the watch going. The next night the same dream recurred, and the brother was again found asleep and the watch going. On the following morning, however, this lady was writing a note in the drawing-room, with the watch beside her, when, on taking it up, she perceived it had stopped; and she was just on the point of calling her sister to men- tion the circumstance, when she heard a scream from her brother’s room, and the sister rushed in with the tidings that he had just expired.—Mnrs. Crows. 5

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THE ROMANCE OF DREAMA THE PHENOMENA OF DREAMS.* Wnauat is sleep? What is the beating of the heart? What is breathing? Sleep, like these, is a vital necessity, an act, or (to use tlie word in its philosophical sense) a passion of life. Being a vital state, it answers to the words of Pope: “Like following life through creatures you dissect, You iose it in the moment you detect.” To define sleep would only be to render less clear the idea which is attached to the well-known word. Shak- speare wisely describes it in a passage needless to quote entire, by its effects merely. He calls it, among other things, “‘ Chief nourisher in life’s feast.’ Pursuing this truthful thought, we ask, “Why chief nourisher?” The answer must be, ‘‘ Because it brings us needful rest—relaxation of the tired and stretched-out nerves and muscles—but above all, repose and refresh- ment of brain.” Active thought is almost entirely sus- pended in sleep: habitual and wearisome thought are interrupted. Sleep is truly the “‘ death of each day’s life.” Physically, sleep is a passive state of the brain, in which that organ pulsates equably, and for the most part in a manner undisturbed by the agitation of thought. A medical man had opportunity, for a long time, of obsery- ing the brain of a patient, which, to a considerable extent, had been laid bare by a fracture, and removal of part of the skull. He looked often at the bare brain, while the patient was awake—while the patient was asleep. The * This article, from the pen of an eminent physician, attempts to explain, and account for, the phenomena of dreams—with what suc« cess each reader must determine for himself. ‘the whole subject is wrapped in a mystery which seems to defy all explanation; yet, the curions in these matters will desire to know what the philosophers think fo regard to ue mysteries of sleep and dreams—hence we give place to this admirable and deeply interesting paper. It will be pe yused with avidity by the readers of this little book.

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THE PHENOMENA OF DREAMS, 51 observer saw that, in a waking state, the brain ad intelli- gent, and, as one might say, telegraphic motivas, corre: spondent with the thoughts which it was priating off, The doctor, looking at the exposed brain, while the patient was conversing, perceived that different cerebral motions accompanied the different ideas it was excited by. He was looking manifestly at the great laboratory of thought. But, in a state of sleep, the patient’s brain worked and telegraphed no more. It became a mere pulse, like that at the wrist, and, indeed, was found to correspond, in its regular beat, with the beat of the artery. Hence it follows, that in as far as the quietude of whe brain is hindered, sleep is hindered in the same proportion. Thus, a mere mechanical quieting of the brain induces sleep. Ihave read of sleepless men, who, to drown the busy brain in a kind of artificial apoplexy, have had them- selves whirled about on a millstone, with their head inelin- ing outward, so that the blood being thrown from all parts upward, to the great workshop of the mind, flooded it, washed out the wakefulness, Opium, and morphine, counting to a hundred (doubtful), hop-pillows, fancying you see your own breath (very donbtful), draughts of heavy drink at bedtime, gin, punch, and other night-caps, have all the same intention as the millstone: namely, to deaden the brain, and bring it to a regular pulsation. Yet too heavy sleep is nearly as unhealthy as, and is, perhaps, more unhealthy than, a considerable degree of habitual sleeplessness. It may be questioned if they who boast that they find themselves, after eight hours’ sleep, just where they first lay down in bed, without-even turning round, and certainly without dreaming, are not short- necked aud apoplectic. Yet, on the other hand, horrible, perplexing, fatiguing dreams are, in themselves, a disease. Lam a great dreamer; and dreams make a vast part of the life of multitudes of mankind. What, then, are dreams? I would answer in brief; Dreams are a combination of imperfect sensation with imperfect thought. Most of their phenomena seem to be brought about by what a watchmaker would call the duplex movement in Man—namely, of mind and matter—and are only what might be expected of a living substance that requires rest, and a living soul that demands activity. The mind, always

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52 THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS. sympathizing, more or less, with the body, gets lazy with the body’s sleep, and can no longer exercise her functions clearly; yet still she makes a faint. struggle to exercise them; continues to invent when she can no longer per- ceive; executes her dance though in manacles (sometimes glittering, sometimes gloomy ones); and even, when the sleep is light and imperfect,-endeavors to correct the errors of her ciouded perceptions. “Does the mind always think?” asks Locke; and, rash- ly as it seems to me, concludes from our frequent non-re- membrance of dreams, that the question should be resolved in the negative. But how frequently we think we have passed a dreamless night, and yet, in the ensuing day, some little circumstance shall suddenly cry, ‘Open, Sesame!” to the brain: the key turns in the door to the closet to which the mind has consigned her vagaries, and we find, duly ticketed and labeled, a long and perhaps strange dream, which, but for that touch of kindred cir- cumstance, we should never have remembered. The mind, then, may always think, though its thinking may not always leave a durable impression on the brain. But there are persons who scarcely can be said to have minds, and who never think to any purpose. The error of philosophers is to judge all phenomena by their own philosophic consciousness. ‘‘ Cogito, ergo sum,” was thie dictum of a philosopher. ‘‘ Non cogito, ergo non sum,” might be the equally good reasoning of a very dull man! Could we take a peep at some slumbering mass of mor- tality, whose brains are in his stomach, whose snore imi- tates the grunt of a swine, we should decidedly say, ‘* The mind does not always think.” From such a one we should have no right to expect dreams or dream-phenomena. Dreams! he never *dreams by night, simply because he never thinks by day! But, I think I may assert, of those who -know they arg alive, that there is a vital conscious- ness running through even dreamless slumber, which is very different from the senselessness of a swoon, Dreaming is natural. Animals dream. The old dear greyhound, Transit, in my paternal home, used to move his legs on the rug by the fire as if he were coursing. -My little terrier faintly barks in his sleep, chasing, doubtless, an imaginary cat~-the only game he knows, poor town bred fellow,

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~ THE PHENOMENA OF DREAMS, 33 The phenomena of dreaming so puzzled an essayist on sleep, that he invented a. theory about them, which he declared could alone solve their difficulties. This writer affirmed boldly that all our dreams were caused by exter- nal agency, since to external agency they were often ap- parently due, He invented a troop of small familiar spir- its. They were the external agency. ‘ Would the soul,” he asked, “torment herself in sleep by horrible creations ? Could the soul play the wires of such a multitude of personages as peopled her visions?” The reasoning is shallow. Man, when awake, often torments himself with disagreeable thoughts. Indiestion, to say nothing of conscience, wiil create hypochondriae horrors to any amount: a too full blood throbbing through the brain will people space with visions, seemingly palpable as those that distressed Nicolai, the Berlin bookseller. Then sinee animals dream, one might ask, ‘What sort of spirits are employed in suggesting dreams to dogs?” and so knock down the argument by an appeal to absurdity. As to the external nature of the phantasmagoria of dreams, we may, from the mere constitution of man, show that the soul needs no one but herself to prepare and paint the slides, or to set up in dream-land the magiec-lan- tern of her puppet theater. The mind is a great conjuror. Some shaye said that she is like a deuble-actioned harp, and can play many chords at one and the same mo- ment, Certainly. the duality-of the nerves and organs of sense seem to indicate a power in the mind of (at least) a duplex action. The thought has been carried out in an ingenious volume called ‘The Duality of the Brain.” But the scenery of the soul is too varied to be accounted for by amere double action. To trace her phenomena we need that multiplicity of operation which her varied facul- ties do really imply. Within her consciousness is com- prised creation—nay, God himself, or ail that we can con- ecive of God. What wonder, then, that the mind can people her own territory haunt herseif, alarm herself, but, ~ above all, amuse herself? Not incompatible with repose are pleasing dreams when life is just kept from stagnation by some small outlay of invention, some small exercise of the imaginative faculty. Thus, a vast proportion of the phenomena of dreams are explicable by a simple reference to the natural uses of

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54 T.1If ROMANCZ OF DRYAMS. sleep. ‘‘ Laziness” is a great word to explain dreams, The soul is too wise to exert herself in sleep; for exertion would contradict the very reason why she sleeps. Thig consideration explains why dreams are mostly imperfect, uncouneeted, and void of volition. They are lazily con- ' structed, Most dreamers, I doubt not, have observed that if they dream they are going to a play, or to hear a favorite singer, they seldom get to the play or succeed in hearing the singer. If they do enter what they suppose to be a theater, the theater is very dimly seen, and partakes more of the character of a room than of a theater. If they do see the prima donna before them, something mostly pre- vents her singing. If they hear her sing—I never heard a man sing ia a dream—the notes are few, and soon break off for some unimaginable reason. I imagine that a dream of sound is caused by an actual sound, which, at a moment ofimperfect sleep, impresses the ear. I have, arter hear- ing music in a dream, heard, on waking, the sound which manifestly prompted the dream: perhaps nothing more musical than a street cry, Ovcasionally, the sound in the dream, has been actually the sound out of the dream. I remember dreaming that I was sitting by a lady, and con- versing with her (I think that conversations are not atdi- bly carried on in dreams), when suddenly she began, to my infinite consternation, to crow like a cock. I woke with @ start, and became aware that a small bantam, in a yard over which Tat that time slept, was really crowing in a shrill and female tone. Another sort of abortive dream that I may mention, is a dream of vengeance. I have often seemed to be fighting with an imaginary adversary, always having the advantage always pommeling him well. But never did it happen that I seemed to hurt my antagonist. After having rained blows upon him enough to kill him ten times over, he has invariably smiled at me, as if he said, “Thank you!” In the same way, I have some times dreamt I was arguing in anger with some obstinate person, whom I never gsuce- ceeded in throwing into a rage. The explanation of these abortive cases of dreaming is (as I take it), that our own sensations are clear to us in sleep, but very little beyond them, Some stray memory, some throb in the blood, makes us wish to hear a singer of to punish a foe; but the mind is too {dle elaborately te

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SLEEP AND ITS PHENOMENA. crvate the theater, or to put force into the adversary, In a state of imperfect sleep, that state in which a man says to himself, ‘I know that this is all a dream,” I hgve sometimes known that I could see nothing of persons or bjects, which yet I fancied were around me. Then by ‘n effort of momentary volition, I have torn open, as it vere my mental eyes, and hada strange burst of light, and a brief revelation of objects, sometimes very beautiful, I remember once dreaming I was climbing up he Acrop- olis of Athens—which I had never seen—in this sort of mind-blindness. Suddenly I reached the top, which I had approaehed from landward, and suddenly the wondroug dream-illumination, so strong when it does come, revealed to me the Archipelago, and all its islands, with a distincte ness which is even now vivid in'‘my memory. On the whole, it may be averred that imperfect sensation is the great cause of dreams. Motions of the brain, mo: tions of the blood, craving, or derangements of the stomach, various states of the fluids of the mouth, all bring with them, and reproduce in sleep, the sensations and ideas with which, in a waking state, they are associated. It isa great and an interesting truth, which throws prodigious light on the mysteries of sensation, that sensa. tion has her invariable language; that even in sleep she is consistent with herself; that even when she reads in a dis- ordered book, she herself is immutable. The last change in sensation, let it be originated how it may, engenders the idea. This is the great law of conscious being ; and singu. lar it is, that, through the falsity of some sensuous im- pressions, we become most aware of the truth of the law that regulates them ! From irregular motions of the brain, or too rapid pas- sage of the blood (all the vital movements are quickened in sleep), we get many of those strange phenomena of dreams which are well known to most people, but especially to the young. There are few beings who°Wave not dreamt of flying through the air; of falling from precipices, or the roofs of houses; or who have not, as boys, experienced the sensa- tion, at the first approach of sleep, of suddenly being ulled up ina lively run by tumbling into a ditch—a start. ling feeling which has immediately awakened them, the ex. planation of which is the sudden relaxation af the fibers

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56 THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS. of the brain, by the very quick slumber of boyhood, Many of these hot-blooded phenomena become less fre quent with advancing years, and die out altogether with old age: proof additional, that physical causes are nearly paramount in producing dreams. The beginning of lite, too, is the era of those disorders which I once saw thus emphatically catalogued on a tombstone, that recorded the death of three babies: “Tlooping-cough! Measles! Small-pox! Oh! dire diseases!” I know from experience that, when such maladies are hatching in the body, the dreams, for a long time before- hand, are terrible. ‘here is a vastness of horror in the somnolent visions of childhood that is never matched at any later period. Often, as a boy, I have felt myself toiling on through some palpable obscure, through the whole of which, infinite spilers’ webs and infinite threads from infinite looms were endlessly weaving about me—no, not.me, but about some other identity into which I was half converted. Then the peculiar horror seemed to lice \n the very, very fine spun-glass sort of texture of the webs and threads which I had to draw through my enor- mously swollen and puffy hands. Many, whom I have questioned on the subject, have told me that, in youth, the dance of infinite distaffs spinning infinite threads about their distended hands, or highly enlarged heads, was an o amazing torment to them. Orawling insects, slippery snakes, scratching cats, are dream-forms of perturbed blood. Even dvream-booka prove this, for there is scarcely a dream of this kind, which perhaps the vain individual thinks peculiar to him- self, that is not interpreted for the benefit of the million, ‘hus showing that multitudes agree in their dreams. Pity that the ingenuity of the dream-interpreter should be fasted in explaining what a dream portends, not whenee it arises. Misfortunes can not be averted. (nor does. the necromancer pretend they can) by noting ominous dreams ; but diseases possibly may. When dreams are very ugly, very horrifying, the sufferer, instead of looking out for a fall in the stocks, or the treachery of a friend, should take eare of the stomach, and reform his diet accordingly. Fuseli, itis said, supped on raw pork (would not roast pork have sufficed ?) before he painted the foul fiend,

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MRS. CROWE’S TESTIMONY, ETC. 57 Indigestion, both in its labor and its fatigue, is a prolific hag-mother of ugly dreants. So is any uncomfortable sensation, however slight it may be; for, in the passive state of sleep, effects are produced Cisproportionate to causes. I have sometimes dreamt of being stung by’a serpent, or having my fingers held tight by the teeth of a dog. On waking, I have invariably found some slight uns easiness or pain in the part which I had fancied so stung er squeezed. Or perhaps I was lying with my arm or hand pressed under me. Another consideration that shows dreams to be colored acecrding to the staie of the stomach or head, is, that frequently a horrid dream turns off by degrees into a more pleasant one. Such dreams or rather series of dreams, represent, I doubt not, the paases of sensation in many a sleeping human being, who lives as we most of us live, rather too well, with a ‘‘rudis indigestaque moles” passing slowly off from our well-nourished stomachs at about four of the clock in the morning. ‘There is, first, horror; then, nightmare; then, effort and exertion, which overcome nightmare; then, alleviation, relief, yet still doubt, and what Wordsworth calls ‘‘ some perplexity ;” but, with the dawn, and with the passing of the worst of the small hours, when men die most, and (as the poet says) ‘ Heaven's breath is coldest,” comes true good sleep. MRS, CROWE'S TESTIMONY FAVORING A BELIEF IN DREAMS. As our friend, the Physician, is disposed to regard Dreams as a mental phenomena accounted for upon well- defined laws of mental action,—thus divesting the phe- nomena of all its mystery as well as of all its credibility, we must offer Mrs. Catharine Crowe’s testimony and opin- ion per contra, premising that her opinions will command + an attentive hearing at least. . With respect to the term invisible world, I beg to re- mind my readers, that what we call seeing is merely the function of atgrgan constructed for that. purpose in rela- tion to the external world; and so limited are its powers, that we are surrounded by many things in that world 5

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bs THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS. which wec¢an not see without the aid of artificial appli- ances, 1nd many other things which we can not see even with them; tLe atmosphere in which we live, for exam- ple, although its weigut and mechanical forces are the subjects of accurate calculadion, is entirely imperceptible to pur visual organs.’ Thus, the fact that we do not com: monly see them, forms no legitimate objection to the hy- pothesis of our being surrounded by a world of spirits, or of that world being inter-diffused among us. Supposing the question to be decided that we do sometimes become cognizant of them, which, however, I admit, it is not, ince, whether the apparitions are subjective, or objective, that is, whether they are the mere phenomena of disease, pr real out-standing appearances, is the inquiry I desire to promote—but, I say, supposing that question were de- cided in the affirmative, the next that arises is, how, or by what means do we see them? or, if they address us, hear them? If that universal sense which appears to me to be inseparable from the idea of spirit, be once admitted, I think there can be no difficulty in answering this question ; andif it be objected that we are conscious of no such sense, I answer, that both in dreams and in. certain ab- normal states of the body, it is frequently manifested. In order to render this more clear, and, at the same time, to give an interesting instance of this sort of phenomeaa, I will transcribe a passage from a letter of St. Augustine to his friend Evadius (Epistola 159. Antwerp edition). ‘‘T will relate to you a circumstance,” he writes, ** which will furnish you matter for reflection. Our brother Sen. nadius, well known to us all as an eminent physician, and whom we especially love, who is now at Carthage, after having distinguished himself at Rome, and with whose piety and active benevolence you are well acquainted could yet, nevertheless, as he has lately narrated to us, by no means bring himself to believe ina life after death, Now, God, doubtless, not willing that his ‘soul should per- ish, there appeared to him one night, in a dream, a radiany youth of noble aspect, who bade him follow him; and aa Sennadius obeyed, they came to a city where, on the righ{ side, he heard a chorus of the most heavenly voices, As he desired to know whence this divine harm@ny proceed. ed, the youth told him that what he heard were the songs of the blessed; whereupon he awoke, and thought nw

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MRS. CROWE’S TESTIMONY, ETO. 59 more of his dream than people usually do, On another night, however, behold! the youth appears to him again, and asks him if he knows hin; and Sennadius related to him all the particulars of his former dream, which he well remembered. ‘Then,’ said the youth, ‘ was it while sleep- ing or waking that you saw these things?’ ‘I was sleep- ing,’ answered Sennadius. ‘ You are right,’ returned the youth, ‘it was in your sleep that you saw these things; and know, O Sennadius, that what you see now is also in your sleep. But if this be so, tell me where then is your body? ‘In my bed-chamber,’ answered Sennadius. ‘But know you not,’ continued the stranger, ‘that your eyes, which form a part of your body, are closed and inactive ? ‘I know it,’ answered he. ‘Then,’ said the youth, ‘with what eyes see you these things? And Sennadius could not answer him; and as he hesitated, the youth spoke again, and explained to him the motive of his questions. * As the eyes of your body,’ said he, ‘which lies now on your bed and sleeps, are inactive and useless, and yet you have eyes wherewith you see me and these things I have shown unto you; so after death, when these bodily or- gans fail you, you will havea vital power, whereby you will live, and a sensitive faculty, whereby you ‘will per- ceive. Doubt, therefore, no longer that there is life after death.’ And thus,” said this exeellent raan, ‘ was I con- vinced, and all doubts removed.” I confess there appears to me a beauty and a logical truth in this dream that I think might convince more than the dreamer. It is by the hypothesis of this universal sense, latent within us—an hypothesis which, whoever believes that we are immortal spirits, incorporated for a season in a mate- rial body, can scarcely reject—that I seek to explain those perceptions which are not comprised within the functions of our bodily orgaus. It seems‘to me to be the key to all or nearly all of them, as far as our Own part in the phenom- ena extends. But, supposing this admitted, there would then remain the difficulty of accounting for the partial and capricious glimpses we get of it; while in that department of the mystery which regards apparitions, except such as are the pure result of disease, we must grope our way, with very little light to guide us, as to the conditions and motives which might possibly bring them into any imme- diate relation with us.

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60 THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS. To any one who has been fortunate enough to witness one genuine case of clairvoyance, I think the conception of this universal sense will not be difficult, however the mode of its exercise may remain utterly incomprehensible. As I have said above—to the great Spirit and Fountain of life, all things, in both space and time, must be present, However impossible it is to our finite minds to conceive this, we must believe it. It may, in some slight degree, facilitate the conception to remember that action, once begun, never ceases—an impulse given is transmitted on , forever; a sound breathed reverberates in eternity; and thus the past is always present, although, for the purpose of fitting us for this mortal life, our ordinary senses are so constituted as to be unperceptive of these phenomena. With respect to what we call the future, it is more difficult still for us to conceive it as present; nor as far as I know, can we borrow from the sciences the same assistance as mechanical discoveries have just furnished me within re- gard to the past. How a spirit sees that which has not yet, to our senses, taken place, seems certainly inexplicable. Foreseeing it is not inexpticable: we. foresee many things by arguing on given premises, although, from our own finite views, we are always liable to be mistaken. Louis Lambert says: “Such events as are the product of hu- manity, and the result of its intelligence, have their own causes, in which they lie latent, just as our actions are accomplished in our thoughts previous to any outward demonstration of them; presentiments and prophecies consist in the intuitive perception of these causes.” This explanation, which is quite conformable with that of Cicero, may aid us in some degree as regards a certain small class of phenomena; but there is something involved in the question much more subtle than this. Our dreams ean give us the only idea of it; for there we do actually see and hear, not only that which never was, but that which never will be. Actions and events, words and sounds, persons and places, are as clearly and vividly present.to us as if they were actually what they seem; and I should think that most people must be somewhat puzzled to decide in regard to certain scenes and circum- stances that live in their memory, whether the images are the result of their waking or sleeping experience. Al- though by no means a dreamer, and without the most re

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MRS, CROWE'S TESTIMONY, ETC. 61 mote approximation to any faculty of presentiment, I know this is the case with myself. I remember also a very curious effect being produced upon me, when I was abroad, some years ago, from eating the unwhole- some bread to which we were reduced, in consequence of a scarcity. Some five or six times a day I was seized with a sort of vertigo, during which I seemed to pass through certain scenes, and was conscious of certain words, which appeared to me to have a strange connection, with eithér some former period of my life, or else some previous state of existence. The words and the scenes were on each oc- casion precisely the same: I was always aware of that, and I always made the strongest efforts to grasp and ré- tain them in my memory, but I could not. Tonly knew that the thing had been; the words and the scenes were gone. I seemed to pass momentarily into another sphere and back again. This was purely the result of disorder ; but, like a dream, it shows how we may be perceptive of that which is not, and which never may be; rendering it, therefore, possible to conceive that a spirit may be equally perceptive “of that which shall be. I am very far from meaning to imply that these examples remove the difii- culty; they do not explain the thing; they only show somewhat the mode of it. But it must be remembered that when physiologists pretend to settle the whole ques- tion of apparitions by the theory of spectral illusions, they are exactly in the same predicament. They can supply examples of similar phenomena; but how a persog, per- fectly in his senses, should receive the spectral visits of, not only friends, but strangers, when he is thinking of ne such matter—or by what process, mental or optical, the figures are conjured up—remains as much a mystery as before a line was written on the subject. All people and all ages have believed, more or less, in prophetic dreams, presentiments, and apparitions; and all historians have furnished examples of them, That the truths may be frequently distorted and mingled with fa- ble, is no argument against those traditions; if it were, all history must be rejected on the same plea. Both the Old and New Testaments furnish numerous examples of these phenomena; and although Christ and the Apostles re- proved all the superstitions of the age, these persuasions are not included in their reprehensions,

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62 THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS. Neither is the comparative rarity of these phenomena any argument against their possibility. There are many strange things which occur still more rarely, but which we do not look upon as supernatural or miraculous. Of na- ture’s ordinary laws, we yet know but little; of their abe errations and perturbations, still less. How should we, when the wortd is a miracle and life a dream, of which we know neither the beginning nor the end? We do not éven know that we see any thing as it is, or rather, we know that we do not. We see things, but as our visual organs represent them to us; and were those organs dif- ferently constructed, the aspect of the world would to us be changed. How, then, can we pretend to decide upon what is and what is not? Nothing could be more perplexing to any one who read them with attention, than the trials for witcheraft of the seventeenth century., Many of the feats of the ancient thaumaturgists and wonder-workers of the temples might have been nearly as much so, but these were got rid of by the easy expedient of pronouncing them fables and im- postures; but, during the witch-mania, so many persons proved their faith in their own miraculous powers by the sacrifice of their lives, that it was scarcely possible to doubt their having some foundation for their own per- suasion, though what that foundation could be, till the late discoveries in animal magnetism, it was difficult to conceive; but here we have a new page opened to us whicheoncerns both the history of the world and the his- tory of man, as an individual; and we begin to see that which the ignorant thought supernatural, and the wise impossible, has been both natural and true, While the scientific men of Great Britain, and several of our journal- ists, have been denying and ridiculing the reports of these phenomena, the most eminent physicians of Germany have been quietly studying and investigating them, and giving to the world, in their works, the results of their ex- perience. Among the rest, Dr. Joseph Ennemoser, of Berlin, has presented to us in his two books on “ Magic,” and on * The Connection of Magnetism with Nature and Religion,” the fruits of his thirty years’ study of this subject—durin the course of which he has had repeated opportunities o investigating all the phenomena, and of making himself perfectly familiar with even the most rare and perplexing.

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MRS. CROWE’S TESTIMONY, ETO. 68 Yo any one who has studied these works, the mysteries of the temples and of the witch-trials are mysteries no longer; and he writes with the professed design, not to make science mystical, but to bring the mysterious withia the bounds of science. The phenomena, as he justly says, are as old as the human race. -Animal magnetism is ne new development, no new discovery. Inseparable from life, although, like many other vital phenomena, so subile in its influences, that only in abnormal cases it attracts at- tention, it has exhibited itself more or less in all ages and in all countries. But its value as a medical agent 1s only now beginning to dawn on the civilized world, while itg importance in a higher®point of view is yet perceived by but few. Every human being who has ever withdrawn himself from the strife, and the turmoil, and the distrac- tion of the world without, in order to look within, must have found himself perplexed by a thousand questions with regard to his own being, which he would find no one able to solve. In the study of animal magnetism, he will first obtain some gleams of a light which will show him that he is indeed ine child of God! and that, though a dweller on the earth, and fallen, some traces of his divine descent, and of his unbroken connection with a higher order of being, still remain to comfort and encourage him. He will find that there exists in his species the germs of faculties that are never fully unfolded here on earth, and which have no reference to this state of being. They ex- ist in all men, but in most cases are so faintly elicited as not to be observable ; and when they do shoot up here and there, they are denied, disowned, misinterpreted, and maligned. It is .rue that their development is often the symptom and effect of disease, which seems to change the relations of our material and immaterial parts; it is true that some of the phenomena resulting from these faculties are stimulated by disease, as in the case of spee- tral illusions; and it is true that imposture and folly in- trude their unhallowed footsteps into this domain of sci- ence, as into that of all others: but there isa deep and holy well of truth to be discovered in this neglected by- path of nature, by those who seek it, from which they may draw the purest consolations for the present, the most en- nobling hopes for the future, and the most valuable aid in penetrating through the letter into the spirit of the Serip tures,

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THE DICTIONARY OF DREAMS. The themes marked thus *, in the Lexicon, will be found im torpretedl in the body of the ble coincidence. ABRAHAM. To dream of any of the patriarchs is a favor- able omen, denoting in- crease of riches and honors, amiable children, triumph over rivals in love; and whatever he may say to you will prove to be true, and good counsel. ABSENCE upon ‘a distant journey, presages good for- tune and happiness. ABBOT. Long Vite. ABUSE signifies that secret enemies will try to injure you, in your dearest wishes, and will sueceed unless you use caution. ACTION. Great exertion de- notes loss to the married; success to lovers; happy marriage to maidens, and recovery to the sick. ASCENT to the skies, is a good omen, especially if they-appear bright. ACORNS presage long life and power. ACCOUNTS, réce'pts, bills, etc., presage wealth ‘and increase of influence. ADVERSARY. To meet him, denotes that you will over- come obstacles to your hap- piness, of whatever kind book, with an example of remarka the are, especially if you are conquered. AOLIAN HARP. Guardian- om of good spirits; fortune and much joy. AGUE. Inconstancy of friends or fortune. : AIR. A serene atmosphere denotes good fortune; tur. bid and streaked with col- ors, the reverse; and thick,- dark air, denotes trouble and: disappointment. Red and fiery, good for lovers —bad for a man with a quarrel. ALBATROSS. *. ALMONDS. Difficulties and deceit in love; storms to the sailor, and ill-suecess to tradesmen. ALONE. Exaltation and hap- piness in your future life, with the favor of Heaven. ALMS..Giving alms, signifies to the married that diffieul- ties will be overcome. To a maiden, it denotes deceit and intrigue in her Jover. _ sacrament at an altar, is 1% ALTAR. Receiving the holy +f ominous of misfortunesand heavy difficulties to the- aged; loss of love to the * young ; distress in business

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THE DICTIONARY OF te the commercial map, and| ARCH. To sickness or sudden death to the man of family. ANCHOR. *. ANGEI Ss, *. ANGLING signifies trouble jn obtaining your desires, which shall be overcome by erseverance, ANGER. After this dream, be careful whom you trust, for some of your friends are treacherous. To see another angry, may warn you to be eareful of your business concerns—or if you are on a journey, to take especial care of your health. ANIMALS. Many kinds, herd- ing together, denote some direful adventure. ANTS running about in con- fusion, denote loss in some enterprise for gain. Ifbusy in storing their winter food, it is indicative of success and plenty, and of happi- ness in marriage. If trod- den upon, you have power- ful seccet foes. ANTIQUITIES. The arrival of a dear friend, or an un- erpected| discovery. 63 ass under an arch, signifies length of life, with varied and etartling adventures of a pleasing termination. ARMS. If your arms appear withered, it denotes decay of fortune and health. [ff strong and lusty, success iz your undertakings, or maie children. ARROW. To find one is an omen of death. ASP. Riches, and good luck in love. ASSES. These animais denote fuithful servants, a tender sweetheart, and a flourish- ing business. To drive one, indicates a quarrel. To see one heavily loaded, is a sign of plenty and suo cess, B BACK. To dream of your backbone is a lucky omer, progeriong Leta ae Sores on the back, are indicative ef enemies; a naked back, of disgrace; a stroug one, of fortune, and a pleasant family. DREAMA ANVIL. Success and nonor, | BAILIFFS. To be arrested in spite of opposition and enmity. APPARITIONS. *. APRICOTS. Peace, friend- by one, denotes the escape from a neavy m‘sfortune. To a lover, the loss of his sweetheart. ship, and contentment, with , BARN. When full, « sign of ailivence. &PPLRS. Large and fair, suc- good fortune. If empty, of adversity. cess in love. Sour—discord | BASIN. Eating or drinking, and defeat. For the schol- ar to dream of delicious apples, presages progress and honor. APES. Falsehood in your uweetbeart; duplicity in your friends; losses by law. ' | out of a basin, denotes that ou will soon fall in lova f bright and new, your” love will be fortunate. BATHING. An empty batb ig a bad omen; but 40 be ip one, if clear, is good.

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THE ROMANCE OF DREAMA BATTLE. *, BAY-TREE. denotes riches and honors, and is an omen of great good. BEAUTY. *. BEAR. Vexation and perse- cution from a false friend. BEANS. Quarrels and vulgar interference in your affairs. BEARD. Fora man to dream of having along beard de- notes good fortune. To a woman it is a sign of her husband's death; or if a maid, of a speedy marriage, and boys for her first chil- dren. BED. To go to the bedside of a friend, in dreams, is a to- ken of loss; if to a lover's, of early marriage and hap- iness in your children. BEECH-TREE. Peace and rosper.ty. BEER. lf clear, a sign of good fortune; if turbid, of misfortune. BEES. At evork is a lucky omen, especially if under your own roof. If they ating you, you will be slan- dered. It isa better dream for the poor than the rich man, BEGGARS. To refuse alms to a beggar denotes want and misery. To be beset by them denotes calamity, unless you have the power to relieve their wants. BEHEADING. To be behead- ed isa sign of nobility; for death by the ax belongs only to those of gentle load. To see one beheaded anotes the rapid realiza- tion of your wishes. BEWILDERED. To be_puz- zled in a dream, is a siga of BIRDS. * BLIND. *. BLOWING. Tc blow a fire indicates anger mn yout lov: er.. To the rich, losses; te the poor, gains—in any ease ofe range of fortune, BLOOD. *, BOAR. *, BOAT; *. BOOKS. A printed book is a sign of honor; a blank book 0 pay in love. BOTTLE presages an hone orable death if empty; long life if full. BOW. A bended bow, foun indicates a pleasant sa rosperous journey. B ACELETS indicate wel come gifts from e ftiend whe is true. BREAD. *, BREEZE. Soft and yentle, s sigh of heppy love, to sail- ors a change of weather. BREWING denotes trouble in your business, e- with our own a BRIDE. Adorned, signifies joy and happiness for that ear, BRIDGE. Under a bridge, bitter disappointment; over it, good fortune. BRIERS. Pricked by them trouble with enemies. To see them without being burt by them, denotes trt- umph over enemies. BROOK. Running crear pleas. ure incompany with frienda, “f it flow into your house, # is a sign of wealth, BROTHER. *. BROTH. Gains in health ov wealth, ae ae BUILDINGS. Empty build inga, unhappiness in lov with strange adventures,

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THE DIUTIONARY OF DREAMS. BULLS. To be pursued or gored by one, an enemy in ower. BUTCHERS cutting up meat is an ill omen, denoting gickness and misfortune, if not disgrace and death. C. CAGE. Letting birds out of a cage, denotes a speedy mar- riage. If married, it is a sign of children. CAKES. Eating cakes, de- notes happiaess, and pros- erity in love and business. CAIN. This is a bad dream, denoting treachery and bru- 4ality, or disobedient chil- dren. CANDLES, burning bright, denote changes and diflicul- ties; if they go out, loss. CARDS. To hold the honors ~ denotes riches and honors. Diamonds denote quarrels, ‘hearts happiness, clubs money, and spades hard- . ships and disgrace. CARROTS denote prosperity, thriving children, aud suc- cessful suit in love. CASTLE. To dream of a cas- tie amid groves or floods, it bchooveth him to look to ; -his bodily welfare; and if he sees trophies or signe of honor borne away from these, it portends the death ef noble ladies or wise men. CATTLE. To feed cattle is a aign of prosperity : to drive them, riches; fat cattle, plenty; lean and hungry cattle, adversi*y. {LAVERNS denote obseurity, unless you make great ef- forts to rise from it. CHANGING-DREAMS. * CHAINS are a sign o mies; except in ae it denotes happmess. CHERRIES. Disappoit ment and vex«tion in lov and marriage CHICK EF YS denote ill-luck in you? mest ardent desires. CINLDIKEN, *, CHIMERA, *. CHUbUCH. To dream of enter- ing 4 besutiful church is a fort snate omen. CITINS. A stircing city is a rood emer for yourself and ricads; be cone empty and desolate ssreLodes misfor- tube. CLIMBING. *, CLOCK. One striking denotes speedy good fortune; un- less it strikes a late hour of the day, which is omineus of evil. COACK. To ride in one, fore- tells poverty and disgrace, or disappointments. COALS, if black, are a bad omen; if burning, a sigu of fidelity; if burnt out, of death. COFFIN. An empty coffin, good news; one with a corpse in, the death of a friend; one closed up, long life. COMETS:-*, CURN. Fields of growing corn, are an omen of suc- cess, and safety in travel. COMBING HAIR denotes that you will get out of difficulty. CRANES are a sign of quar- rels and misfortunes, or of the treachery of servants. CROCODILE. This is an omew of storms to sailors, am! “i uak vy) Avy one. Rite hen

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THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS CRs * CRO W.\6 portend elevation to dig. ‘y for men, and for- tuniate ".arr.age fer maid- ens. Crown-pieces of mon- ev denots misfortune. ORUTCHES > ¢ sign of the failare of you » kupes, if you are on them you'self; or j a fmend, the wave will hap- en to him, CRYING OUT. * CUCUMBERS ax « sign of good luck, inJ vy.overy to tie sick. > CUPID. *. others dead, is less fortx nate, x DEER, running, the accoms lishment off your plang o kil one, a legacy. Ou6 in your bouse, a sign of . wealth. Deer-horns indi-» cate honor end diguity, Several, fztving, your ac- quaiata see wal Tye extend- ed. In the weods, a token of innop 2r.ve. DELUSION. Deluded or dis appoint d unpleasantly, de uvles iol life At ARH DD. *, CURRANTS ta «u 88, 8uc-| DEVILdw otesaangerthreat cess, Consiaisy, Audi ricaes, unless ow ¢ Zeasc 2. 4 DAFFODI 4 rasnzw good fortunets .1) ein tvouble; but to tae sick are a sign of death. DAISY denotes noble, con- stant, and honcrable iyo. DAIRY. (> ¥e at work in on3, is . sign of frieadshin “and go) l ortune. DANCIN + presag2s new friends 1: +3, and ~ecovery from s. :knesa, DANDE [ON. To gather them, 54 sizn ofan cnemy: to sea 4 bed of them, of many 1 m.e3, who acretly try to ninre you. If iy love, your , vaetheart is falve, DANG. forebedes Lardy advex 12e3, with a Deppy erin 2au1 912, BARK + S93 presages dei ola- tion afb-despair, SEAT 4, fo dream of dyin cr baa dead, * & g300 9me1, presaging long life and 200d fortaaa. TS san ening yoo, whica you wi overcow t # DICE. An evil dream, unex oa dret.m you win, R DIGGING isa sign of wealtn. To dig « grave, of happy marriage, DIRT signifies loss of health, or place, or friends, ov — wealth. DITCHES, Deep ditches fora. tell trouble and loss. %OGS. If they fondle on you, it is a sign of good luck; tf they snarl and bark, of ena. pinay if they bite you, e: oss, DOLPHINS playing in ths water, denote the loas ef your sweetheart, or some near relation or friend; ara is not a good omen in any — DOVES. Friendship and love JS. Friendship and lo DRAGON. To slay one, de notes Pay gain and honor, DRINKING fresh, eold water, presages wealth and tri- umph; warm water, sick ness or persecution. Wine denotes the patronage the tion, cca

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THH DICTIONARY OF DREAMBM DROWNING. *, DRUNKENNESS presages that an unforeseen piece of good fortune awaits you, through the means of a new _ friend; also success in love. DUNGHILL. To be upon one is a sign of good luck, and ela7ation of fortune. E. RAGLE, perched high m. is a good omen, if you are of @ courageous spirit. EAR. If it seems fair and weil-shaped, Chee will come to renown; if deformea, the contrary. To pick the ear, ood news; if they are eaten or chafed, iii news. If you lose it, you wit: lose our friends. EARTHWORM. You have enemies, who are trying to undermine you, EARTHQUAKE should warn you to expect a change in our affairs. If the housea all around you, take warn- ing, and remove from your present residence as soon asyoucan. If they seem to stand, you may yet recover from your misfortunes, EATING with an enemy fore- tells reconciliation; with friends, division. EGGS are generally a good omen, denoting the acqui- sition of money; but to cook them, presages strife, sorrow, and anxiety. EMERALD signities renown, truth, and odelity. ENTERTAINMENTS. *. ECLIPSE OF THE MOON. The loss of a female friend or relation, ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. The death ofa malerelation ELEPHANT denotes luck in an enterprise, and the ac. quirement of riches, Ifyou are in love, your marricgs will follow, and you will blest. ELDERBERRIES. Gcod for tune and contentment. EVE. To dream of the ‘mother of all living,” is a very favorable sign. for yourself and family, pre- saging your future distine tion and ha pines: EVIL SPIRI S. You will have treacherous offers and suggestions made to you, To fight them, implies dan- ce overconre them, riumph, To be called by them, forebodes ill-fortune | or sickness. - EXECUTION. To witness an execution, indicates that you will afford relief to some one in distress, and make a friead. EYES. To ‘lose them, is a sign of misfortune and vexa- tion. If your eyebrows ap- pear to have grown thick and handsomely shaped, you will come to fortune ’ and distinction. F. FACES. Beautiful faces, pre: sage bonor and long life, Ugly, grinning ones, denote the reverse. FACTION. To be engaged in one, indicates wealth by indirect ways. FAIRY. To see one, is furtw nate for a woman hut eri for a man.

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70 FAIR. To be at a fair is a sign of an attempt to get ley advaatere of you. 8 1 you are in love, look out for our sweetheart. FALL. Fallixg, in dreams, denotes loss of place or goods, decline of business, shipwreck, and false love. #AN. For a maiden to be fanned by a man, denotes a new conquest For a man to have a dream of being fanned, denotes flattery and change. PAREWELL. To bid fare- well, or depart, without re- turning, betokens death. FEVER denotes difficulty with your friends, or loss of love, and sickness. FEET. To wash your feet, de- notes molestation and trou- ble. To have them scratch- ed, denotes loss by flattery. FIRMAMENT—CLOUDS. *. FIRE—FIREBRAND, *. FISH. *. FISH-POND denotes thriving fortunes. FILE denotes activity, and rapid exchange in your business. FIELDS. Green fields, a hap- py omen; plowed fields, ouble with children or friends; ripe fields, pros- raat and content. FIGHTING indicates 6 necessity for change of place, because you can not —- where youare. To he sai) or, storms and ship- wreck. ; FINGERS. If you cut them and they bleed, it is a good omen,. To lose them, de- notes a variety of misfor- tanes, : @TIE ROMANCE Uf DREAMS. FIGS presage prosperity and happiness, success in love, or a legacy. FILBERT'S. Anger, and trou- ble with friends, and disap- ointments. FISTULA indicates “munch ood, luck of every kind, Both for landsmen and sail: ors. FLEAS aenote enemies of a mean nature, and treachery of your sweetheart. FLIES are significant of per- secution and slander, and much vexation. FLOODS. Opposition from owerful persons. .To be evoured by one, that you will leave your native land to seek better fortunes. FLOWERS. *. FLYING *. FLAGEOLET. To hear one played, trouble and conten- tion. FLUTE, To hear or play on oné, annoyance and strife FLESH To gain flesh, denotes increase of fortune; to lose it, the reverse. To dream of eating all kinds of flesh, signifies sickness and trou. ble. FORGOTTEN DREAMS, half dreamed over, are ominous of loss. : FORESTS. To seem lost ina | forest, signifies trouble. FORGE. To be working at one, signifies the pursuit of new projects, and an add}. tion to your fortune. FORTUNE. To get back an estate, once lost, is a good omen, and indicates the probability that your dream will prove true.

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THE DICTIONARY OF DREAMA POLLY. For a woman to dream sho has become fool- ish, isa Sign of a male child; or a maiden, speedy mar- riage. FOX is a forerunner of diffi- cultr. Sharpers will over- reach you, and your sweet- heart prove untrue. FROGS are an omen of in- crease in friends and for- tunes, LRUITS, if sweet and in sea- son, are a good omen; if sour or out of season, they indicate unpleasant rela- tions with friends. < FRIEND. If you see one dead, he shall be married; or if | GT married, dead. FOUNTAIN, clear and pure, the relief from all trouble. FUNERAL. You will assist at a wedding. FURNITURE. Beautiful fur- niture is a good omen; bro- ken and ugly, a bad one. To be displaying it, is a sign of trouble. G. GAMES. To be engaged in sports of this kind, is omi- nous of misfortune. GARDEN. A garden full of flowers and gay with people, is a good omen; but silent and deserted, is a token of sorrow and grief. GALLOWS. Yo dream of see- ing the gallows is a favora- ble omen for pent, or for a@ maiden in love, and de notes honor and prosperity GARMENTS *, GARLIC. To eat § , wgni? the discovery of 7, 7 ot, - Dleasantt hin Fi GENS—JEWELRY. *. GEESE denote good, saad that you will see absent friends, They augur suo cess in marriage, and ‘iu obtaining riches, GIANTS are ominous of good. Your fortune shall exceed your expectations, and your enterprises will be large. GIBBET. To see a person hanging to a gibbet, is a sign of misfortune. GIFTS. To réceive them, is a good omen; but to give any thing away, is a fore- runner of adversity, and in- constancy in love. N. Pleasure, followed by dissatisfaction. GIRDLE. Wearing an old girdle, signifies Tamas and pain; a new one, strength and good fortune. GLASS denotes inconstancy in your sweetheart. If you break it, you will be forsa- ken. To receive water in a lass, is a good omen. To reak one, and spill the contents, foretells the death of a friend. GLOBE. To study a globe signifies that you will bea great traveler; if in love, you will not marry your resent sweetheart, but will nd another in a strange country. GOOD. to do a good action indicates a coming pleas ure: to receive oue is & sign of fro. GOOSEB RRIES. Betoken many sons and success ig life. To the sailor dangers; to a maiden a roving how band. . ‘ GOLD. *, «

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or Z > PRI EE as THR ROMANCE OF DREAMS GONDOLA. To sail in one, if the water is clear, success in love. GRAIN. *. GRAPES. A good fortune, and cheerful companion for * life; also true love. GRAVE. To see 2 grave fore- tells sickness and trouble. Yo desoend into one loss of money and friends; if you rise out, you will overcome difficuities; and if you help another out, you will save a 8. GROVES. *. GUARDIAN -SPIRITS. To see one indicates that you have the love of some one whom you'do not know: and betokens happiness. GUNS. To see or hear them fired off, is a sign of adver- sity. If you fire one, you will be involved in a diffi- culty, GYPSY. Tosee one is lucky for loyers, but none others. i. HAIR. White hair on your- self portends affliction and also honors. To lose your hair is indicative of loss of or BAIL. Hail-storms presage a ‘stormy life for a time, with tbe coldness of some near friends. WAND. A raised or uplifted hand signifies that you will be raised from your sorre w. HANGED. To be hanged sig- nifies the elevation of your fortunes. WAT. Torn or dirty, betox- ens dishonor. Nice and pleasant, good-fortune. NARK*® betokens consclation to the sorrowful; joy to ail, HAWKS. Are a sign cf ob. taining your wishes. HEAD. TS dreain it enlarged signifies esteem, unless the dreamer ia sick. To taka eat care of your head étokens deliverance {rc 2 danger, HEAD-TURNED. You wl be restrained from leaving our present residence, HAV uN. To see heaven de- notes joyful events; toclimb to it, onor. HILLS. Climbing them be- tokens difficulties and die Spenn Hoene- ; HOLIDAYS and _ festivity are ominous of misery and mourning. HOME, To return home sig- nifies an end of grief. : HORSES. *. HORNS signify dominion and grandeur. To see oth- ers wita them is a sign of enmity of superiors. HOUSE. To build ono is a ood omen; to see one on re or destroyed in any way is ominous of evil. HUNGER is a good omen, denoting ambition and high fortunes. HUNTER, *. i hana pe hh To dream o! a plow denotes prosperity ; of a yoke, bad roe agbaty Bs it be broken; of a gecythe, enemies; of a team, death in the family, or a breaking off with a sweetheart, I, IDOL. To worship one m ¢ dream signifies pleasant

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THE DICTIONARY OF DREAMA peas and gayety, but that u will eventually tire of hese thiigs, and alter your habits. IDIOT. To seem an idiot, or mad, denotes long life and many friends, who shall eling to you for your amia- ble qualities. LWE. To see vast fields of ice alone denotes desolation ; but to skate upon it in com- any is a sign of pleasures. o take ice in your hands denotes that your sweet- heart is pure and true. IGNOMINY. To suffer shame resages false accusations, rom which you will rise justified. ILLUMINATED. Houses il- luminated signify quarrels, either public or private. IMAGE. Pictures or images betoken children, and are good omens otherwise. INQUEST. To be at an in- uest is a good omen: and if it be a relative whose ih- quest it is, you will receive a legacy. INTRIGUE. To be engaged in an intrigue, is an evil _omen. INN. To be at an inn, is not a good sicn: some of your friends will be unfortunate, and tana own goods are in eri. ON. To be working iron, signifies disunion and strife ; but to see or handle cold _tron, is a good omen [VY denotes good fortune, and true friends. To be crowned with it, is a sign of triumph. J. JEAIASUBSY. To be jealous of your sweetheart, is a good sign, for she is true to you. JOCKEY. For a lady to seea jockey riding at full speed signifies that she will speed ily have an offer of mar riage ; for a man to see ove, sudden good luck, JOY. To feel great joy, is a token of disappointment. JUBILEE, To dream of being at a jubilee, is a token that a fortune will be left you. JUG signifies unforeseen events, perhaps a journey. If what you drink out of a jug is pleasant, so will be your adventures, or the wrranend x JUNIPER. To gather juniper berries, signifies early mar- riage to the single, or pros- erity to the married, un- ess the dreamer be sick cr KEYS signify a geod wife husband, and ahappy home, with prosperity, But to lose one is a sign of misfor. tune or bad faith. KINGS. To meet aking alone presages the overcoming of old difficulties, and an ele- vation of fortune, unless he seems angry with you, KITE. To see a boy’s kite soaring on high, is a good omen. But the bird of that name is an omen of he __ mies. KISSING. To kiss a frierd is a good omen; to kiss an enemy, reconciliation; te kiss strangers, danger, i pot death,

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7% KNIVES denote strife and} sow KNOWLEDGE. To be seek- ing oracquiring knowledge, denotes a discovery, which wil' add to your satisfaction. L LABOR. To be very hard at work, signifies an unprofit- able undertaking. If a woman dream she is over- taken with child-labor, it is ' a sign of trouble; and if she have a dead child, her dearest hopes will miscarry. LADDER. To see a ladder, the dreamer will travel; if he climb one, he will attain honor and dignity; to fall from one denotes calamity. LADIES. Ladies with black hair presage sickness; those with fair hair, a happy Ue- event. Very beautiful go en locks on a lady, signify wealth. A beautiful, wn- known lady, is a sign of “wealth, especially if she kiss you; if she seem to pray, it announces some great good fortune. #ADY-LOVE. If she smile, it is a good omen; if she looks coldly away, you will have trouble on her account. LAKE. A tranquil, glassy lake, joy and content. LAMB. To feed or bring a lamb to slaughter, signifies torment. To see one quiet- ‘ly feeding upou grass, is a ood omen. MPS. Lamps or lights, shining out of a house, sig- weg poe LAND. It is good to dream of owning , if cultivated : THE ROMANCE Of GRE WS ié denotas a good wif, leasant ome, and friends in plert : LANTERN. To see ona ex- tinguished, is a sign of death. LAUGHING, Dream oflaugh ing, and waken to sorrow. LAUREL. The laurel-tree is a sign of victory and pleas- ure. If married, it denotes aninheritance. Toamaiden good fortune in marriage. LAWYERS. To dream of being engaged in law, pre- sages grief, misery, and ruip, unless you seem to be in court, when you will suc- ceed in any present under- eae LEAPING. To leap over ditches, or other obstacies, denotes success after triais. LEAP-YEAR. To think you are in the leap-year, is a very good omen, and indi- cates extraordinary succeas in all your enterprises. LEOPARUVS foretell honor ifter +: zuble and treachery. LEGS. Any thing the matter vith your legs, is a very bad omen. - LETTERS * LETTUCE, or other salads, eaten, signify trouble in your affairs, LEMONS denote contention, disappointmentand cruelty, LICE. To kill them in num- bers denotes relief from tcvablesome enemies. LIGHT. *. LIGHT-HOUSE. Profitable advice or seasonable warn- ing. LILIES. Garden-lilies, ris ‘ water-Llies, danger frosi the sea.

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THE DICTIONARY OF DREAMS. ~*~ LINEN. Dressed in clean linen, denotes the receipt of good news; dirty linen, i-news and ill-luck, LION foretells the patronage of those in power; or if an- ry, their enmity. LIPS. To have them seem red and handsome, denotes the health and good fortune of your friends. Ifdry and colorless, the contrary. - LYING. To seem to be telling lies, is not a good omen, and you will be deceived. * “WIZARD. Il-luck by unknown enemies. IOVE. To be in love fore- bodes long sorrow, uuless it is returned, which denotes rosperity. The love of a Deantifal woman signifies varied fortunes. M. MADNESS presages fortune and favor from those in ower, mit. To have a young maid’s love is a good omen; but to carry her off by vio- lence signifies great adver- sity. MARRIAGE presages death to the sick, but is favorable to those about engaging in business. To others, tbis dream signifies strife and care. : MEAT raw, is not a good omen; but dressed is more fortunate: and if acccm- — with ether pleasant ishes, signifies a legacy. 4EDDLERS mischief; if you reprove them, you wHl triumph, DELCNS signify content, or rootvery to the sick. are an omen of 73 MERRIMENT. To be a :o0k. er-on of scenes of merr? ment, is a good omen — 11'r riage you will have trou. le. MICE denote accumulation of riches. To the ‘aruwerz ylentiful crops, sfLK. To sell milk, you w' be crossed in love. ‘J drink it, you will hear gooa news. To see a Woman'y breast flowing milk ia an excellent omen, MILL presages the settlement of affairs long troubling rou, MIRROR. To see yourself in a mirror signifies new friends, or the return of old ones. If you break one, you will be slandered. If you sce one spotted and dim, your brother or friend will disgrace himself. MIRE. To be sticking in it — long and great ifficulties. MOONLIGHT on water is « ood dream for lovers, The Full moon denotes peace, plessore, also plenty. MONEY. To see money, or find it, is a good omen; but countiag it denotes trou- ble in your affairs, MONSTER. *. MORN! 74 STAR. To see the morning or evening star shining clear and bright, signifies strange adventures and travel. MOTHER. To see her al.re and smiling ia a happy omen; but to dream ef her death signifies sorrow. - se flee eg a see a8 throng of people hurryi to acd fro, ge sgn tet

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78 woman of unexpected fa- vor from a man; and vice versa. MULBERRIES betoken good fortune to all who dream of them in season, MURDER. *. MUSIC. *. MYRTLE is a favorable omen to lovers and algo for farm- ers. N. NIGHT AND DAY regularly succeeding denote a diver- sified life. RIGHTINGALES _ singing, betoken great good news. NIGHTMARE DREAMS are often ominous. If you hear @ voice, attend to what it says. HUN. To see a nun, is a sure sign of the loss of some one dearly beloved. NUTS. Clusters of them de- note riches and happiness; to crack them, a age NAILS. Long nails denote wealth, and success in life generally. NAKEDNESS. To dream of a naked woman is a lucky omen, foretelling great good fortune which you did not expect. A naked man is not favorable. NECTARINES signify strife, infidelity ; and to the sailor, bad weather. NYMPHS. Sea-nymphs fore- tell pleasure, with a melar- eholy end. 0. QAR TREX. Wealth and long kfa j THE ROMANCR OF DREAMB OFFICE. To be turned out of office in a dream, foretell loss of affection, usoney, oF rlace. OLIVES. Eating them, signi. fies good fortune; gather ing them, vexation. OLD AGE. To be old, signi fies speedy good news. To see an old man or weman, and they be muking affee tionate advances, i3 a sign of the love of the young. ONIONS denote hidden mis- chief; still, if you seem to . i . gather them, it is a good omen, if any of your family are sick. ORANGES | signify loss of goods or reputation. ORCHARD. To be in an orchard denotes that you will become rich by inherit- ance. It also signifies ad- vancement in worldly af: fairs, and plenty of children, OWL. This dream foretells various misfortunes, and forewarns of treachery. OVEN shows that after mang difficulties you shall be srospered. OYSTERS denote pleasure and plenty, thriving busi- ness, and success in love, Fs PAINTING presages success in love; honor and pros: Fee in life. PALMS. To gather palms denotes plenty, riches, and a Ligh station, PAPER. Fair, clean paper, denotes agreeable pursuits; if written ower, hasty news; if rumpled and ill written, you wi.) learn of diftimalisoa, rarer

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"POMEGRANATES THE DICTIONARY OF DREAMA’ @ATHS sAcnooth, good paths, are signifcaut of easy for tunes; rongh and uneven opes, of bardsbips aud inis- fortunes, FRAKILS denote weeping. PEACONK This bird is sig | gificact of riches aud sue- cess; also of vanity. PREACHES. Happy love. PEAKS. Elevation in fe, with affable connections. PERFUMES. *, PICTURES — PORTRAITS ba ged new friends, who will give us great pleasure ; except they seem to move, which is a.bad omen. PHANTOMS flitting silently around, forebode evil. PIGEONS signify hasty good news. To lovers they are a sign of a message. PIT. dt you fall in, you will have @ great misfortune. If you are in, and dream of climbing out, you will es- cape many difficulties. PLAYS. To be at a play de- notes good lucy and merti- ment. PLUMS signify scandal, vexa- i | RASPBOGR tion, and disappointment. POND. A pond of clear water ! sigailies peace and content at home, cart, PRISON presages hinderance in poe needful affairs, or rolonyed sickness. Yet those 'n extreme danger it ia an omer of safety. PROSPERITY. Dreams of | eat prosperity presage isappoivptment, ; : PURSE. To find ane is a} foretell fuerte and honor; also, ovd teroper in-your sweet. | v7 good omen, and denotes the safety of your love, your fortune, and your friends, To lose one is a bad omen, Q. QUARRELING denotes trou- ble and false love. | QUILLS — BRISTLES. To seem covered with” these is a very unfortunate omen. QUINCES indicate favorable fortunes, and extricatien from all present cares. R. RACING. To run a race it a zood omen, unless you are eaten. Riding arace shows disappointment. RAIN, A gentle rain is omi- nous of good fortune, espe- cially for the sick. A vio- lent rain is a sign of the destruction of your hopes. RAINBOW. This is a prom. * ising omen to the poor, the prisoner, or sick. To a desponding lover it is a token of fe : ES signify profit and p.easure; alsu health, | RATS signify enemies or theves, RAVER @enote mischief and adveraitv, falsehood and infidelit j BEA DING betokens agreoa- ble and honorable pursuits, If you read any thing re- markable, it is intended ag a warning. RED. To see nuch red, crim- son garments, a lurid sky, or other «beng of a sanguine hue, is e bad omen.

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REST — TRANQUILLITY. Sweet repose and quiet yresages turmoil and care. RIDING. To ride pleasantly denotes prosperity; but with great speed, the ~e- verse. RING. To wear a gold ring betokens dignity, wealth, and regard. To lose a ring denotes loss of love. RIVERS. Clear, gently flow- ing rivers are ominous of good. But muddy or tor- rent-like, they portend mis- Tae ROCKS. *. RODS. To be struck with a rod signifies perfidy in a friend. A broken rod sig- nifies separation of friends or lovers. ROSES in their season are a good omea; but out of it, a sign of trouble. RUINS signify repentance and remorse; also Of bro- ken fortunes. 8. B {LING. *. If you sail a along, you shail ave agreeable fortune; but if storms arise you may ex- pect them in your life. <A wreck is a very unfavorable omen. SAILORS. If you dream of one, expect reward or rofit, BAiNT AGNEW’ EVE. *. BEA. To behold a quiet sea, is an omen of good imyort, and signifies great deeds. A stormy sea signifies great * trouble. To hear the roar- ing of waves, foretells con- fasion and strif Ss THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS SEA-SHELLS denote a journey, and rews from afar. SERPENT. *. Sil IP sailing away from shore, is a sign of grief. SHAVING. Te shave or be shaved, denotes loss oF treachery ; shipwreck to the sailor, and infidelity te lovers. SHEEP. A flock feeding quietly is ominous of pros- perous circumstances; but to see these animals shorn, is indicative of loss. To shear them yourself, shows that you will get an advan- tage over some one. SHOOTING. To kill game ia a favorable dream, and in dicates good cheer. SHOES. New ones indicate success in some chosen pro- fession ; marriage to a maid: en, and a good husband. Poor, torn shoes, show com: ing loss. SILK. To be clothed in it foretells rise in honors, witb much trouble. It betokene to a woman that her hus band is unfaithful; to + maiden that she will see her lover soon. SILVER denotes friendship - It is not good, however, to pick up silver money. To & woman it signifies a girl in good time. SINGING. To hear ‘singi’ denotes the nondeaiadlon ak hopes; but to be singing disappointment. SLEEP. To seem to be asleep betokens peace. To see t man asleep, enmity; abeaa tiful woman, deceit; a hur band or wife, happinese

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THE DIC1ONAR.’ OF DREAMS SNOW signifies fond and true love; also afiluence. BOLDIERS betoken quar-els and discontent BORES signify calamity and disgrace. If the scabs fatl off, you will eventually overcome your difficulties. SPIRITS. *. BVITE. To-revenge yourself spitefully, is a bad omen, SPIT. If you turn a spit, it signifies that your fortune i] be very perverse in all respects, SQUIRREL shows mischief and meddling. BTARCHING, To starch lin- en, indicates an industrious husband and a_ pleasant home. It also signifies some cause for pride. STARS. *. STATUES, *. STRANGE PLACES. To be in a strange place is a sign of inconstancy ; but also of ood news. B7RAWBERRIES signify much pleasure and good luck, whee in season. BUN. To see the sun rise in a dream, isan excellent omen; but better still, if it shines intu your house. STORM. *, SWALLOWS. Grief and part- SWAN. To see one, presages wealth; to bear one sing is a sign of death, WIMMING. To swim with our head out of the water, ig a token of success; but & be a'together under the water of disappointment. T TAMARINDS signify vet tion and disappointment b one of the other sex. ; TWARS, Weeping presages happiness on waking. TEETH. Tou lose a tooth, sty. nifies the loss f a friend, To ent one, a new friend, or the birth of a child, TEMPESTS denote peace after trials, TERROR. To be much tern fied 1s a bad dream for the sick; and often tdicates danger to those in health, THUNDER. Peals of thunder sheard in dreams, are the yoices of angels. TOAD. To see a toad presages quarrel, deceit, treachery. TOMB. *. TOWERS. To see them, de notes envy. To dwell is them, favor of the great To destroy them, unexpect ed power. TREES. *. TREASURE. To find it, ominous of treachery of } bosom friend; if you see notable to take it away wits you, it denotes a heavy losa TRUMPETS. Hearing thew signines trouble and ce. lamity. TURNIPS signify the seqm sition of riches. v. UNKNOWN PERSONS, #. uz VIOLETS. To see them in sea son is ominous of modest and happy love. OICES. *. swee)

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68 Ww. nm WAKING. To seem to be awake, denotes rapid ad- yancemoent in all things. WALKING, To be fatigued wth walking denotes trou- ble; to walk in the dirt, great vexation with friends WATCH. *. WATER. To cross ciear, fair water, is a sign of a ing, and of overcoming ob- stacles. WATER MILL indicates thrift in your affairs. WASTE PLACES betoken a lonely old age. WATERFAL speedy lezacy. WAVES. Stormy waves sig- nify trouble; but gently rotling waves, great acces: WALNUTS. Rude fortunes and domestic troubles. WHDDING. To be at a -wed- ding denotes disappoint- * ment. : : WHEAT. A field of wheat, | waving in the sun and} breeze, ‘signifies the fulfill- ment of your most sanguine | wishes. WILLOW. A sign of grief to all save mariners. WINDS Soft and gentle winds tre favorable for lov- ete; ‘empestuous winds denotes a THE ROMANCE OF DREAMA signify dealings with here& and dishonest men. WINE. To taste wine is a good omen; but to see it spilt denotes loss of high hopes. WOOD. To cut wood signifies the coming to a respectable station for the poor; but ~ for the rich, loss 6f estate To seem to walk in a pleas- ant wood is a good sign. WOOL. To seem to be buy- ing or selling it denotes affluence. To dream you have wool on your head in ominous of sickness, WOUNDS. To get a sword wound is a favorabie omen, signifying honor and riches. « WRENS signify happiness and domestic contént ;“also_ plenty. WRITING. To dream of writ- ing presages the receipt of » news, If you write in @ ab vou will fall much in ove. a YOUNG. To fancy yoursels — young egain, as in times past, is ominous of disgrace and affliction. YOUTH. For a woman to dream her youth is restored is a good omen, and the fulfil!ment of some long cherished hope will follow,

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BEADLE’S DIME SCHOOL MELODIST,. COMPRISING THE Music and Words of familiar and beautiful Songs, Duets, Trios, etc., ar ranged in a simple manner for School Singing, with elementary instrue tions suited to children of the most tender age. Compiled and arranged by Gaorer C, REXFORD. A boat, a boat, A farmer's life, A smile from thee, Blow, blow, blow, Bonnie Eloise, Bright rosy morning, Busy bee, Ytanadian boat song, Chairs to mend, Chimney nook, Day is fading, Elements of music, Ettie May, Kver of thee, Far o'er hill and dell, Fare thee well, Flowers and sunshine, Flow gentiy, Afton, Gallant and gaily, Gentle troubadour, Yappy school-boy, Hark, *tis the bells, Harvest time, Haste thee winter, House that Jack built, Hazel dell, I love the merry suns’e I choose to be a daisy, In words of joy, Joy of innocence, Joy, freedom to-day, Lightly row, Little cottage, Merry sleighride, Morning rambles, Morning call, Morning has come, Murmur gentle lyre, Music murmuring, Over hill, over dale, Over the summer sea, Peaceful slumbering, Roun for four voices, tow, fishermen, row Scotland’s barning, See our oars, Song of the mountain, Spring is here, Smiling May, Sweet birds singing, Swiizer’s song, The sleighride, The invitation, The river, The bell doth toll, Time to walk, T'yrolese even’g hymn, Vesper bell, We are all noddin, What can the mat’r be When tempted to, - Working boy. BEADLE’S DIME MELODIST COMPRISING THE Music and words of the new and most popular songs snd ballads, by J. R. Tuomas, Georce F. Root, W. V. Watiace, GrorGce LINLEY, STEPHEN GLovER, SamveL Lover, and other eminent composers. A hundred years ago, A lowly youth, Anna Bell, Annie Lowe, Be quiet, do, T'l] call, Bime, bome bell, Bonnie Eloise, (-rry me to Tennessee, | sie May, ’r on the deep sea, are thee well, Katy, orgive, ype on, hope ever, chad a gentle mother, Mil dream no more, n the wild chamois, <eemo kimo, fennie’s bonnie e’e et me like a soldier die ove me liitle tarion Lee, | Once upon a time, } One cheering word | One parting song, ; | | | | CONTENTS. Mary of Lake Enon, Mary of the glen, Mother, sweet mother, My love, he is a saileur, My soul in one sigh, Oft in the stiily night, Oh, whisper what thou, Old Jose y, Poor Thomas Day, Pretty Nelly, Round for three voices, Scenes that are bright’t Sleeping I dreamed, Softly, ye night winds, Some one to love, Strike the light guitar, Swinging all day long, | (10) *Tis pleasant young, ’Tis the hour of love, rhe dearest spot of, The female smuggler, The good-byat the door, The hazel del}, The leaves that fall, The low-backed car, The mother’s smile, The old folks are gone, The winds that waft, There is a flower, There is darkness, Thon art mine own Where is home? Why do I weep, Widow Machree, | Wild Tiadatton, Winsome Winnle, Work, work,

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BEADLE’S DIME BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, For Ladies and Gentlemen: being a Guide to True Gentility and Good Breeding, and a Complete Directory to the Usages and Observances of Society. Including Etiquette of the Ball Room, of the Evening Party, the Dinner Party, the Card and Chess Table, of Business, of the Home Circle, etc., etc. Prepared expressly for the ** Dime Series,” by a Com- mittee of Three. CONTENTS, ENTRANCE INTO SOCIETY.—Confidence ys, bashfulness, Kindness vs. rudeness, the Bores of Society, how to treat them. ON DRESS AND ORNAMENTS.—The vulgarity of ‘Flash attire, simplicity in Dress a mark of good-breeding. ON VISITS, INTRODUCTIONS, Erc.—The law of Politeness a law of asa when Visits are proper, Introductions, Presentations, etc., and orms. EVENING PARTIES, DANCES, Erc.—The Et’ quette of tbe Ball Room, general directions for the same. GAMES OF CARDS, CHESS, Frc.—When proper ana now conducted, general Rules of the Games, the ill-brseding of Betting or Bragging. ON CONVERSATION,—Its usefulness and good results, how to com: port yourself, directions for it. ON LETTER AND NOTE WRITING.—Proprieties and Improprieties of the same, gencral directions for a good letter. HOW TO GIVE AND RECEIVE INVITATIONS.—General usage in all cases. ON ENTERTAINMENTS.—The Etiquette of the Table, how to serve a Guest, and how to be served, special directions. ON PERSONAL CLEANLINESS—A word tothe Laborer—On Religion and Respect for Age—On Theaters, Promenades, etc.—On Love, Court- ship and Marriage—The Jaws of Home Etiquette—Special Advice to Ladies—General Observations and Closing Chapter. — BEADLE’S DIME LETTER-WRITER, And Practical Guide to Composition: Embracing Forms, Models, Sugges- tions and Rules for the use of all classes, on all occasions; also a List of Improper Words and Expressions, together with their Correct Forms And also a Complete Dictionary of Mottoes, Phrases, Idioms, etc, By Louris Leeranp, M. D. CONTENTS. COMPOSITION.—The secret of a good Letter—Directions to the Novice -the rules of Composition, etc. GENERAL ADVICE TO LETTER WRITERS, LETTERS OF BUSINESS. LETTERS OF PLEASURE AND FRIENDSHIP. LETTERS OF LOVE.—Hints and Suggestions- -A Declaration—Answer --A briefer declaration of attachment—Answer—Real Love-letters of Eminent Personages,ctc. LETTERS OF DUTY, OF TRUST, ETC.—What they are and how te write them—Forms, etc.--Advice from a Lady to her Friend; a Complaint at silence—Communicating distressing news—to Parents, informing of the illness of their Son, etc. LETTERS OF RELATIONSHIP.—Family correspondence—Its sacred eharacter and proprieties—Examples of real Letters, ete. LETTERS OF VARIOUS OCCASIONS.—A certificate of Character—An- other, fora Maid—Another’ for a Clerk—Application for a School-Teach- er’s Place—Soliciting a Vote—Declining a nomination—a Girl applying for a place—Another—A pplication for a Governesa’ situation, etc. WRITING FOR THE PRESS. IMPROPRIETIES OF EXPRESSION, PHRASES, MOTTOES, IBIOMS, ya (14)

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BEADLE’S DIME HAND-BOOK OF YACHTING AND ROWING! A COMPLETE MANUAL OF THE Science and Practice of the two Pastimes, EDITED BY HENRY CHADWICK, AUTHOR OF “ BEADLE’S DIME BOOK OF BASE-BALL,” ETC, This volume will be found very complete as a guide to the conduct of atercraft, and full of interesting information alike to the amateur and he novice. The chapter referring to the recent great rowing-race betweeu he Oxford and Cambridge clubs, on the Thames river, will be found par- lcularly interesting. The following is a synopsis of the CONTENTS. N YACHTING—The Yacht Clubs of England; the Yacht Clubs of Amer- ica; Other Yacht Clubs ; Learning to Sail a Boat; on Steering; Regattas and Races; Sailing Regulations; Glossary of Nautical Terms. N ROWING—English Laws of Boat-Racing; New York Clubs ; Hints to Rowers ; the Great Boat Race of 1867—Oxford versus Cambridge, ‘HE GREAT OCEAN YACHT RACE OF DECEMBER, 1866—The Start from New York; the Logs of the Yachts, ‘HE HARVARD AND YALE COLLEGE CONTESTS. For sale by all newsdealers ; or sent, post-paid, to any address, on receipt f price—TEN CENTS. BEADLE AND COMPANY, Publishers, 118 William Street, WN, Y. BEADLE’YS DIME HAND-BOOK OF Riding and Driving’! A sure guide to correct Horsemanship, with complete directions for the dad and field, and a specific section of directions and information for ‘emale Equestrians. Drawn largely from “ Stonehenge’s’”’ fine manual, this volume will be sund all that can be desired by those seeking to know all about the Horsé nd his management in harness and under the saddle. BEADLE AND COMPANY, Publishers, 118 William Street, N. Y,

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