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CONTENTS.

JV'TRODUCTORY, ~ -

"5V ROMANCE OF DREAMS:
n‘mbodying Dreams of all Kinds and Character,
with the Construction placed upon them by the

most Eminent Authorities, and Narratives of the
Extraordinary Fulfillment of them, -& o 7.49

.‘HE PHENOMENA OF DREAMS :
A Physician's Views ofthe Subject, giving a Rational
Soluticn of the PhenomenaI with Instances ciLed in
. from, - - - - - - - - - 50—57

HRS. CATHARINE CROVVE'S TESTIMONY:
Favoring the Supernatural Nature of Dreams, and a
Belief in their Revelations, - ' - - 57-63

s‘iGTIONABY 0F DREAMS:
Gomprising the most Complete Interp"etation-Dic-
liionazyml’repared, embracing the whole 41pm-
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INTRODUCTION.

DREAMS in their development have breath,

And tears, and tortures, and the touch ()l'joy;

They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts;
They take a weight from oil' our waking toils;

They do divide our being. They become

A portion ofourselves, as ot'our time;

And look like heralds of eternity.

They pass like spirits of the past—[hey spat}: _
Like sybils of t/wfulurc. —-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 [rt-Ming 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 Ahimeleeh 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 Bahylon, and his prophecies,
were wholly attrihutahle to a like origin,”

The Greeians and Romans attached oraeular power to
dreams, and history gives many instances of the singular
connection hetwcen 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: .

Dreams be signification:

As well ofjoy :1st tribulations.

That folks endure in this life present:

There necdeth to make of this none argument.

 

 

v! INTl'tOI)UCT01:‘.'.

The German novelists make use of the relation of singu.
tar 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, Bu wer, in his
“Pilgrims of the Rhine,” gives a strange story 0 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‘aSe
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 suhject we would say, that in the Encyclo-
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 slccp instructs, nor sports vain dreams in vain.
-——Youx0.

The question of the phenomena of dreams is discussed
quite alle in the two essays given in the body of this

volume. Bc 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.

 

 

THE

Romance of Dreams.

ALBATROSS.

To dream of killing an albatross 2's an em? omen.—
THE SYBIL. -

llmv long in this same {it I la-y,
I have nut to declare;

But ere my living life rutum'd,

I heard, and in my soul disccrn’d
Two voxcss in the air.

“ Is it he?” qnnth one; “ Is this the man?
By him who died on cross,

With his cruel buw he laid flilrlow
The harmless albatross.

The spirit who bideth hy himself
In the land of' mist and snow,

He loved the bird that Inn-Ll the man
\Vho shot him with his bow.”

The other was a softer voice,
As soft as honey-dew;
Quoth he, “ The mun hath penance done,
And penance more will (10.”
——-\.\'ch.\‘1‘ HAMMER.

ANGELS HEAVEN.
To dream of angels prcsagcs joy and prORpm-z'tg/ with
the fulfilment of our dearest Izr)pe.—-ACII.\mT SMITH.

St. Augustine relates 01' a brother in the church that, in
A vision, ho behold the Golden City, and heard the song

 

 

 

8 THE ROMANCE or DREAMS.

of the ransomed, which so strengthened him in his reli.
giuas faith, that doubts previously entertained were en-
tirely banished from his breast—Dmths: BY CHARLES
A. )[t'xumL

It has, nevertheless, pleased God, as appears in Holy
“'rit, to give Very important counsel at times to saints,
(lurng sleep. St. Augustine reports that St. Monica, his
mother, emnprehettded, by certain pleasing sensations, the
revelations whit-h it pleased God to make to her during
sleep, and whieh her imagination represented to her dur-
ing the dreaxm ot' the night—4n: SACY: 0x DREAMS.

ANCHOR.

To dream of an unrhm' denotes security, and long
dqfcl'rud lmpes 'I'erllel'erl.—'l‘1m Snub.

At. first all dearlly shapes were driven
Tnnmliumwl)’ aeruss her sleep,

And o'er the \‘ast eupe nt' [tendingr heaven
All ghastly ‘. l>\;l;:(‘(l eluuds did sweep;

And, as toward the east she, turn’d,
She, saw alul't in the morning,r air,

“'hieh new \\ ith hues ut'sunrise lutrn'd,
A great lilaeli anehur l‘lSltlf; there;

And \\'here'rer the. lady tizrn'd her eyes,

_ 1t hung hum-t: her in the skies.

The air was ealut as it could l)(',

There \'.'::\' nu sight nur snunll of dread,

lint that ltlzu'k :lilt'ilttl' floating .still

(her the. piney eastern hill.

—-rll.\1:1.\l\'.\'t4:'s Damn: SHELLEY.

Al’l‘AllITIUNS.

117mm yam dream of swing an apparztt'on, it will be
well (n {mt/'1‘? {/26 «rm-(Is and appearance of the person.
{frat/11511 If, (/x (/H‘j/ (H'I’ MANN/11.7 sent for warnings Qf
kHch [qu«waif/19’ (IV/mu .I- (21' [n.v;x.~—'t‘nn Snub.

Mrs. (‘—— and her tlaltu'ltler were sleeping in the same
bed in ('heltenhant, “he-u the tnnther dreamed that her
brotlter-in-law, then in lrelfind, had sent for her; that she
mttered his rgotn, and saw him in bed, apparently dyian.
[Ie requested her to kiss him, bi’tt, owing to his 11nd

 

 

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appearance._she shrank from doing so, and awoke with
horror of the scene, upon her. The daughter awoke at;
the same moment, saying: “ (in, I have lead sueh a fright-
t'ul dreaan7 “Oh, so have I,” returned the motherf‘fl
have been (qutlllllllg of my lirother-in—law." “ My dream
was' about him, too," added Miss (‘——., “I thought 1
mm sitting in the drawine-room, and that he came in
wearng a shroud, trimmed wi.h l)i:|('i\' riluhonst, and ap-
proaehing me, he said: ‘Ely d. .u- nieee, your mother has
rel'used to kiss me, l>ut I am sure you will not he so un-
kind!” By the first [visit ptp’n's that reaehed them, they
latrned of the death of thit t'rit-nd on the night 01' their
singular dream.-—,‘.lns. Cuowtc‘s Niou'r Sun: 0-," NATURE.

511‘s 1) , of G , one night dreamed that she was
Walking about the washing-greens, when a figure aps
proaehed, whirh she reeoguim-d as that. of a beloved
brother who was at that time wita the British army in
America. It gradually faded away into a kind of anato-
my, holding; up its lltltttlri, through whirh the light could
be perceived, and asking clothes to dress a body for the
grave. The dream recurred more than onee the same
night, and, apprehending some misfortune, Miss D
noted down the date 01‘ the out-urt'e'a-e. In due course, of
post, the news arrived that thia brother had been killed
at; the battle Ot'Buuker Hid—Inn».

A farmer, in Wort-esters]tire, dreamed that. his little boy,
of twelve years old, had fallen from the wagon and was
killed. The dream recurred three times in one night;
but. unwilling to yield to superstitious t'ears‘ he allowed
the child to accompany the wag-otter to Kiddermiaster
fair. The driver was very loud or the boy, and he felt
assured would take eare of him; but haviut,r occasion to
leave a. parrel, the man liade, the child walk on with the
wagon, and he would meet him at a certain spot. ()n
arrivng there, the horses were. coming quietly t'orward,
but the boy was not, with them; and, on rettaeiug the
road, the boy was found dead, havingr apparently fallen
from the shafts, and been crushed by the \\'llt‘('l\‘.—1]:l[),

'l‘wo friends arrived at Megan-a, and lodged in different
places. 0ndI of the two was scarcely usleep‘ when he
dreamed that his companion announeed to him, with a
melancholy air, that his host had formed a project to
assassinate him, and entreatud him to come as quickly as

 

 

10 THE ROMANCE or DREAMS.

possible to his succor. Upon this he awoke, but, con;
vineed it was only a dream, he went to sleep again. A
second time his friend appeared, and C0njured him to
hurry, as his murderers wore, about to enter. Much dis-
turbed, he was amazed at the recurrence of his dream,
and prepared to go to his Mend; but reason and fatigue
gained the mastery, and he returned to bed. Ills friend
then appeared the third time, pale, l,>leeding, disfigured.
“VVretch,” 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 fl‘icnd.—-—-HALLUCINATIONS, me: In DE
Boxsxonr.

BATTLE. I,
To dream of battles, of armies marchifig in rank; of

weapons, fin'tzfzmtz'ons, and of (my thing partaz’nz’ny to
war, 2'3 an evil 813/27, 110 the loving, and to all save .vol‘
dabrs.-—An'rizmnonus.
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 l'p 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.
0 Caesar! these things are beyond all use,
And I do fear then).
——JULxus stan, ACT 20, Scan: ‘45.

BELLS RIXGING.
T 0 dream of the ringing of balls bank/ms grid, 40:-
m, and anxiety—Gnmmx DREAM Boon.

“ Is it not strange that as ye sung.
Seem’d in mine cars a death-peel rung,

 

BEAUTY.

Such as in nnnnories they toll
For some departing sister‘s soul?
Say, what may this portend?
l‘hen lirst the l’ulmor silence broke
The livclong‘ day he had not spoke),
‘ “ The death of a dear friend. ’
-W. Soon.

BEAUTY.

To dream of beauty is It most fiwm'able omen to those
who labor industriously, for it 21¢ the nature and spring
.of all life and activity. Aml this 129 a good sign not
only to traeelers, but to those who propose remaining
still, for it stirrelh up even the indolent and unwilling
to activity]. So Venus Anrld‘I/mnene, rz'xz‘nf] from the
ocean, 219 ominous to sailors of storm and shipwreck, get
nevertheless preserves their lirm, and brings to a fortu-
nate conclusion labors and negotiations which have
swzned hopeless and temperato.~—Anrmt;bonus.

To dream of szqwmalural beauty 4: sign of death.—
THE. SYBIL.

Constantine, while sleeping in Byzanthun, dreamed that
the tntelar guardian of the city, a. Venerable matron, sink-
ing under the weight of yours and infinnities, was suddenly
transformed into a. bloomng maiden, whom his own hands
adorned with all the symbols of imperial greutmss. The
subsequent splendors of the western capital signally veri-
fied the VlSlOIl.——D1{EA.\(SZ mt CHARLES A. Mum'sm.

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, repented this Line from Homer: “On the
third day you‘ll reach the fruitnt I’thiat." Ant} It fell out
precisely as he had foretold—Inn).

“Was then my dream a shadowy lie ?
Toil on, sad heart, couraweous y,
And thou shalt lind thy room to b.
A noonday light and torch to thee."

 

 

THE ROMANCE’OF‘ DREAMS.

BIRDS—SING ING—SWANS.

To dream that you hear bian singing, indo'mlcs that
you will soon [war plwzsrmt norm—[Ms REICIUIALTIGE
'l‘uAUMBUCIL

Tod/"(run of bamhful mild/o Sin/(m, pmwf/m (wealth;
but to hear them sing, is a sign of (Zz.'zt(/L.—\'AN GERS‘
TENBIQIHZK.

Socrates dromnod that ho hold on his knees a young
(rvgncuyoung swan), which on a. sudden hvmmo full-{lodged
and fl'lw up singingr 1mm, swm-Hy. The next day Pluto
was phich llllticl‘ his tuiiinn, whun he said: “This is the
bird.” And the gohh‘n—Inngua-d philosoplu‘r, when about.
to die, dronnwl that he had i)(',('()lll(3 a swan and went
from (rm- to Il't‘f‘.—i)l{lfl,\.‘.m' m‘ 0an15 A HUNGER.

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imlml to Mom: of on? ((12; but (/10 Izousc—pzyoon t0 honest
maiden” aml '7/Lrbt)'()12,8'.

To dream If (I, 10/1 in; (Zora (done and soaring prcsagos
the deal/L (few/1w 01w b(:luz‘c‘tl.—TIIE Symn.

I dreamed that a gray old man stood before me, with a
lwunlil'nl white dove [JUI't'iH'd ulmn his head. As I looked,
the bird look flight, and I started up from sleep, exclaim-
ing: “The boy is dead!” In a few hours my beautiful
boy was dcad.—LITTER ’1‘0 AUTHOR.

 

 

BLIND—BOAR. 18

BLIND.

To dream of being blind is n; token that you trust in
.m enemy. To dream of swing a blind person, denotes
(hat you will learn something desirable—THE SYBIL.

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 horn blind. “You do not know,
then,” said she, “ what is light, which is so beautiful and
agreeable; 'nor the sun, which has so much hrillianey 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 he of marvellous splendor.”
The blind man seemed then to change both his voice and
countenance, and, assuming,r an air of authority, said:
“My example should teach you that wonderful things,
which escape our sight, are no less true iwr dosirahle he-
eause we are unable to comprehend thern."-—Cners-v’cm
Vim DE Bossum.

DO A IL

You will be betrayed, jm'xevutcd, and pursued.an t
MAN DREAM—BOOK.

So on a day he laid him doune m sleepe,

And so betel that, in his slope he thought,
That in a forest fast he walk’d to wepe,

For love of her that him these (mines 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 dunes heat.

And by this bore, fast in her nrmes fold,
Lily kissing aye his lady, bright Creseide,

For sorrow of which, "when he gun it behold,
And for despite, out of his sleope he hreide.

“- And loud he cried on l’andarus, and seide,
O, I’andzu'us, now know I, crop and met,

I nsm but dead, tnera nis none other boot.”

“Canon.

 

THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS.

BOAT—“’ATER.

To dream that you. are floating ozscr the water in a
boat is a good omen, particularly If you are in love.
But it is wry unpropo'tz’ous should you dream, of being

' done, or that the but up3(’[‘.~2.———GEIL\L\N DREAM Boon.

Drop mater (anwm tl'()II/)[(3.-—.lli::~l. Unowu.

To dream of «t tranquil, glassy lay/cc, presagm joy and
contcnt.—An’rmunonus.

“I fancied a scone where not a true or hill was in sight;
but only a. flat, grassy plain, through which ran a narrow,
deep, and sluggish stroam toward its outlet—a small lake
two or three miles away. ; bout a milo from where I
Htood, by this mystic river, and in tho direction of the lake,
{row a single clump of willows, the only shruhbory in the
imdscapc. A monn-ut I gim‘d to comprohcnd the scene,
Ind thou its nmaning bs-uame appan-nt. A little boat was
noon-d at my foot. Myst-If, that is my body, appvai‘ing
,‘ust as I look to myst-ll' in the mirror, and (lrvs‘sctl in its
Justomary habiliiuwnts, the hair in ringlcts. not at. all satu-
Ir'atcd by tho watt-r7 laid lloiting upon the surface of the
stream. 1, that is my otlwr scll', standng 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 tloat onward to the silcnt lake beyond. I
became troubled, and stt-ppod nvaror to tho margin of the
stream, to touch the ilmnm'alilc body with my feet; and,
as I did so, I dist-ovmw-d that in my arms I was Carrying
the body of u. littlc (load balm, which it was my duty to
cast into the stream in such a mannor that it would be
hot-no out. to tho soa lwyond. I li-arcd to make the Von.
tm-o‘ howvvvl" bvin},r approhunsiyo that it might sink t/Icre
whon it Kiln/[Id sin/c only in tlux lake. It svvmcd to be the

1 coming on ()ftwilijflli, and I Would not. debate, the chances
any longer; so 1 loosed the boat from its moorings, and
Joppml into it, with my charge, resolved to glide down
the sluggish current to the lalu‘, which received its waters
and whatever was cast into them, and there drop the babe
beneath the wavcs myst-ll'. li'iying it in my lap, I tried to
hastou my voyage with the occasional hc‘p of an oar; but
as I pasle my body, lyingr so still at. tho wator’s edge, I
became possessed of an anxious fear, that should it rewh

 

 

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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 wakirg 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 our of a hon purpose, I shall yet reach the
sea ofpmce, where, are to lie buried the ‘(lead babe’ of my
unhappy love, and the coal-off body of my former egotism
and selfishness. The willows of a vain regret shall not
delay the burial. Though lest in the gloom of grief. I
shall not falter in my purpose.”-—Mas. Barnum.

BREAD.
To dream of seeing loa cos of bread denotes plenty and
tucccss in lore—DREAM BOOK.

A lady, not long since, related tome the following circum-
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 her loss,
as she re-entered her own door she met a respectable look~
ing young man carrying some leaves of bread. On ex-
pressing her astonishment at tinding a stranger there at so
unseasonable in 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, I think, two years had
elapsed before she met him again. This second meeting
led to an acquaintance. which terminated in 111arriage.-—-
Mas. Caowa‘s Niour SIDE or NATURE.

 

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BLOOD.

To dream of collecting blood betokcns gold and 3116068;
in love. To see blood running pi'cxagcs death.——-GER-
KAN DREAM—BOOK.

Calphurnia here, my wife, stays me at home:

She dreamt to-night she saw my statue,

Which like a fountain, with a hundred spouts,

Did ruu 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 today.
wJULIUS. OIESAR, ACT 21), SCENE 2D.

BROTHER.

To dream of a dead brother is ominous of migfortum
¢ UTEMIDORUS.

Beside that couch his brother's form,
Lord Edmund seem'd to stand,
Such and so pale as when in death,
He grasp‘d lHS brother’s hand.
lle started up, each limb conirulscd
\Vith agonizmg t'ear;
He only heard the storm 0fnigl1t——-
"1‘was music to his ear.
When lo! the voice of loud alarm
His inmost soul nppalls;
“ \Vhat ho ! Lord William, rise in haste!
The water saps thy walls!”
llc rose in haste; beneath the walls
lle saw the tlood appear;
[t hemm'd him round ; ’twas midnight now;
No human aid was near.
(—SOUTHEY.

CHANGE—MUTATION.

Changing and mrz'wl (Iran/m are of good 0mm, espo-
u’ally to women, «ml to {/1 I‘ulz'a's.

I once dreamed, when a young girl, a dream of three
nights’ duration, quite continuous and consecutivm which
divided my life, hf an allegory, into tour parts—the last a
’piere conclusion, Very brief. The tit-st night, I walked in

 

CIIILDREN—CIIIMES. 17

§

the woods, in June, with a young person at my side: and
was very happy. ,The next night, I was a fugitive, hiding
in all out of the way places from this same person. 0n
the third night, I stood alone in a country covered with
ice, with a frozen river in the midst of it. thinltinfjr I 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 truc.—B***’Z

CHILDREN.

A dream of 97wlanclmlg/ 0mm, generally foreboding
sickness. Children, running about a, house, bate/sen
donwstic troublU.—POETRY AND MYSTERY 0F DREAMS.

A young unmarried lady of his acquaintance has a most
pertinacious dream about a child which she is forced 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 recurrng in the young,r
lady’s dreams, has sometimes so worried her, that she has
felt quite tired by day from watchng' the child through
its perils in the night—A I’nrsu'ias’s Darinis.

Jane Eyre,Jn;~‘t beiore her false marriage with Rochester
was to have been consummated, has this dream of the
“grief-child;” and it is mentioned by several authors as
having the same signification.

CllIMI‘LQ.

To drcmn‘qf the ringing of balls Zia/ukch grief, sor-
row, and em/u'ty.—Gmum}: D1n~:.m~Boon.

I was, many years ago, sleeping at an old-fashioned inn,
at a small town on the Rhine. In the. middle of the dark
night, I was half-avalu‘nvd by what seenn-d to me a small
chime of bells, just such as a musical clock, of the old for-
eign make, might be supposed tojangle forth to mark the
hour. Coincidently with this s und, the thought of a
friend whom I had sent olf to Mm eira, hopefully, for the
benefit of a milder climate, rushed into my mind, an? I

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18 THE Roman or Datum.

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 parcon, and questioned him as to the existence ot
a chiming;r clock in any contiguous apartment. Not only
was there no chiming eleck 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 3 china-
of bells, and by my connectng the circumstance with the
illness ofmy lrieud in Madeira, that I marked down in my
poeket-bvok the date of the occurrence, and of my uncorr-
fortable feeling about Richmond. The exact hour when l
seemed to hear the small ghostly chime, was, of COHI>(‘,
not precisely known to me, but by the complete darkness
of the room, the season being early September, I guesu'q
that the thing had taken place before four o’clock. A
fortnight or three weeks later, I rceei‘cd a letter from a
brother of Richmond, announcing to me my friend's demll
at Madeira on the night which I had voted down in my
pocket-book; hour not mentioned. Perhaps a year after
this, I handed down to dinm r, and Sat neYt to, the widow
of Richmond, who was on a visit (in London) to this
brother of her late husband. I converscd with her abcu'
her husband‘s illness and death. He had been better On
first arriving at Funchal, and his death had come on snd~
denlv. After I had mentioned my fancy of the chimes,
and the singular impression connected with that fame)"
Mrs. Richmond said: "This is most remarkablel On the
night he died, he was worried, as he had been several times
before, by the chimes of a town clock, which jargled out
a wretched tune, every hour, from a belfry not far from
our house. I myself, was war‘icd on his aecdnnt, bv those
chimes; and I shall always emnect a painful idea with
chimes of every kind, for the bells were actually ringing
at the very moment. when my dear husband breathed hi!
last in my arms."-~ A home. u’s paras.

 

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CLIMBING—LADDER.

To an a ladder, signifies that the dreamer wall travel.
To climb one. presuges rank and dignity. T 0 dream of
falling from a ladder, forebodcs sorrow and destruction
-——VAN GENTENBERGK.

Queen Anne Well, my on.
Roe/Jon! ( thought that you and I, for years and years,
Had cliinb'd the rundlos of a slip )ery ladder.
I knew not why we clnniher'd; t iuugh above
A blazing halo, like :1 sunset sky,
Shone glorious, and towqu it we bent our steps,
Urged by resnstless impulse. You were first;
And when l halted, by the labor tired,
0r dizzy at the awful dep’th beneath,
You cheer'd me on, and with your nimble feet
Bpurn’d the frail rounds, till, sunder'd ’neuth
your tread,
They fell around me. \Vocful, woeful sight!
Each strek in falling, to n. ghastly head
Wus inletmnorphosed. llcrc Queen Kutharine’s
fel :
There Wolsey's; More’s and Fisher‘s, spouting
blood 2
And many 0. one whose face I could not catch.
These, as they pnss'd inc, whisper’d in mine
cars
A horrid curse, and grinn’d, and wink’d their
eves.
Queen Ania, Good'hcuven, how awful! “'as there more 0!
this?
Ifoc/zford. Ay, far more dreadful fancies.
Aan BOLEYN : Bonn.

COMETS—FALLI NG-STARS.

To dream of these extraordinary ethereal substances,
is ominous of war, plague, funu'na, (mil death—DREAM-
BOOK.

To dream of the stars 18 the most favorable omen for
men-Asrlmnrsrcmcs.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen;

The heavens themselves hlzize forth the death of princes.
Juurs CESAR, ACT 21), Scam: 20.
On the 16th of August, 1769, Frederick IL, of Prussia,

 

20 THE ROMANCE 0F DREAMS.

(a said to have dreamed that a star fell from heaven and
OCeasioned such an extraordinary glare, that he could with
dillieulty find his way through it. Ile mentioned the dream
to his attendants. and it was afterwards observed that it
was on that day Napoleon was born—Mus. Cnown.

CROSS.

To dream of a crud/LI; denotes great good fortune--
VAN Kmxonmninu.

To dream of being marked with a 02-033, is a sign of
gray” and [om—THE SIBYL.

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 adwrsary was overthrown.—DREAMSz
nY (Inaumcs A. Momma.

“'hen King James came to England, at, the time of the
plague, he went, aeemnpanied by old (‘:nnl)den, into the
country, to \‘l>l(, Sir Robert Cotton. 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 hy prayer, and in the morning
related the Occurrence of the night to Sir Uamhden, who
assured the monarch it was only a dream, and begged him
not to be disturbed. The same, day the kin},r received :1
letter, annoum-ing the death of his son by the plague.-
Dmmnoxv‘s \Vonxs, 1). 22-1.

CRYING OUT.

To dream that you hear any one crying out for aid,
denotes that the person dreamed of 2's in imminent dan-
gar —1)()I£TRY AND MYSTERY or DREAMS.

Should you [war a wire distizmtly after any thing in
a dream, give hood to what you haw heard, for it will
become trué.—Tun SIBYL.

Hamilcar, the Carthaginian general, when besieging
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him that he should sup the succeedng day in that city.
When the morning dawned, a great sedition arme between
the Carthaginian and Sicilian soldiers. The Syracthans,
being advertised of this, sallied out. attacked the camp
suddenly, took Ilamilear prisoner—and thus his dream was
fullllled.-—-DREAMSI nr (7111\nin A. HUNGER.

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—Mus. Cnown.

lel'll).

To dream of seeing (7w {/0d of hp”, either in person,
or in pictures or datum, 2's a wry from-able omen for
lovers. But the drmm 72% most fitnomblo when you 866
him in white marble, for t/u'x denotes purity and con-
fitwwg; in low—VAN KLixurlemnu.

I thought this heart enliiudled lay
0n 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 we before the sun;
Till both it glow congenlal felt.
And melted into one! .—Moom;_

DE l’A RTI‘ID.

To dream of the departed or dead, 22? a sign indicative
of neither good or bad, 2f [7103/ run-ass no emotion. If
they appear angry, it is an evil omen ,' but 2f pleasant .
and afable, you may anticipate great good fortune.-
ARTEMIDORUS.

A young lady, a native of Ross shire, in Scotland, was
dovotedly attached to an officer, then with Sir John Moore

in the Spanish war. The constant danger to which he was
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)2 THE ROMANCE or 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 dream
were fatal to the poor girl, who died a few days aftcnvard,
desiring her parents to note down the date of her. dream,
which she was confident would be confirmed. It was so.
The news shortly 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.——Puttos-
ornY or SLEEP.

A reappearance is mentioned in the biography of Wil-
liam Smellie, author of “ Philosophy of Natural History.”
Intimater acquainted with the Rev. 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. Grecnlaw 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,r that he was now in another and
a better world, from which he had found great difficulty in
communicating 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 ot'existenee.”

I awoke from a dream—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—heighol
. . . . . I do 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 all sleep has like visions—BYRON’I
JOURNAL.

 

DROW'NL‘TG—ENTERTAINMENTS.

DROWNING.

To dream of drowning alone, pros/ages the acquisition
of money or properly ; but If drmmml by another per-
sm, 2'!) is ominous of loss or min.-—Vo.\' Gigi-.s'rmxmcuox.

A gentleman, who resided near one of the Scottish lakes,
dreamed that he saw a number of persons surrounding a
body which had just been drawn out of true water. ()n
app! aaehing the spot, he perceived that it was himself, and
that the assistants were his own friends and retainers.
Alarmed at the life-like reality of the vision, he resolved
to elude the threatened destiny by never venturingr on the
lake again. On one occasion, however, it became quite in-
dispensable that he should do so; and, as the day was
quite calm, he yielded to the necessity, on condition that
he should be put ashore at once on the opposite side,
while the 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
arrived safely at the rendezvous, the gentlemen laughing at
the superstition of their companion, while he stood smiling
0n 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 beneath his feet,
and 1ti was extinct before he could be rescued—Mas.
Users.

0 Lord! methought what pain it was to drown!

What dreadful noise of water in mine ears!

What sights of ugly death within mine eyes!
——K1NG RICHARD III.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

To dream that you are called to feast: or enfertaz'm '
manta, presoqes unetpvcz‘c/l good fortune and success 3'!
your undertakings—VON GERSTENBERGK.

The vast and magnificent banqueting-room

Was of marble, Egyptian in form and in gloom;

And around, wild and dark as a deu'ion's dread thought,
~WKStrange shapes, full of terror, vet beauty, were wrought

The inefi'able sorrow that dwells in the face

0! the Sphinx wore a soft and mysterious grace.

 

24 THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS.

Dim, even amid the full flood oflight, ponr’d
From a thousand high clustering lamps on the board;
Those lamps—each a serpent ol' jen’els and gold,
That seein‘d to hiss forth the tieree llame as it roll'd,
Back llash’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:r the robes of the revelers seein‘d.
— ———Mi:s. 030.001).
I dreain'd last night we met at hoard,
And eat together, frank and free;
Igave him bread, l gave him salt,
And he pour’d red w1ne out for me—
The man that sees the sun in sleep,
Should never wake to clouds and showers.
- C. G. LELAND.

FIRMAMENT—CLOI'DS.

To dream of 1075 ~ife rlmuls prewges happa'ness. T0 see
them, rising to the heavens, indicates a journey to those
who are at home, or (a speedy relm'n to these who are

away .' and a knowledge of he'd/Zen, things to all. Cobb
ea or tam/2y clouds beta/ten, z'lzfifnrhme ; misty 0r f0,qu
clouds are a Sign of (um’e/g and trouble, while black

ones denote 1‘07chsz and ,fmable—Airmanmoans.
Strange appearances of the heavens, seen in a dream,
beta/ten public: evils.

I looked up to heaven, and saw a sea-dogr sailing in the
air.‘ \Vhen he had passed, the clouds descended toward
me, and my eyes contemplated the most Varied objects.
The house of (led was in the midst, surrounded with a
clear blue cloud, and resplendent with colors unknown
upon the earth. In every color wore thousands ol'nieu whose
rohes were tinted with the same hue: all their faces
turned toward the habitation of the Most High. A charm-
ing woman dressed in dazzling:r clothes, with a crown upon
her head, came out. She was :weompunied by three an-
gels, one on the right, the other on the. left, and another
stood behind her; they pointed to a crown that refle -‘
the most brilliant COlOrS.—MAGASIN Psvcuomaiquxc.

 

FIRE.

MAmmL
“I dream‘d I saw u snmvy cloud
Saul like, :1 spirit n'm‘ tho hhlc:
1t mm am}, in its (-rmrsz‘, 1101' hmv’d;
What nn‘nnt the form of SlchI‘ hue?”
smcu.
“ A happy life ——:1 title proud,
A fortunu grand —u lnvcr true."
MAIDEN.
“ But ore m)"(:1mnl its course had run,
I! ('Ililllgt‘tl its hu-J ut‘snowy white,
And melting in thw setting sun,
chd 1n n guhl and cmnson hght !”

SEER.
“Tlmn'lt die at last a monrnf‘ul nun,
“I have I'cud thy fortune right."
——Vo.\' HALLBERG.

HIRE.

To (Zn-am of an ordinary fire, burning briskly upon
the heart/L, iv a _ womb/e 0mm for tlLr/SG who desire to

line huppzlg/ at home, but 40 [arr/a mmflaymn'on firm/([968
dire cal/unify. AIL arr/11M fro pon‘cmls death or disap-
poz‘ntmmt.——AnT'm IDORI'S.

To dream, of swing a (Ar/Iaml farrh in the hand? of
(mm/107' pvrxnn, fwvlmlcs cril. A torv/z, or fircbrand
burning by 2'z‘xr{f, seiquf/(‘ws a, reward ; 2f erh'ngzzILx/Lcd, it
indicates m-rcxt‘l;yju~t&uz.——\'<m GERS’I‘ENBERGK.

To see onc’s llama burning, is an crz'l mum to all,
and one bctulwm'ng dad/L to the omnw‘.—ARTEMIDORUS
{‘10er to my bvdshlo sho did stand,

Showing 1110 there a fil'cbrnnd;

She told me, Ion, as that dill spend

Sn drmv my life unto an end.

’I‘lxl'oe»«|\1:u'10I's were consumed of it:

Only runmin’tl 11 Mile bit,

Which Will be burnt up by—zmd-bg’ ;

Then, Juha, weep, for I must die.
—Hznmc:.

 

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Lord Hamleton dream’d in his dreams,
In Carrel, where he laye
His halle were all on fire,
His ludye slayne or dye.
Buske and boune, my merry men all,
Even and me ye with me,
no: I dream d that my halle was on fire,
My ladye slayne or dye.
He basket} and bouned him,
And like a worthe knight,
And when he sawe his hall burning,
His hmte was no dele light.
Rrrsox's Ascmxr Sexes : BALLAD or Cur. Cum.
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 uppeared whole, but was, in fact,
a great fireLrsnd; being, though still glowing, reduced to
a charred state: a very appropriate symbol of the gentle-
man’s worldly estate—Axes. 

FISH.
To catch many am great fish in dreams, says ARTE-

Mmonus, is a pleasant and lucrative omen to all save
those who exercise a sedentary habit, 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 hitten'two of her little boy’s
fingers. Immediately afteward a school-fellow of the
child’s injured those very two fingers by striking them
with a. hatchet—Mas. Citows’s NIGHT SIDE or NATURE.

FLOWERS.
g’?‘ To dream of flowers is a most auspicious omen-bu!
only i f they are in season.——Ait'rEMmonUs.

Flowers out of season portend death—ACHMET.

To dream of noses is a most unfavorable omen for
those who propose undertaking any flung requiring se-
crecy, and also for the sick. But to all others they
presage happiness—ARTEMIDORUS.

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FLOWERS. 27

DAF‘F‘ODILS presage good-fortune to shepherds, and to
all who are in trouble. But to the sick it 129 a mar/n of
dealh.-—ARTEMIDORUS.

To dream of I)AXSIES presrzges noble, constant, and
honorable love—GERMAN DREAM-BOOK.

To dream of IVY z'mlz'cates a variety of good-fortune.
If you seem to pull the Tine or pluck its lezwex, you will
enjoy continual good health, and make many new and
true f/‘Aends. To see ivy or be crowned with it, prcsages
feasts and erevelry, triumph and motor-1,!

JESSAMINE or JASMIN, seen in dreams, presuges the
fullest realization of a lover’s hopes.—GERMAN DREAM-
'Boox.

LILIES predict joy ; WATER-LILIES, danger from the
sea. Out of sermon, idle hopes.—-VON GERSTENBERGK.

To dream of MYRTLE is a most flworable Sign for
lovers, especially (0' ladies. And it is a good omen to
agrkulturalzlvts, since it is sacred both to Ceres and
Venue—Anrmnoonus.

King Habor dream'd a mystic dream
As he slept in tl‘e silent night,

And told it to his mother
In the early morning light.

“ I dream’d I rode in greenwood wild,
No other man was there;

There grew two roses round my am,
And both were young and full‘.

“ There grew two roses round my am,
And both Were fair and young;

The birds upon the linden bougli,
They praised the flowers and sung.”

And no one in King llahor’s hall
Could read the dream ui‘iglit,
Only his mother knew it well,
And worm tears dimin’d her sight.

“ Although thou fated art to Win
A maiden white and red,

Yet I run doom'd to wail and weep,
For my son Will soon be dead.

 

THE ROMANCE OF‘ DREAMS.

“ And if thou fated art to win
And wear thy fair young Wife,
Then 1 am (loom’d to wall 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 to
him, as he sat on a. mossy hank in a greenwood, and pre‘
senth 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
his dream was w-riliwl, for he had been presented with a.
little fairy, and its name was LILY.

As one enamor’d is nphorne in dream,

()‘er lily-paved lakes mid SilVC‘I‘ mist,

To wondrous musxc. --SIIELLEY.
FLYING.

To dream of flying pres/(yes both pleasure and peril.
T011211 in dreams betokens Gilli/lance.—NICEI’IIORUS.

The night before Caesar 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 'zmsh garmentx, brtokens according to the German
dream prophets, trawling, or a sudden change in afitz’rs.
To buy or make cloth m, presume festivity and merrt'ment.
To dream o teetering torn and dirty apparel, implies
alrtfe and quarrel. ’1',» be handsomely and becormz'ngly
dressed, t'xfitrorablo to your prosper/8 in. life, particularly
if the (lot/14‘s be mm. If the clothes be while, you will
sucrced in your first malaria/ulna, and prosper in love.
Bloc/c 1'8 71 Mucky, blue (Icnotcs happiness, yellow inclines
to good fortune, purple and scarlet are ominous of evil,
but crimson presagcs a good old age. 41 W3] 0f

 

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colors betoken a strange and eventful life. To dream of
wearing your usuat garments at the proper season of the
year, 129 fintzmute, and indtcates a continuance of good
health—POETRY AND MYSTERY on DREAMS.

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 the room, clothed in my finest
dress coat, I set about addressing; her in the most flatter-
ing,r matter, when, on throwinga complacent look upon my
costurrie, I perceived that I had forgotten my breeehesl
——Horr.\iAx’s STRANGE STORIES.

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;v.I mingle with the crowd,
beautifully dressed and sparkling with jewels, that is
clustering around the door of the saloon, when an aeeursed
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!"——Inin.

G EMS—JEWELRY.

To dream of gems, is (L mostfortnnate and favorable
omen. But to lose them, forebodes end—POETRY 014'
DRE/ms.

He who dreams of green gems (the EMERALD) will
become renowned, and meet with truth and fidelity.—
ACIIME'P.

PEARLS signzfz/ a torrent of f6a7'8.—-ASTRAMPSYCIIIUS

It is a favorable omen for a lady to dream of brace
lets, for she shalt obtain themt—An'rmrmoans.

Come, let me clasp them, dearest, on thine arms;
For these are of thus * worthy, and are named

In the foundation stigma; of the bright city,
\Vlnch Is to be for the immortal sari-(l,

I'heir last and blest abode; and such their hue,
The golden green of' paradisal plains

Which lie about ithonndlessly, and more
Intensely tinted With the burning beauty

 

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THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS

0f God’s eye, which alone doth light that lane,
Than our earth‘s cold grass garment with the suit
Take them, love;
There are no nobler earthly ornaments,
Than jeivels of the city of the saved.
. am

See these pearls, that long have slentt
These were tears by naiads . 3')
For the loss of Marinel.

I slept, and dreaming waiiuer’u in.
The hall of an enchanted palace,
And from some viewless hand I toll.

An enicraldliglited chalice.

I quatl"d from it the liquid light,

And instant to my charmed View,
Above, around me, evfirywhere

A thousand radiant fairies flew.

High in the center of :he dome,

A single lustrous diamond bum’d,
That to and fro swun'z; beaming theta,
And shed soft beauty through the air,

And all it touch'd Do glory turn’d-
Proud, carved coluiii is rose arcun ,

Of marble piirc aid white,
Engarlanded with costly gems,

That fill'd the hall with color’d light);
And fair as flowers the beings were
That floated here and there;

Deep eyes, whose looks were words ofw'.

And tunes like mllSlC 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 murniur'd : “ Be the Wlsh confen'd,

That dearest seems unto thy soul;
And dwelleth iii/lat t/zou dost deszre,
1n Part/i, or water, air orfire,

It shall be thine—the fairy fate
Doth on thy instant bidding wait.”
Mas. Osaoon

GOLD—TREASURE.

Ifyou dream of holding or handling gold, you will
obtain your last wish—ASTRAMPSYCHIUS.

 

exam. 8]

To dream of buried treasure 3'; called unlucky, get
has often been found indicative of good fortune—Tim
BIBYL.

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-41 request which the now proprietor uncivilly 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 open a.
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 something which looked like a pot-pourri.
On shaking out the contents, there lay at the bottom a
small ring, on which was engraven the name ofA'nna Von

Militz.

A friend of mine, Mr. Charles .Kirkpatrick Sharpe, has
some coins that were found in chctly the same manner.
The Child of a Mr. Christison, in whose house his father
was 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 curi0sity to have the place
dug up, and a cepper pot full of coins was fO'md.—-Mas.
Cnows’s NIGHT SIDE or NATURE.

GRAIN.

To dream you are in green fields 2's (5 fiworable omen ;
but to dream of seeing fields of ripe grain, and any
crerflure feeding upon it, beta/was death and loSS.——-TIIE
SIBYL.

A friend of mine, who has lost several children, says
thatjnst previous to the death of each, she has dreamed
of seeing one or two sheep feeding in a certain grain-field;
and she has come to regard the omen as a special token
to herself of the death of one of her family.—Aumos.

 

THE ROMANCE 0F DREAMS.

GROVES.

To dream of being among beautq’ful rural scenes, do
notes wealth and esteem, as well as happiness in love.—
THE SLBYL.

Some weeks ago, while at sea, I had a dream of being a!
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 bricx
buildings below; and there were greenhouses on the right
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 somewhat
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 Encolyptusl” This dream I told to my
sons, and to two ofmy 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. \Ve shall see my broth.
er’s house there!” And so we did. It stands exactly as
I saw it, only looking newer; but there, over the wall oi
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.—VVIL-
LIAM IIowm.

HORSER.

1V kite horses seen in (Ire/nus, are truly the apparitsz
of angels ; while black steeds are the z'tt-mnencd vzzeesen-
gel-s of cnit—AsrnAnrsrcines.

Both in sacred and profane literature, horses have ever
occupied an honorable place among symbols. The Bible
makes frequent mention of the h_orse———hi.~4 strength,‘iis
speed and beauty. “ llast thou giVen the horse strength?
hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? (lanst thou
make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his 1103-
trils is terrible. lle paweth in the valley and rejoieeth in
his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He
mocketh at fear and is not afi‘righted: neither turneth he

 

HORSES. 33

back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him;
the glittering spear and the shield. Ile saith among the
trumpets, ha! ha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the
thunder 0f the captains, and the shouting.” Swedenhorg

tells us that in the celestial arena, horses signify intelli-
genee. The northern nations of Europe have the belief
which is quoted ahove; a white palfrey meaning good,
and-a black hor>e, evil. But the appearance ofthe horse,
whether gentle or fractious, also influences the omen.

Sounds, too, had come in midnight blast

Of chargintr steeds, careering fast

Along Benl—iarrow's shingly side,

W'hicil mortal horsemen ne’er might ride:
Scorr.

And so he fell on sleepe, and halfe waking and halfe
sleeping, he saw come hy him two pall'reys, hoth faire
and white, the which heare a litter, therein lying a sick
knight. And when he was near the eros<e, he there abode
still, All this Sir Launeelot saw and beheld. for he slept not
verily, and he heard him Say: “Oh, sweete Lord, when Shall
this 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
heard it. With that, Sir Launeelot saw the candlestick, with
the fire-tapers, come before the cresse; but he could see
nobody that brought it. Also, there came a table of silver,
and the holy vessell of the Sangreall, the which Sir
Launeelot had seene before that time in King I‘etchour’s
house. And therewithal the sieke knight set him upright
and held up hoth his hands, and saide: “Faire, sweete
Lord, which is here within the holy vessel], take. heede to
me, that I may he 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 nialady.——-Roi\uxoi~z or Moms ‘
Au'ruvn.

A Seotrh servant, in the family of the author's brother-
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, whieh ran with such terrible speed, that
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34 Tim ROMANCE on DREAMS.

night previous to hearing of her mother’s death, she had
dreamed of coming toward her mother’s house, and seeing
through a llulf—Upvnctl window that, the furniture was piled
up in one corner of a room, as it for removal; and that a
black horse stood below the window, so that she was
ohliged to Rtand on tiptoc to see over him into the room.
The sign had nlnays horn of sorrowful omcu to her, and
had occurred in numerous instances.

HUNTING.
To (Imam of hunting, mm! all {hereunto pertaining, is
an eril 311/721, denoting trouble: and 80/‘1‘0w.-——ARTEMI-
nouns.

Mrs. K , a lady or family and fortune, in Yorkshire,
said to her son, one morning on descending to breakfast,
“ Ilenry, what are you going to do to-day?" “I am going
to hunt,” replied the young man. “I am very glad of it,”
she answered. “ 1 should not like you to go shooting, for
I dreamed last night that you did so, and were shot.”
The son tllh‘WOl't‘tl, gayly, that, he would take care not to
be shot‘ and the hunting-party rode. away; but in the mid-
dlc of the day tlwy returned, not having found any sport.
Mr. K, a visitor in the house, then proposed that they
should go out with their guns and try to find some wood-
rocks, “I will go with you," returned the young man,
“hut I must not shoot to—day, ninclt'; for my mother
dreamed last night that l was shot ; and although it is but
a dream, she would lie uneasy." They went, Mr. B. with
li gun, and Mr. l§A—-——— without. But shortly afterward
the beloved son was brought home dead: a charge from
tl: -gun of his companion had struck him in the eye, en-
t ed the brain, and killed him on the Spot—Mas. CROW].

“ I think," said Maiden Mar'orie,
“I hear a horn and houn 2”
“Yo wccl may hear the hound," he 
“ Ye wccl may hear the horn,
For I can hear the wild halloo
That t'rcichts the face 0’ morn!
“The Hunters fell 0’ Sillarwood

Hue packs full titty-three:

They hunt all day, they hunt all nioht.

They never how an ee;

 

 

LETTERS.

5‘ The Hunters fell 0‘ 8111:); wood
Hae steeds 'out bludo or tune:
Thev bear fivrt maidens t( a weird
here mercy there IS nine!

“ And tht-y will hap thy li‘y breisi
Till flesh fa's ali‘tho hatte—

Nor toll thy l'rores how Bl: t'jorie
To Sillarwood hath ganul

“The lied isistrew'd, Maid Marjorie.
\Vi’ brackcn and wi‘ hrixr,

And nc’m' will gray cook (lariun win;
For ant} that, slnmln-rs hart-w-

Ye have letlt‘tl thv littin starli—
lic rules the liL‘dlllnS ul l'cat l"

LETTER?“
To dream of rat-city'ng {diving is a sign 2f low; to
write them, of buai/uzss m’u‘w’t must be uric/HIM to. But
to get a blszmk-ctiytzd one is a Sign of gl't'rji—Jl‘uts: SYBIL.

In a morning dream I saw many letters brought to me
on a salvot‘, at breakfast. “no, aqua-hilly, a. very large
packnt, 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 itnpelh-d to say to Jane: “ Where is
the large packet: edged with black?" “Uh, sir," replied
Jane, “ I thought you would not like to rev black at break-
fast; but here it is." And Jane pl‘OilllU‘ll from her apron-
pocket the identical large luttut‘ I had dreamed oil—A.
Pnrswux’s DREAMS: ALL rut-z Ymn Roux».

Miss L , residing at Dallwith, dreamed that her
brother, who was ill, callvd her to his lwd>ido, and gave
her a letter, whirh lH‘ dosirod llt'l‘ to carry to tln-ir aunt”,
Mrs. l-l—-—‘ with lle l't‘qllt‘h‘i that Fllt‘ would “deliver it
to John.” (John was anothu‘ brother, who had (lied pro»
viously, and Mrs. H '- was at, that time ill.) llc athch
that. “ he himselfwas going: Ill/w- also, hat that Mrs. Il-__.
would go first.” Am-ordingly, Mi»: It went, in her
dream. With the lottor to Mrs. ll-—-, whom she found
dressed in white, and looking quite radiant and happy
She took the letter, saying she was going there directly,

 

 

 

36 TIIE ROMANCE or DREAMS.

and would deliver it. On the following morning Miss
L learned that hrr aunt had tiiwl during the night.
The brother dim] some little time. afterward.——Mus.
Cnowu‘s Niuu'r Sim: or NATURE.
.
LIGHT.
’

If one dreams that 716 Wilda/fly 3068 a great light J! 58/;
out in darkness, [to ’tl‘flo’ (Main-wily ain't-rod 2'7), all the
80.7w);th whit-h 1w may be at the time devising—-
Awrmnoonus.

In MM, living much fatigued with thinking, during
which I hatl (‘IILI aworetl to obtain some knowledge of my
soul, I slept. I was soon raier above the t‘t-ttors of rea-
son, and it appval'ml to me that I wax' in a dark room; on '
the left-hand shit: I saw a table, and on it a hotth! contain-
ing a liquid, \\'lllt',ll thus: addressed aw :. “ Dost thou wish
for honors and. riches?" I was stupeliod at hoaring these
words, I paw-(I up and downy ennlravoring to understand
what this COHI I HH'JUI. (la tho ring hantl appeared a slit
in the wall, through which shum- a. light, the brightness of
which made mt: forgot the. \‘ois-o and the liquid, and
channg tho (-urrtsnt of my thoazz‘htu, for I contemplath
things <Ill'llfl55ill‘2“ the power (if spm'vh. This light lasted
but an inutant. In .lwpair, I ruturnv-tl to the hottlo, which
I carriutl away with mo. Iwi<hral to ta<te the liquid it
contained. “'ith great exertion, I urn-orth it, but expo
ricnccd a somatic” oi‘ horror, and awoke. Still, my desire
to comprclwnd the nature 01‘ tlw soul remained. This
desire lasted for twont}'-tlirr'0 yuan“, that is to say, until
1633, when I had a vi<ion, (hiring which my own soul was
thihitcd to my astonisht-tl Fight. It was‘ a perfectly
homogont-ous light, composed of a. spiritual subatance,
crystalline and brilliant. It was shut up like a pea in its;
shell, and I heard a voit-o saying to me: “Here is what
thou sawvst thrtuig‘a a. chink in tho. wall!”

MONSTERS.
To (IN/ma of VIZ/'IINt’t.’/'8 and 0M” torrzfying sights
(other flit/IL lu'lv/lzfuuu'w), (Iv/Inks int/Ice'ncnt danger.
There is a remarkable druam l‘t‘liliOtI in MN. Crowe’s
“ Night Side of Nature,” where a mother secs all her family

 

MUSIC. 37

gathered in a room of her house, and a monster, of so
terrible and indescribable an appearanee that it could not
be named, enter, and with an uplit'ted ax strike down two
of her children, while it, thrmttenetl the others. In a short
time scarlet fever seized them all, and the ones she had
seen stricken down died, while the others recovered.

When the oholera broke out, in lh'i‘ll, in Berlin, all
Brandenburg was alarmed. A teacher dreamed that he
saw a monste' approach from the east, and when near,
spring to the right and the left, ft om which he concluded
that Brandenlmrg would escape. This conclusion wasjus~
tified in the CVL‘Ilt.———i)ltKA.\lS. nY CHARLES A. illlTNUI-LR.

Alexander the Great, sleeping by the side of his friend
Ptolomzeus, who was mortally wounded, dreamed that a
dragon, belonging to his mother, appeared before him,
bearing in its mouth a root whit-h proved a remedy. On
a search being instituted. the root was (list-orered; and
Ptolomzeus, and many other soldiers recovered by its use.
mlnm.

MUSIC-SINGING.

TVle hmrcfh music 2'21, dreams, shall receive a joyful
sumwozm—Aennia'r.

To drew/10f Int/ring singz’ny, (team’s (In: Confirma-
tz'on of prcs. But If the dreamer 2's t/Ic singer, it fore-
bodcs disappoint/umt.——YON GERSTEN BERUK.

It is related of Caesar, that while he was yet lingering
upon the hither bank of the Rubicon, in the early dawn, at
a. point not far distant from himseli', an apparition was de-
scried, 111 a sitting posture, and holding in its hand what
seemed to he a flute. This phantom was of unusual size,
and of beauty more, than human, so tar as its lineaments
could he descried in the early dawn. Others saw it as well
as he; both pastoral laborers, and some of the sentinel;
stationed at the passage of the river. These men taneied
even that a strain oi' musie issued t'roni this aerial tlute.
And some, both of the shepherds and the Roman soldiers,
who were bolder than the rest, :nl\'an.-etl towards the fig-
ure. Among this party, it happened there were, a few
Roman trumpeters. From one of these, the phantom,
'Q.

 

 

38 THE ROMANCE or DREAMS.

rising as they advanced nearer, suddenly caught a trumpe;
and blowingr through it a blast of superhuman strength,
plunged into the Rubicon, passed t) the other bank, and
disappeared in the dusky twilight (,t the dawn. Upon
which (hemr exclaimed: “ It is iilliLiZOd—tilc die is cast—-
let us l'ollow whither the guiding pertents of Heaven, and
the Inzliice of‘ our enemies alike Sl mmou us to go.”—Dl
QUINCEY’S Wim‘lxns.

0ft have I drenm'd of mnsit rare and fine,
The wedded melody of in e and voiee,
Divinest strains that mude my soul rejoice,
And woke its inner barium: ies divine.
—Sronmnn.

MURDER

To drvzm of committing mar/den presages wfcring
and 0ppl‘6881bll.—-REICIIIIALTlGlI'S TnAUM-BUCIL

“ And well," qnoth he, “ I know in truth
'l‘heir pangs must be extreme;—

‘Voe, woe, unutteruble wee,
‘Vho spill life's sacred stream!

For why? Al/et/zmq/lzt, (as: m'y/zt, I wrought
A murder w my dream!

“ One that had never done me wrong,
A feeble man and old:

I led him to n lonely field,
The moon shone clear and cold.

' Now here" said I, ‘thls man shall die!
And I will have hzs goldl’

“ Two bur-med blows thh t. ragged stick,
And one with a heavy stone,
One hurried gash with a. hasty knife‘
And then the deed was done.
There was nothing lying at my fCt‘t,
But lifeless flesh and hone.’
-—L‘a an: 01 Fan -

 

‘ PERFUMES—ROCKB.

PERFUMES.

To dream of perfumes, z'ndicufcs gram fortzma in
friemls‘th, mperially If the (Marx mom 1/) arixe around
you in tight ’L‘t'tj)v')l'8" as from (L reason—JOHANREH
PlleTORIUS.

Such delights,
As float to earth permitted visitauts!
\Vhen in some hour of solemn jubilee
The massive gates of Paradise are thrown
\Vide open: and forth come in fragments wild
Sweet echoes of unearthly melodies,
And odors snateh'd l'rom beds‘ol':unaranth,
And they that from the, crystal river of life
Spring up on freshen'd wings, mnhrosial gales!
——Renuuous Musxxa.

Lalla Rookh had had a dream the night before, which,
in spite of the impendng fate of poor llal’ed, made her
heart more than usually eheerl'ul during the morning, and
gave her cheeks all the lreshened animation of a flower
that the Bidmusk has just passed over. She fancied that
she was sailing on that Eastern Oman, where the sea-
gipsies, who live forever on the water, enJoy a perpetual
summer in Wandering from isle to isle, when she saw a.
small gilded hark approachng her. It. was like one of
these boats which the Maldivian islanders annually send
ndrilt, at the mercy of winds and waves, loaded with per-
fumes, flowers, and odoril'erous woods‘ as an offering to
the cpirit whom they call King of the Sea.—Mooau’s LALLA
Roonu.

ROCKS.

To dream of rnrl-x‘ yn'csrv/es danger and cruel suj‘er-
Fry—ID” RICICEHIAL'I{HE'S TRAL'M-BL'CII.

It is a remarkable fact that of all my family, there is
ne sister whose niisl'sn-tunes are always indieated tome
by dreams. She is not a dreamer hersellL—seldom ever
remembers any vision of the night: therefore npou mysel.
has always descended the impression ol‘ any ealamity im-
euding over her. I once had a terrible dream, in which
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40 THE ROMANCE or DREAMS.

end of a coach that was being driven furiously down a
rOeky puss :nnong mountains, while her still living body
was rudely thrown l'ronl sitle to side uguinst tho jutting and
pointed rot-ks, until it was horribly mutilated; untl all the
while 1 ('()lll(l only sermon with terror and agony, without.
the power to urrest the couch, or part the cords that held
her in her (lreutlt'ul position. Front the [HOHH‘IIL I awaken.
ed, I knew some uni'orst-t-n trouble nwuitetl her; but being
at u grout distance, I reti-uinml from mentioning it in my
letters. In two or three tnonthsl leurned'the interpreta-
tion of my drezun; for then commenced the most unlooked
for, cruel, and interminable trouble of' her life, and which
had nearly darkened all its brightness f0rever.—~AUT110R.

SAINT‘AGXEC’ EVE.

Stint Alan/’3’ Em 2'3 the 21st of Jmnmry, and it was
answer/y beh’rml that on, $73 (are any maiden, Muir/M know
in drowns one Mr husband tron/d be. Front an old
English (II'Cn/n—lnm/n, 7w [mu-n, that t/u's mm to be done
by ftm‘ing twvty-fwzr hours on pure spring water,
“tlwn {/0 (0 (ml, «ml mind you slay) n’lnu’, telling no
one of wit/(t 3/th urn fry/um or 2'! NW lmw/c (/16 . pell ,'
go 10 7‘63! on your 1th 55:33, wpcating these lines thra
times .'

‘Srtz'nt gig/m s In  friend {0 me,
In. f/H’ {If/7 I Irv/x of NIH' .'

11!! mo (in; nigh ,j/ lumt’nmd 8P0.
———l)()li'l‘ltY AND BIYS’I‘ICKY on DREAMS

Sudden a thought cumo, like a full-blown rose,
Flushing his brow; and in his pained heart
Mode purple riot; tlwn tloth he propose
_I .s,‘/‘I_’.’I({/rll}, thnt nznlte: the lwltlunl start.
“ A crni-l :nun :tml iutpuxns thou art:
Sweet liltifi’l lrt her puny, :nnl sleep. and dream,
.\l.me with ilt'l‘ guttii .m-pls. lint" upurt
From \rn-hml men iii-v llll‘t‘. (lo! 30'. ltlt‘f‘m
'l‘hou t':ill\'l not, surely. iv the sunw that thou dost seem.

V”

H

"t wn. mt ..nrm her, bv ul. saints i swear,”
Quoth l‘orphyro. “Hit, Inuy l ne'er find grace,
When my week voice shall whisper its last prayer;

If one 0"1101' 90ft. ringicts I displace,

 

SAILINGFSERPENTS.

01' look with rnman passion in her face;
900d Angela, believe me hy thcso tears,
Or I wiii, even in u nmnwnt's spur",
Awake with horrul shozlt my {twmnn‘s ours,
And beard thmn, though they be murv funng than wolves
or buurs.
* 9“ * * * * 'X- * * 'f
Her eyes were open, but she SH“ behold,
va with: nwnkv, t'we Vlsiun other slccp‘
There was it painful ("mung-y, that mgh expell'd
The hllssCfi (It 1101' (imam so pure, and deep,
At whichlt'nlr Mmh'hm: hvgzm to weep,
And moan forth \vitloss Words with many a sigh;
\Vhilc still her gaze on l’orphyro would kct-p;
Who knelt, with joined hands and piteous eye,
Feurmg to move or speak, she hmk’d so drounnngly.
-—Kl-;.-\'rs' Evu or ST. Amelia.

SAILING.

If you, (Irmm of sailing pleasantly (130779, the omen is
nag/My fizwrablc; but if in (I, xmrm, danger and grief
are at hand. A firm/t: is the '2I‘n7'xt pawbld dream. To
sail on [and iv [If], mid sign, and to dream (5f sailing far

away 1) ‘58u’f/C3 (lt’tlflL.-—;\tl'l‘I‘lMIDORUS.

“'0 are pnshmg from the land,
And mlmvn a lm't‘ly stream
Gently flouting -~i.<‘t :1 dream?
)‘03‘ the nursmun m'nr me sings,
Keeping time with snowy Wings.
~Aucn CAREY.
SIIIIPEN'I'S‘.

To drmm 0] 30277012 IR, forebodcs that you will be :2:
posed to brutal [if-naturefrom a mm), or tl'(’ll(‘]16r'I/‘f/‘()m
0 4007mm. Snakes mi’zng mm‘ {mix/mg, prcxagc szklrnms
or inzprzleommlnt. Kill/1.17 11mm, 1'.“ an omen cf ’l‘iflul‘g
and success. ——V0N Grznwrnx In: Rt ; K.

Trending on serpents, you will orcrcome yam cumulus
-— ASTRAMI’SYCIIIL'S.

For in my sleep I saw that do‘ve,
That gentle bn'd, whom thou (lost love,

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And callest by thy own daughter’s name-

Sir Leoline! I saw the some,

Fluttering, and uttering; fearful moan,

Among the green herbs in the forest alone.
* * -x- * * at al-

I went and pecr’d, and could descry
No cause for her (“stressful cry:
But, yet for her dour lady's sake
I s‘toop'd, methought, the bird to take.
“’hen lo ! I saw at bright green snake
(loil'd around its wings und neck '
Green :13 the herbs on which it eoueh’d,
Close by the dove's its head it crouch'd;
And with the dove it heuves and stirs,
Swelling its neck as she swells hers!
—Cowumoc‘s Cumsnnn.
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
'as bitten in the left breast by it serpent, and :1 deep and
severe lesion was soon manifested in the very spot; it was,
in fact, a curbnnele, that terminated fatally at the end of
five dzLyS.—RAT10NAL HISTORY or llALLUCINATlONS.

SPIRITS.
Spirits clad in white, pres/rye joy (ma extrema good
fortund.—G}<JRMAN DREAM-BOOK.

0h, idol of my dreams! whate’er
Thy nature be—humzm, divine,

0r but half-heuvenly—still too fair,
Too heavenly to be ever mine!

\Vonderful Spirit, who (lost make
Slumber so lovely that it seems

No longer life to live awake,
Since heaven itself descends in dreamt.

Why do I ever lose thee! why—
\Vhen on thy realms and thee l gaze——
Still drops that vail, which I could die,
01:, gladly, but one hour to raise!
—Mooim’s Loves or run: ANGELS.

A profound slumber soon closed the eyelids of the
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woods, with the radiant goddess of the silver bow by his
side. All night long she seemed to be bending over him,
fannng him with her long white wings, and speaking in
tones of endearmenl, as with upturned countenance he
gazed with rapture upon her majestic loveliness. “And
why dost thou love me?‘y 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 l"—AH:LLi:s’ DREAM.

Simonides, having; met with the dead body, on the high-
way, 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, aml informed him
that, if he persisted in embarking on his voyage, he would
perish. This, warning indueed him to alter his mind, and
it appeared subsequently that the vessel was wrecked.—
CICEHO: Dr; Divix.

STARS.

To dream of stars 273 a most ftworablc omen for men.

-—ASTR.\MPSYHHI'S.

To dream of (/10 Nfl/I‘R is a, {/0an 0mm ; but to see
them taking shapes of animals or rqnilcs is an omen of
emf—TUE SUSYL.

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 l was compelled
to look upon it, though a sense of its ominous meaning
oppressed me, even in sleep. I) tells me that my starry
serpent is M , and perhaps this is true, thouin it is
ditlieult to think so while in his soeiety.—-—LETTERS or 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 line,
That all the world Wlll be In love With night,
And pay no worship to the gunin sun.

-ROMEO AND Jenn.

 

 

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STATU CS.

It is fortunate to dream of slatucs, especially zf Mop
be made of noble and easily qua/(vials. Statues expcca'ally
71707 to the great man of a (fly, and the appearance of
sur/L all/Lagos 2']? dream, sly/awry {hat great political emnts
will spmalflz] come to pass. Terror and daily/er 2's pre~
8a,ch by mmng slamm, (maria/y those of the godsr-o
ARTEMHXHH'S.

Decius. This (lroam is all amiss interpreted;
lt was a Vision, fair and fortunate:
Your slatuo spouting blood in many pipes,
In WllH'll so many sunliug Romans bathed,
Signilh-s, that from you great Rome shall suck
Reviving blood; and that great 1110)] shall press
For txncluros, stains, rclirs, and cognizance.
This hv (‘alphuruia's dream is signified.
ae ‘ -x- -x- 'X‘ » ~x- ‘ ~x- -x- at»
How foolish (lo your fears somn now, (lalphurma‘?
I am ashamed l (llIl )‘iohl lo lhcxu.
(live me my robe, for 1 will go.
——J(7I.IL‘S CAESAR.
This she Silill eaml straight the sapphire air
la: the palaco rosy grow, and gold;
Stalin-s pale, aurl pictures hcavoul)‘ fair,
Blush'd aml brcathcd, like forms of earthly moltl.
»—Mus. linuu'r‘r.

STORMS.

Storms prcsagc (halal-Dances, pcrilx, a ml (Instructionr.~-
ARTEMIDORUS.

A gentleman who had boon a short time visiting Edin-
burgh, was trouhlrd with a cough, which, though it occa-
iionurl him no alarm, he )‘vsolvml to go home to nurse.
()n the first, night, of his arrival ho (ll-rained that (mo-half
of the hoch was hlowu away. Ilia bailiff, “ho rosile at
a distance. (lrcainml the same (iH‘MII on the same night.
The gruth‘inan (“1'11 within a fow \VOL‘l\'H.—-BII\S. luowm’l
NIGHT SIDE or Nun uc.

0n a rude rock,
A rocl', mothonght, fast by a grove of firs,
Whose thrcady leaves to the low rustling gale.

 

TOMB.

Made a soft sound must like the distant ocean,
.I stuy‘d as though tlw hour of death were pass’d,
.And I were Sitting in the world of spirits—-
For all things St‘t‘lllt‘tl unroul! Thvrc I sates,
The dcws ii-ll clnnnny, and the night dvsccndod,
Black, sultry, close! and we the midnight hour,
A Sttll‘lll (,‘nllll! on, mingling,r all sounds of fear,
That woods, and sky, and nmuntnins, svmncd one havoc
»r~(‘t)1.l<lllll)tiE‘S 1153101153.
0 Cicero,
I have seen tomposts, when tlw St-ulding winds
IIuvc rim-d the knotty (mks; and l have seen
The :nnhitinns ucuztn swutl, nnd rage, and foam,
Tu bu cxultt'd to the ihrt-ut‘ning (’lUlltlS:
But nowr till tu-night, non-r till now,
Did I go thmngh a tempest tll'.)l‘pl{l“_{ tire.
Eifht‘r thcru is :1 civil striti- in llt'uYt‘ll;
()r vlst‘ lllt‘ Wurld, t'm smut-j; with the godsfiufl-x
Incenscs them to send dc>truutiun.
-—Jc1.11:s CESAR.

'f‘t’lNIli—(lllA \‘l‘lS—(‘tllt‘lslx.

To (Ur/1m If Inf/1‘7 HUM/1]] flu: (um/m If the great, (to
nolt's gum'l fur/Hm" .' full la mi UM {Wt/7) If (D friend, a.
10 am; one 1m! 2'12 :1 [/I'JH’, [x 41 Nil/u If (land/z, and [033.“
THE Snn'n

To 300 :1 man trend mrr graves,
I hold it nu good nun-k,

Ti.“ wicked in tin- sun and moon,
And had luck in thu dzu'k!

A Front-h Ct‘llilOIl):lIl‘ )lnnsit‘ur do V— , dreamed,
tunm )‘t-urs sinct', thnl lw saw it tmnh, on which he read
t't'ry distinctly, the t'ollov.in;;~ dutc—«L’Sid Juno, 184-; there
were, also, some initials, but, so much cllhurd that he could
not. make them out. He lllt‘nlltmt‘tl the (-irutunstztnce to
his wife; and fur some timc‘, thvy could not, help dreading
the recurrence of the ominons month; but 11st yourafter
Voar passed, and nothing huppont-d, thuy lmd ceased to
think of it‘ \i'lwn Ht last, the sytnlml was explained. On
the 2311 (if Juno, 18-16, tlwir only daughter died at. the
age of scwntwn.—3lns. men.

A man of business, in Glasgow, lately dreamed that he
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{6 “WWI ROMANCE 0F DREAMS.

with the date, of‘ his death. Some time afterward he was
summoned to attend the funeral of that person, who at, the
time of the drezuu, was in good health, and he was Struck
with surprise, on Seeing the plate of the coffin bearing the
very data he had seen in his (il'l!'.llll.—IBID. ‘

C!
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l

TREES.

To dream of flourishing, rigorous trees, prcsayes for.
mm; and happiness. But to see a tree lying upon t/w
ground, jive/wiles (lie/(pmz'lttmmzt in low.

’1?) (21mm of a BldliClFl‘ltEli, is an omen of peace and
prosper-fly.

To dream of (m OAK, pres/(gas grout wealth and a
long life.

To dream of a \VILLUW, is a Sign Qf grief to all saw
m(u‘z'lm's.——AIrrimnmmzs. "

The YEW-TREE 2's co taken of sudden death—~Thfi
8mm.

Vittoria. Methought. i walk“, about the mid of night,

Into a clulrclrvzml, where :1. goodly yew-tree

Sprch her huge root. in the, ground. Under that
vew,

As l-sut smllr, leaning: on a grave

Checker'd with cross-sticks, there. came stealing
in

Your (luchess nml my huslmmi; one of them

A pick—ax here, th' nther a rusty spade,

And in runin terms they ’gun to challenge me

About. this yew.

Brarhiano. That tree? I
Vittoria. This harmless few.

They tulil me my intent was to root up

That Well-known yew, and plant i' the stead ofif

A wither'il black-thurn; :mzl for that they vow’ci

To bury ln(‘. alive. MV huShuml straight

With pick-ax 'gnn to ig; and your (llichess fell

With shovelrmlike :L fury vnidcd out.

The earth, and scattcr'd bones; Lord, how, mo
thought,

I trembled, and yet for all this terror

I could not pray.

Mm (anda); No; the devil was in your dream.

 

UNKNOWN PERSONS. 47

Moria. When to my rescue there arose, methought,
A whirlwind, which let fall a messy arm
From that strong plant I
And both were struck dead by that sacred yew,
In that base shallow grave which was their due
A tree stood in the (Aldenwold,
\Vith many a bloomng bough,
And then I had a true love, once—-
“'here is my true love. now!
And when again I sought the tree,
Upon the ground it lay;
Another lover lteltl thy hand—
T/ze draw! had )ass'd away.
- ‘aon THE GERMAN: LELAND.

UNKNOWN PERSONS.
T 0 dream of conversing with unknown persons, pm
cages good fortune and guurtlo'tmsluyt.—'l‘1115 b'un'L.

“I remember,” says )l. Maury, in his illemm'r (p. 31),
“having dreamed eight times in one, mouth of a certain
person, whose identity, during that period, remained un—
changed, but whom I did not know, and who probably
existed only in my imagination And what is strange, ho
frequently eontinued aetions in a dream which had been
begun in another and former one.”—RA1'1ONAL HISTORY or
HALLUcmntox.

From the letter of a friend, 1 have made the following
extract: “I dreamed that I was stopping with an old lady
friend, in a pretty country village, ‘and that I Went to
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 Mondayl
receiVed awisit front a gentleman who was unknown to
me, but was a friend ofmy hostess. He came, he said, to
{.ommunicate to me the faet 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, I (19.
mnrved, but my friend promised for us both, and I dreamed
that we went. The young man‘s aunt, met as in an or-
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48 THE nouaxca on DREAMS.

to me, said: i‘ This, my dearest nephew, loves 3%110
cept him for your husband, and all this beautiful estate
which you 900 shall he yours, and you shall he happy. I
accepted at once, and felt very glad of my good fortune——
for the young man was handsome and noble. Afterward
I met this person, and innnediatcly recognized him, but
nothing ever came of our acquaintance.”

VOICES.

intevcr you, dream that you hear roices call out to
you, will prove truc.——ASTn.-\Mrsreums.

Grotius relates, that when M. do Saumaise was councillor
of the parliament at Dijon, a person, who knew not a not]
of Greek, brought him a paper on which was written some
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 eould. M. de Saumaise made out that the signi-
fication of the word: was: “ liegone! do you not see that.
death impends?” \Vithout eomprehending what danger
wa~1 predieted, the person o‘wyed the, mandate and (le-

parted. (in that night the house he had been lodging,r in
fell to the grouml.—)IR.<. (‘nown

Mrs. 9 related to me, that, residing in Rome in June,
1856, she dreamed, on the tinth of that month, that her
mother, who had lweu several years (had, appeared to her,
gave her a lock of hair, and said: “ lie es ,rially careful
of this lock of hair, my ehild, for it is you- father’s; and
the angels will carry him away from you to-miu‘row.”
The eti‘eet of this dream on Mrs. S ‘s spirits was such,
that, when she awoke, she experienea-d the greatest alarm.
and eaused a telegraphic notice to he instantly_dispatched
to England, where. her fathe ' wai, to inquire after his
health. No immediate answer was received; but, when it
did C(HIIO, it was to the. eil'ert. that her father had died that
warning at nine o'eloek. She afterward learned that, two
days before his death, he. had caused to he cut oit' a lock
of his hair, and handed to one, of his daughters, who was
unending on him, telling her it, was for her sister in Rome.
ER. D. OWEN’S Poor-mus ox THE BOUNDARY or Axiom”-

QRLD.

 

WALLS—WATch 49

\VALLS.

Walls denote strength and sent/my _' But a falling
wall, disaster and dwi/t.——’l‘nn SIBYL.

A maid-servant, who resided many years in a distin«
' guished family in Edinburgh, was repeatedly warned of
the amnronehing death of certain members of the family,
by (lreznning that one of the \\':tll‘l of the house. lltld fallen.
Shortly before the. head of the family sickened and (lied,
she said she dreamed the main wall of the house had full-
llen.—Mns. CRowE.

\VATCII—STOPI’ING.

A watch being a symbol of Time, to dream that one
stops is 027251st Qf(l¢’rl//1.—TIIE SIBYL.

One of the sons being indisposzed with a sore throat, a.
sister dreamed that tt wnteh, of eonsiderttltle value, which
she had borrowed front :1. friend, Intd stopped; that. she
lmd awakened nnother sis-tel“ and mentioned the circum-
stance, who answered that “something ntneh worse had
happened, for (‘lnu'lie‘s hrenth had stopped." She then
awoke itl extreme alarm, ntttl mentioned the dream to her
sister, who, to trutnlttillize her mind, arose and went to the
brother‘s room, wltere she found him asleep, and the
watch going. The next night the some. dretun recurred,
and the brother was again found asleep and the watch
going. ()n the following morning, however, this lznly was
writing a note in the dt':u\'ing_r~t'ootnv with the watch lresidc
her, when, on taking it up, she, pert-rived it had stopped;
and she wusjust on the point of ettlling her sister to 1nen~
tion the eiretnnstam-e, when she heard :1 seretttn frotn her
brother‘s room, and the si<ter rushed in with the tidings
that he hadjust expired.-Mr.s. Caown

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m ROMANCE 0F DRILL“

THE PHENOMENA OF DREAMS.“

WHAT is sleep?

\Vhat is the heating of the heart? What is breathing?
Sleep, like these, is a vital necessity, an act, or (to use the
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 lese 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
needt'ul rest—relaxation of the tired and stretched~0ut
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 pulsatcs equahly, and for the most part in a.
’manner undisturbed by the agitation of thought. A
medical man had opportunity, for a long time, of observ-
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. 'lhe whole subject is
wrapped in a mystery which seems to defy all explanation; yet, the
Current! in these mattern will desire to know what the philorIOpherl
think In regard to thp mysteries of sleep and dreams—hence we give

e

place to this admiral; sud deeply interesting paper. It will b0»!
used with avidity by the readers of this little book. (

 

 

THE PIIENOMEi'A or DREAMS. 51

observer saw that, in a waking state, the brain had intellb
gent, and, as one might say, telegraphic motions, corres
spondent with the thoughts which it was printing off.
The doctor, looking at the exposed brain, while the
patient was conversing, perceived that different cerebral
motions accompanied the dil‘l'ereut. ideas it was excited by.
He was looking manifestly at the great laboratory 0t
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 heat, with the heat of the artery.
Hence it follows, that in as far as the quietude oftl.e brain
is hindered, sleep is hindered in the same pmportion.
Thus, a mere mechanical quieting of the brain induces
sleep. I have read of sleepless men, who, to drown the
busy brain in a kind of artitieial apoplexy, have had them-
selves whirled about on a millstone, with their head inclin-
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. ()pium, and morphine,
counting to a. hundred (doubtful), hop-pillows, faneying
you see your own breath (Vt‘t‘y doubtful), (lraughts of
heavy drink at bedtime, gin, puneh, and other night—eaps,
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 and apopleetic. Yet, on the other hand, horrible,
perplexing, fatiguing dreams are, in themselves, a disease.

I am a great dreamer; and dreams make a Vast part of
the life of multitudes of mankind.

\Vhat, then, are dreams?

I would answer in brief: Dreams are a combination of
{imperfect sensation trill]. imperfrr't thong/it.

Mest of their phenomena seem to he brought about by
what a watchmak‘er 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,
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52 THE ROMANCE 0F DREAMS.

sympathizing, more or less, with the body, gets lazy with
the body’s sleep, and can no l()ilf,'ft‘1' eXet'eisc her functions
Clearly; yet still she makes a [hint struggle to exercise
them; continues to invent when she can no longer per-
ceive; executes her dauee though in manaeles (sometimes
glittering, Htunelimes gloomy ones); and even, when the
sleep is light and imperfect, endeavors to correct the errors '
01' her clouded perceptions.

“Does the mind always think ‘3" asks Locke; and, raslv
ly as it set-ms to me, concludes from our frequent non—re-
membrance of dreams, that the question should he resolved
in the negative. llut 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 Main: the, key turns in the door to the
closet to nhieh the mind has eonsigued her vagaries, and
we find, dulyr ticketed and laheled, a long and perhaps
strange. dream, whit-h, but for that toueh of kindtetl cit"
cumstanee, we should never have, l'emt‘lnlwretl. The
mind, then, may always think‘ thou}le its thinking may
not always lt‘:l\‘t: a durahle impression on the l)l':llll.

llut there are lN‘l'.~(lIl.\' who Ft‘ul't't'ly can he said to have
minds, and who non-1' think to any purpose. The, error
of philosophers is to judge all phenonn-na hy their own
philosophic (Unfit'itnlsnt'ss. “(‘ogito. ergo sum,” was the
dietum of a philompher. “ Non eog‘ito, ergo non sum,"
might he. the equally good l'l‘llSUIllllL' of a very dull man!
(.‘ould we take a peep at some shunhering mass of mor-
tality, whose brains are in his stomach, whose snore, imi—
tates the grunt ofa swine, we should deeidedly say, “The
mind does not always think.” Frqu Snell a one we should
have no right to expect dreams or dreamphenomena.
Dreams! he never 'dreams by night, simply be‘ause he
never thinks by day! But, I think I may assert, of those
who know they are alive‘ that there, is a vital conscious-
ness running through even dreamless slumher, which is
very (lill‘erent from the senselessness ol‘ a swoon.

l)r\aming is natural. Animals dream. The old dear
greyhound, T'ansit, in my paternal home, used to move
his legs on the rug by the fire as if he were coursing. My
little terrier faintly harks in his sleep, chasing, doubtless,
an imaginary cato—the only game he knows, poor town-
bred fellow.

 

THE PIXENOMENA OF DREAMS. 53

The phenomena of dreaming so puzzled an essayist on
Sleep, that he invented a theory ahout them, which he
declared coald 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 liy 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. Indigestion, to say nothing,r of
conscience, will .crcate hypoehondriae horrors to any
amount: a too full hlood throbbing through the brain will
people space with Visions, seemingly palpable, as those
that distressed Nicolai, the Berlin bookseller. Then since
animals dream, one might ark, “ \Vhat sort of spirits are
employed in suggesting dreams to dogs 2’“ and so knock

down the argument by an appeal to alisurdity.

As to the external nature of the pliantasmngoria of
dreams, we may, from the more 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 magic-lan-
tern of her puppet theater. The mind is a great conjuror.
Some have said that she is like (I. deululc-actioncd harp,
mid can play many chords at one and the same mo-
ment. (‘ertainly the dualityef the nerves and organs
of sense seem to indicate, a power in the mind of(at least)
a duplex action. The thought has lit‘Cll carried out in an
ingenious volume called “The lluality of the llrain." But,
the scenery of the soul is to) varied to he accounted for
by a mere douhle action. To trace her plicnmnena we
need that multiplicity of operation which her varied facul-
ties do really imply. Within her consciousness is com-
prised creat.ion——-nay, God himself, 0' all that we can con-
ceive of God. “'liat wonder, then, that the, mind can
people her own territory haunt herself, alarm herself, but, I
above all, amuse herself?

Not incompatible with repose are pleasing dreams when
life is just kept from stagnation by some small outlav of

.inventiou, some small exercise of the imaginative facuilty.
Thus, a vast proportion of the phenomena of dreams are
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51 me nonmcn or DREAMS.

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. This
consideration explains why dreams are mostly imperfect,
unconnectc«.l, and void of volition. They are lazily Cow

' ltructed. Most dreamers, Idouht 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 in a dream—the notes are few, and soon break
01? for some unimaginable reason. I imagine that a dream
ofsound is caust by an actual sound, which, at a. moment
ofimperfeet sleep, impresses the ear. I have, after hear-
ing mimic in a dream, heard, on waking, the sound which
manifestly prompted the dream: perhaps nothing more
musical than a street ery. Occasionally, the sound in the
dream, has been actually the sound out of the dream. I
remember dreaming that I was sitling by a lady, and con-
versing with her (I think that conversations are not audi-
bly carried on in dreams), when suddenly she began, to my
infinite consternation, to crow like a cock. I woke with
a. start, and became aware that a small hantam, in a yard
over which [at 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.
wit-h 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 suc-
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
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SLEEP AND ITS PHENOMENA.

create 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 have
sometimes known that I could see nothing of persons or
ijects, which yet [fancied \vere around me. Then by
'n eli'ort of momentary volition, I have torn open, as it
.vere my mental eyes, and had a strange burst of light,
and a brief I‘eVelation of objects, sometimes very beautiful.
I remember once dreaming I was climbing up he Aerop‘
olis of Athens-whieh I ll ::l never seen—in thi; sort of
mind-blimlness. Suddenly I reaehed the top, which I had
approached from landward, and suddenly the wondrous
dream-illnmination, so strong when it does come, revealed
to me the Archipelago, and all its islands, with a distinct»
ness which is even now vivid in my memory.

0n the whole, it may be averred that imperfect sonsatiox
is tlzcgrmt cause of dreams. Motions of the brain, mo
tions ofthe blood, craving, or (lerangements of the stomach,
various states of the fluids of the month, all bring with
them, and reproduce in sleep, the sensations and idea!
with which, in a waking state, they are associated.

It is a great and an interesting truth, which throws
prodigious light on the mysteries of sensation, that sensa.
iion has her invariable language; that even in sleep she
is consistent with hersdf; that even when she reads in a dis-
orderedbook, she herself is immutable. The last change
in sensation, let it be originated how it may, ewgenders 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 beeome most aware of the truth of the law
that regulates them l

From irregular motions of the brain, or too rapid paS<
sage oftlie blood (all the vital movements are quickencd 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 wh'O‘hnve not dreamt of flying
through the air; of falling from preeipices, 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 in a lively run by tumbling into a ditch—a. start-
Iing feeling which has immediately awakened them, the ex.

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56 THE ROMANCE 0F DREAMS.

of the brain, by the very quiel: slumber of boyhood
Many of these hot-blooded phenomena become less fre«
quent with advaneing years, and die out altogether with
oh age: proof additional, that physieal causes are nearly
paramount in producing dreams. The beginning of life,
too, is the era of those disorders which I onee saw thus
emphatically catalogued on a tombstone, that recorded
the death of three hahies:
“ Hooping-cough l Measles!
Small—pox! Uh! dire diseases!”

I know from experienee that, when such maladies are
hatching in the. body, the dreams, fora long time before-
hand, are terrible. There is a vastness of horror in tho
somnolent visions of childhood that is never matched at
any later period. ()ften, as a boy, I have felt myswlf
toiling on through some palpable obscure, through the
whole of whieh, inlinite spi lers‘ webs and infinite threads
from infinite looms were endlessly weaving about. [no—no,
not me, lmt about. some other identity into which Iwas
half converted. Then the peeuliar horror seemed to lie
in the very, very line spun-glass sort of texture of the
Wehs and threads whieh I had to draw thrOngh my enor-
mously swollen and puffy hands. Many, whom I have
questioned on the suli‘jeet, have told me that, in youth,
the dance of infinite distall's spinning infinite threads ahout
their distended hands, or highly enlarged heads, was an
amazing torment to them.

Crawling insects, slippery snakes, seratehing cats, are
dr‘am-forms of perturbed blood. l‘lven dream-hooks
prove this, for there is Seareely a dream of this kind,
which perhaps the vain individual thinks peeuliar to him-
Self, that is not interpreted for the benefit of the million,
‘ihus showing that. multitudes agree in their dreams. Pity
that the ingenuity of the dream-interpreter should be
wasted in explaining what a dream portends, not whence
it arises. Itlisfortunes can not he averted (nor does the
neer(;n!'mcer pretend they can) hy notingominous dreams;
but diseases possibly may. \Vhen dreams are very ugly,
very horrifying, the sufferer, instead of looking out for u.
fall in the stocks, or the treachery of a friend, should take
care of the stomach, and reform his diet accordingly.
Fuseli, it is said, Supped on raw pork (would not roast
pork have nullieed ‘3) before he painted the foul fiend.

 

HRS. Cnows’s TESTIMONY, mo. 57

Indigestion, both in its labor and its fatigue, is a prolific
hag-mother of' ugly dreams. So is any uneomtortahle
sensation, howew-r slight it may he; for, in the passive
state of rlt't'll, cli'ects are produced dtsproportiouate to
causes. I have sonwtinles dreamt of being stung by a
Serpent, or having?r my fingers held fight by the teeth of a
(log. 0n waking, I have invariably found some slight unu
easiness or pain in the, part which I li.i:l fancied so Stung
or s‘pn-ezi-d. Or perhaps I was lying with my arm or hand
pressed und 31' me.

Another consideration that shows dreams to be colOred
according to the sat.» ol‘ the stomach or head, is, that
frequently a horrid dream turns otl' by degrees into a
more, pleasant one.

Such dreams or rather series of dreams, represent, I
doubt not, the phases of sensation in many a sleeping
human being, who lives as we mo<t of us live, rather too
Well, with a “ru lis indigestaque moles" passing slowly at}
from our Well-nourished stomachs at about four of the
clerk in the morning. 'lllCl‘C is, first, horror; then,
nightmare; then, ell'ort and exertion, which overcome
nightmare; then, alleviation, relief, yet still doubt, and
what “"0rdsworth calls “ some perplexity ;" but, with the
dawn, and with the passing,r ot' 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. CRO\VE‘S TESTIMONY FAVORle A BELIEF
IN DREAMS.

As our friend, the Physician, is disposed to regard
Dreams as a mental phenomena accounted for upon well-
delined laws of mental action,—thus divesting the phe-
nomena of all its mysteuv as well as of all its credibility,
we must oll'er Mrs. Catharine Crowo’s testimony and opin-
ion pnr Contra, pl't‘llli.‘illg 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 umgrgan 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

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THE ROMANCE 0F DREAMS.

which we can not see without the aid of artificial appli.
ances, and many other things which we can not see even
With them; the atmosphere in which we live, for exam-
ple, although its weight and mechanical forces are the
subjects ofaccu ‘atc calculation, is entirely imperceptible to
but“ 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,
since, whether the apparitions are subjective, or objective,
that is, whether they are the mere phenomena. of disease,
or 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 difliculty 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 phenomena, I
will transcribe a passage from a letter of St. Augustine to
his friend Evadius (Epistola 159. Antwerp edition).

“ I 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 in a life after death.
i Now, God, doubtless, not willing that his soul should per-
ish, there appeared to him one night, in a dream, a radiam
youth of noble aspect, who bade him follow him; and as
Sennadius obeyed, they came to a city where, on the right
side, he heard a chorus of the most heavenly voices. As
he desired to know whence this divine hargmny proceed-
ed, the youth told him that what he heard were the songs
of the blessed; whereupon he awoke, and thought nv

 

mm. caown’s TESTIMONY, mo. 59

more of his dream than people usually do. On another
night, hmvever, behold! the youth appears to him again,
and asks him it he knows him; and Sennadius related to
him all the particulars of his former dream, which he well
remembered. "l‘hen,’ 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, 0 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 have a 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 excellent man, “was I con~
vineed, 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 s ‘areely reject—that I seek to explain those
perceptions which are not comprised within the functions
of our bodily organs. 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 (litlieulty of aeeounting for the partial and
capricious glimpses we get ot‘ 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-
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60 THE ROMANCE OF DREAMS.

To any one who has been fortunate enough to witness
one genuine case of clairvoyant-e, I think the conception
of this universal sense will not be ditlicult, 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 lil'e, our ordinary senses are so
constituted as to be unperceptive of these phenomena.
With respect to what we call the future, it is more ditlicult
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 with in re-
gard to the past. Ilow a spirit sees that which has not yet,
to our senses, taken place, seems certainly inexplicable.
Forcsecing it is not inexplicable: We foresee many things
by arguing on given premises, although, from our own
tinitc views, we are always liable to be mistaken. Louis
Lambert says: “Such events as are the product of huo
manity, and the result of its intelligence, have their own
-ause,s, in which they lie latent,just as our actions are
accomplished in our thoughts previous to any outward
demonstration of them; presentimcnts 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
can 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 it' 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‘

 

ans. cnown’s TESTIMONY, ETC. 61

mote approximation to any faculty of presentimcnt, I
know this is the ease with myself". I remember also a.
very curious etl'eet 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 either
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 re-
tain them in my memory, but I could not. I only knew
that the thing had Oren; 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;r to imply that these examples remove the dilli-
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 ot'apparitions by the theory ot'spectral illusions, they
are exactly in the same predicament. They -an supply
examples of similar phenomena; but how :t])t‘1‘s(., per-
fectly in his senses, should receive the spectral Visits of,
not only friends, but strangms, when he is thinking of no
such matter—or by what process, mental or optical, the
figures are conjured tip—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; it' 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 (‘hrist and the Apostles re-
proved all the superstitions of the age, these persuasions
are not. included in their rcprchcnsions.

 

 

62 m ROMANCE or 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. 0f na«
ture’s ordinary laws, We yet know but little; of their aba
errations and perturbations, still less. How should we,
when the world is a miracle and life a dream, of which we
know neither the beginning nor the end? We do not
even 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 witchcraft of the
seventeenth century. Many of the feats of the ancient
thaumaturgists and WOlltlcl'IWOI'liPl's‘ ot' 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
whicheonccrns 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 ourjournal-
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‘
periencc. Among the rest, Dr. Joseph Ennemoser, ofBerlin, ‘
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—during
the course of which he has had repeated opportunities of
investigating alL the phenomena, and of making himself
perfectly familiar with even the most rare and perplexing.

 

mm caown’s marmomr, ETC. 68

To 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 mystieal, but to bring the mysterious within
the bounds of science. The phenomena, as he justly says,
are as old as the human race. 'Anintal magnetism is no
new development, no new discovery. Inseparable from
life, although, like many other vital phenomena, so subtle
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 is only
now beginning to dawn on the civilized world, while its
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 anitnal magnetism, he will
first obtain some gleams of a light which will show him
that he is indeed tne ehild of (iod! and that, though a
dweller on the earth, and fallen, some trares 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 true 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
‘heulties are stimulated by disease, as in the ease of spec-
ttal illusions; and it. is true that imposture and folly 1n~
trude their unhalloived footsteps into this domain of Sci-
ence, as into that of all others: but. there is a 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 mest en.
nobling hopes for the future, and the mest valuable aid in
penetrating through the letter into the spirit of tho Scrip
tut-es.

 

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THE ROMANCE 0F DREAMS.

THE DICTIONARY 0F DREAMS.

The Mime: marked {has *, 7'72 the Lexicon, will be ound inn
torpretml 1' n the body of the book, wit/L an example 0 remarkm

()Ze coincidence.

ABRAHAM. To dream ofany
0f the putriurchs is a favor-
able omen, denoting in-
crease of riches and honors,
umiuble 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, presuges good for-
tune and happiness.

ABBOT. Long life.

ABUSE signifies that secret
enemies will tr)r to injure
you, in your dearest wishes,
and will succeed unless you
use caution.

ACTION. (lreut exertion de-
notes loss to the married;
success to lovers; happy
marriage to inuidens, and
recovery to the sick.

ASCENT to the skim, is a
good
they :ippenr bright.

ACHRNS presuge long life
t1ll1lptHVt‘l‘.

AUUUUNI‘S, receipts" hills,
('20., presume weullu zmd
increuw oi’ influence.

ADVl‘IRSAllY. 'l'onn-ethim,
denotes that you will over—
come obstacles to your hap-
piness, of whatever kind

omen, especially ii‘

 

thefarc, especially if you
are Conquered.

.1EULIAN llAltl’. Guardian-

ship of good spirits; fortune

an niuehjoy.

AU UH. lnconstzuicy offriends
or fortune.

AIR. A serene atmosphere
denotes good fortune; tur‘
bid and streaked with col-
31's, the reverse; and thick,
dork lair, denotes trouble
and disuppointment. Red
and fiery, good for lovers
~baid for a man with a
( uzu‘rel.

ALISA'I‘ROSS. *.

AIAIOXDS. Difficulties and
deceit in love; storms to
the sailor, :md ill-success to
trmlesmen.

ALONE. l-Ixultation and ha -
piness in your future lie,
with the favor of Heaven.

Ali.\l:~‘._(liviug ulms, signifies
to the married that dillicul-
ties will be overcome. T0
a maiden, it denotes deceit
and intrigue in her lover.

.Kli'l‘AlL Receiving the hol)r
sacrament at an ullur, is
ominous oi' misfortunes and
heavy dillieulties to the
aged; loss of love to the
young; distress in business

 

m DICTIONARY or 91mm OI

“the eommercinlmnn,snd ARCH. To us under “3
sickness or sudden death arch, signihes length of life,
to the mm of family. with varied and startling

ANCHOR. *. adventures of a. pleasing

ANGELS. "Z t4:rmir.ation.

iNGlllNG signifies trouble ARMS. If your arms appear
in obtaining your dosirvs, withered, it denotes ecav
whirhshullbe overcome by of fortune and health. it
perseverance. strong and lusty, success in

I SUE“. After this dream, be your undertakings, or male
careful whom you trust, for children.
some of your friends are ARROW. To find one is on
treacherous. To see another omen of death.
sngr , ma warn you to be ASP. Riches, and good luck
care ul 0 your business in love.
concerns—or if m: are on ASSES. These animals denok
a. journey, to ta e especial faithful servants, s tender
care of 'our health. sweetheart, and s flourish-

ANIMALé. Many kinds,herd- ing business. To drive
ing together, denote some one, indicates n usrrol.
direfui adventure. To see one heavily osded,

ANTS running about in con- is s sign of plenty end no-
fusion, denote loss in some cess.
enterprise for gain. Ifbus B
in storing their winterfoo ,
it is indicative of success‘ BACK. To dream of your
and plenty, and of happi- backbone is s lucky omen,
ness in marriage. If trod- denotinfiprosperfly. Sores
don upon, on have power- on the ack, Ire indicative
fnl secret gee. of enemies; a naked bsck,

ANTIQUITIES. The arrival of disgrace; s. strong one,
of a dear friend, or en un- of fortune, and s plenum
ex ectal discon‘r‘r. familv.

AN IL. SUi'cr-ss and nonor, BAlLlFl’b‘. To be arrested
in spite of Opposition sudi by one, denotes the escape
enmity. from s nenvy mfsfortune.

API’ARlTlONS. *. To a lover, the loss of his

APRICOTS. Peace, friend- sweetheart.

Ihip,and contentment, with BARN. When full, 3 sign of
ofiiuenee. good fortune. If empty, of

Il‘l'Lli‘b‘. Large andfnir,suc— sdversit . .
cessinlove. Sour—discord BASI‘J. hating ‘or drinking,
Ind defeat. For the schol- out of I basin, denotes that
at to dream of delicious on will soon full in lav“.
up les, pressgos progress f bri ht and now, your“
on honor. love wx I be fortunate.

LPES. Falsehood in your BATHING. An emfty both is
Iwoothenrt; duplicity in I bod omen; bu to be in

 

your friends; losses by law. _ one. if aim. is M

 

BATTLE. '.

BAY-TREE denotes riches
and honors, and is an omen
of rent good.

BEA 'TY. *.

BEAR. Vexation and perse-
cution from a false friend.
BEANS. Quarrels and vulgar

interference in your afl'airs.

BEARD. Fora man to dream
of having a long 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.

8 E011 - TREE. Peace and
' raspei Ity.

B AER. 1f clear, a sign of

good fortune; if turbid, of
misfortune.
BEES. At work is a lucky

omen, especiu’ll if under
your own roo . If they
sting you, you will be slan-
dered. It is a better dream
for the poor than the rich

man.

BEGGARS. To refuse slms
to a beggar denotes want
and miserv. To be beset
by them denotes calamity,
unless you have the power
to relieve their wants.

BEIIEAIHNG. To be behead-
ed is a sign of nobility; for
death by the ax belon s
only to those of gent e

~blood. To see one beheaded
denotes the rapid realiza-
tion of your wishes.

BEWILDERED. To be puz-
zled in a dream. is a sign of
good news.

 

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BIRDS. '

BLIND. *.

BLOWING. Tc blow a In
indicates anger in your low.
er. To the rich, losses; M

the poor, gains—in any use

of c Hinge of fortune.

BLOOD. .

150A lt. *.

BOAT. ‘.

BOOKS. A printed book is a
sign of honor; a blank book
of unity in love.

BOT ‘LE presages an hon.
orablc death if empty; long
life if full.

BOW. A bended bow, found
indicates a. pleasant and

I'OSFCI’OUS Journey.

B AC uLETS indicate wel-
come gifts from s {fiend
who is true.

BREAD. *.

BREEZE. Soft and I.(ontle, s
sign of happy [on , to sail-
ors a change of weather.

BREWING denotes troubb:
in your business, or itl:

our own familg.

BilIDE. Adorne , signifies
joy and happiness {or that

'Cill".

BIlIl)GE. Under s bridge,
bitter disappointment; over
it, good fortune.

BRIERS. I’ricked by them
trouble with enemies. To
see them without being
hurt by them, denotes tr!-
um h over enemies.

BRO K. Runningcxesrplou-
ureincoxn anywithf‘nendg
If it flow into your house.
it is a sign of wealth.

BROTHER. ‘.

BRO'I‘IL Gains in health as

wealth.

BUILDINGS. Empty builds
iugs, unhappiness in love.
with strange adventures.

 

 

THE DICTIONARY 0F DREAMS.

BULLS. To be pursued or
gored by one, an enemy ln

OWCT.

B TCllERS cutting up meat
is an ill omen. denotingr
lickness 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 hallipiness, and pros-

erity in ove and business.

C. IN. This is a had dresm,
denoting trenchenv and bru-
tality, or disobedient shilr
dren.

CANDLES, burning binght,
denote changes and dillicul-
ties; IfI.llL'_\' go out, loss.

CARDS. To hold the honors

‘ denotes riches and honors.
Diamonds denote quarrels,
hearts lm )piness, clubs
money, and spades hard-
shi )s and disgrace.

CAN {UTS denote prosperity,
thriving children, and suc-
cessful suit In love.

CASTLE. To dream of (1 cas-
tle timid groves or floods.
it behooveth him to look to
his bodily welfare; and if
he sees trophies or signs of
honor borne away from
these, it ortends the death
of noble zidies or a ise men.

C ATTLE. To feed cuttle is s
sign of prosperity : to drive
them, riches; fat cattle,
plenty; lean and hungry
cattle, adversi‘y.

CAVEKNS denote obscurity,
unless you muke greut ef-
ferts to rise from it.

CRANGINGDREAMS. ‘

 

fl

CHAINS are e si 0 mo-
inies; exceptin (we; then
it denotes happiness.

ClllCl’tltlle). llisuppoil meat
and VexMiou in low and
marriage

Cll lClil’l‘T} denote ill-luck in
You: most ardent. desires.

CHILDREN. *.

Clllll'lifl. '.

CllUbCH. To dream Monter-
ing .4 beautiful church is I
fort mate. omen.

Cl'l‘llis, A stirring city is a

ood omen for yourself and
g'iends; lu‘ c one empty and
desolate ureLJdes misfor-

tune.

CLIMBING. '.

CLOCK. One striking denotes
speedy good fortune; un-
less it strikes a lute hour 01
the day, which is ominous
of evil.

COACH. To ride in one. fore
tells poverty and disgrace.
or disup )otnttnents.

COALS, 1 block, are u bad
omen; if burning, a sign oi
fidelity; if burnt out, 01
deztth.

COl“I~'l.\'. An empty coflin,
good news; one with a
Corpse in, the death of a
friend; one closed up, long

life.

COMETS.‘*.

CORN. Fields of growing
corn, are un omen of suc-
cess, and safety in travel.

00MBle ll.-\llt denotes
that you will get. out 0‘
dillimzlty.

CRANES are 11 sign of quar-
rels nnd misfortunes, or at
the treachery of servants.

CRUCODl LE. This is an ONE!
of storms to sailors, in' ’13
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can-m ‘

CIIO WAC) po‘tend elevation
to dig. i ‘3' for men, and for~
cn'mte marr‘nge for maid-
ens. Crow n-pieces ofnion-
cy denote misfortune.

CI:i;"I‘ClI ES .ii a 1 Sign of the
failure ofy'm ‘ L‘Lpes, ifyou
are on them y'on'self; orif
a friend, the save will hap-

on to him.

Cl YING OUT. *

CUUUMBERS an ‘- sign of
good luck, mm] a" «fiery to
the sick. -

CUI’ID. ’.

CURRANT-A u u as. suc-
cess, 0011.76.13], and moods,
unless our ,( wash 2.

DAFFODI .5 mom-{n good
fortunet J v i v e in trouble;
but to Lie sick are a sign
ol'denth.

DAISY denotes noble, con-
stunt, :1 i1 ’ioucrable me.
DAIRY. 1‘) no at work in
one, is , sign of friendship
and 20’! ortnrie.
DANCIN 'r presnz: as
friends i: .3, and»
from s :Lnnss.
DANDE ION. To gather
them, 5 I. 53;“ of an thorny:
to see I. b-ul of tbtin, of
many 1 "1.93, Wloa. cv'otlv
Orv to nuuroyou. If'iii lové,
your vacahcurt is lulu o.

D \Nlll'. { thi‘r‘lnv‘lcs l ‘H‘dy
ndveu i.‘_-:s, with n h‘ppy

IBI “I ILL] III.

I} ARK w 233' passages dei ola—
tinn .il (lsspuir.

JEA'I‘ L ['0 dream of dfin
cr hm dead, is a [.130
axon. pmaging long life
Ind «and formaa. n no

new
'ecc very

m ROMANCE O? DREAMS.

otheu dead, is less bru-
nnto.

DEER, runniu ,
lisbuiem olg your plans.
‘0 kill one, a legacy. One

in your house, a sign of,
wealth. Deer-horns indi~
cute honor and dignity.
Several Ilél' uin'», your ao-
qnainta me w'd 3m extend-
ed. In the woods, atokon
of innovatoe.

DELUSIC N. Deludod or dil-
uppoinlr. d unpleuutly, do-
uvlCS ioi lite

JL‘A’AICIN . "

the 000.01!)-

DEVlLdir otesomgarthrui
ening ynn, whicn you Mn
overcom i.

iDICE. An evil dream, mum:

in

{Von (ire: tn you win.

GGING is a sign of wealth

To dig n grave, of happy

marriage.

DIRT signifies loss of health
or place, or friends, 0%
wealth.

DI TU lII'IS. Deep ditches tom
tell trouble and loss.

“00.3. If they fondle on yon.

it is a. sign of road luck; if.

they snarl an bark, of char

mies; if they bite you, 0;

loss.

DOLPHINS playing in this
water, denote the loss 02
your sweetheart, or some
near relation or friend: uri-
is not a good omen in any
res )ect.

DOV ZS. Friendship and love.

DRAGON. To slay one, do
notes rreat gain and honor‘

DRINK NG fresh, cold water.
presnges wealth and tri-
umph; warm water. nicks
ness or persecution. Wi
denotes the puma.”

 

 

 

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m DICTIONARY OI DREAII“

BROWNING. '.

DRUNKENNESS pressges
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 ood luck, and
drawn of ortune.

E.

EAGLE, perched high rm, is
egood omen, if you are of
s courageous spirit.

EAR. If it seems fair sud
well-shaped, on will come
to renown; 1 deformed, the
contrary. To pick the esr.

ood news; if they ere
eaten or cbafed, ih’ news.
If you lose it, you  lose
our friends. _

EXRTH WORM. You have
enemies, who are trying to
undermine vou.

EARTHQUAKE should warn
you to expect 3 change in

our stl'airs. If the house:-

 u‘ound you, take wan.-

lug, and remove from your

present residence ss soon

es you can. If they seem to

stand, you may yet recover
in our misfortunes.

“'1'! with'sn enemy fore-

Q tells reconciliation; with
friends, division.

EGGS are generally 1 good
omen, denoting e sequi-
sition of money; but to
cook them, pressges strife,

" 50mm, snd anxiety.

‘HIEKALD _ nines renown,
truth. sud deli“.

EN TERTAINMEWS. *.

ICLIPSE OF THE MOON.
The loss of e femsle friend

‘  or velstion.

 

ECLIPSE OF THE EU N.
Thedeath of a mele'reletion.
ELEPHANT denotes luck in
an enterprise, and the eo-
qulrement of riches. If on
are in love, your meme
will follow, and you will
t

es .

ELDERBERRIES. Good for»
tune and contentment.

EVE. To dream of t s
“mother of all living," is I
very favorable sign. for
yourself and family, pre-
saging your future distino.
tion and hn inese.

EVIL SPIR 8. You will
have treacherous ofl'ers and
suggestions made to you.
To rht them, implies den-
fcr—to overcome them,
riumph. To be called by
them, forebodes ill-fortune'
or sickness. 

EXECUTION. To witness on
execution, indicates that
you will sfl'ord relief to
some one in distress, and
make a friend.

EYES. To‘lose them is s
sign of misfortune andvexe-
tion. If our eyebrowsep-
pesr to two grown thick
end handsomely shaped,
you will come to fortune
snd distinction.

F.

FACES. Beautiful feces, or.
sage honor and Ion ifs.
Ugly.g:inning ones, enote
the reveue.

YACTION. To be cogs ed in
one, indicates wedfii by
indirect ways.

FAIRY. To see one, is forte:
nate fer s women hut-,M
for s men

 

 

 

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'AIR. To be at a fair is a
sign of an attcm )t to get
the advantage 0 on. If
you are in love, loo out for

our ewuetheart.

’ LL. Falling, in dreams,
denotes loss of lace or
goods, decline of usiness,
shipwreck, and false love.

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.

FAREWELL. To bid. farc-
wcll, or depart, without re-
turning, betokens death.

[EVER denotes dillicnlty
with your friends, or loss
of love, and sickness.

FEET. To wash your feet, dc-
notes molestation and trou-
ble. To have them scratch-
ed, denotes loss by llatterv.

v

FIRMAMEN'IVACLOUDS. *2

FIRE—FIREBRAND. *.

FISH. *.

“SH-POND denotes thriving
fortunes.

FILE denotes activity, and

rapid exchange
business.

IIELDS. Green fields, a hap-
py omen; plowed fields,
trouble with children or
friends; ripe fields, pros-

rity and content.

' OUTING indicates a
necessity for change of
place, because you can not
prosper where you are. To
he sail )r, storms and ship.
wreck.

"NGERS. If you cut them
and they bleed, it is a good
omen. To lose them do-
notes a vsriety of misfor-
tones.

in your

 

“HE ROMANCE U! DREAMS.

FIGS presage prospe rity and
happiness, success in love,
or a legac '.

FILBERTS. Anger, and trou-
ble with friends, and disapl
,ointments.

F ST ULA indicates 'mnch

ood, luck of every kind.
goth for landsmen and suil~

OI'S.

FLEAS uenote enemies of I
mean nature, and treachery
of your sweetheart.

FLIES are significant of per-
secution and slander, and
much vexation.

FLUUDS. Opposition from
owerful ersous. .To be
cvoured y one, that you

will leave your native land
to seek better fortunes.

FLOWERS. *.

FLYING *.

FLAGEOLE'I‘. To hear one
played, trouble and conten-
tion.

FLUTE. To hear or play
on one, annoyance snd
strife

FLESH To gain ficsh,denotes
increase of fortune; to loss
it, the reverse. To dream
of eating all kinds of flesh,
signifies sickness snd tron-

ble.

FORGOTTEN DREAMS, half
dreamed over, are ominous
of loss.

FORESTS. To seem lost in s
forest, siwnifies trouble.

FORGE. o be worki st
one, signifies thedpursult of
new projects, an an oddi-
tion to your fortune.

FORTUNE. To get book so
estate, once lost, is s good
omen, and indicstes the
probability that your dream
will prove true.

 

 

 

m DICTIONARY 0F DREA“

NLLY. For n woman to
r drum she has become fool-

ish, is: hign of I male child;
or a maiden, speedy mar.
ria e.

FOX )8 : forerunner 'of diffi-
culty. Slinrpcrs will over-
reech you, and your syeet-
heart prove untrue.

FROUS are on omen of in-
crease in friends and for-
tunes.

IRUlTS, if sweet and in sea-
Ion. are a good omen; it‘
sour or out of season, they
indicate unpleasant rela-
tions with friends. ‘

FRIEN D. [fyou see one dead,
he shall be moi-tied; or if
married deed.

FOUNTAiN, clear end pure,
the relief from all trouble.

FUNERAL. You will assist
1t 3 wedding.

FURNITURE. Beautiful fur-
niture in a good omen - bro-
ken end ugly, n be one.
To be displaying it, is I
uign of trouble.

G.

GAMES. To be en
mm of this king,
nous of misfortune.

GgRDEN. A garden full of

‘ overs and guy with peo le,
is l‘good omen; but si cut
end delerted, is e token of
narrow and 'et‘.

QALLOWS. 0 dream of see-

_ in; the gene's is a favor:-

‘ . ,. ‘ bl. omen for gonna, or for

tell! mod". .ndrido

. one: roe t

' diamante e. P‘ l” ’

“RUG. To out i , u’gnif
the discover“ 7 . uh -
bloc-nun . '

ed in
u onu-

 

GEMMEW'ELRY. "

(JESSE denote good, and
that. on will see absent
frien 3. They augur sue
0053 in marriage, end in
obtaining riches,

GIANTS nrc ominous ofgood.
Your fortune shall exceed
your expectations, andyout
enteryrises will be large.

Glillsl‘ll‘. To see a ereon
hanging to a gibbe it I
sign of misfortune.

Ull*"l'S. To receive them, in I
good omen; but to in
any thin away, is 1 ore.
runnero ndversity,undiu-
constancy in love.

GIN. Pleasure, followed by
dissatisfaction.

GIRDLE. Wenrin an old
girdle, signifies abor Ind
pain; a new one, strength
and mod fortune.

GLASb denotes inconstnncy
in your sweetheart. “you
break it, you will be for“.
ken. To receive water in I

lass. is 11 good omen. To
reak one. and will the
contents, forctcllst 6 death
ofn friend. ‘

GLOBE. To study a globe
Iignifics that you will be:
great traveler; if in love,
you will not mart your

resent sweetheart, ut will
ud another in a strung.
Counlr .

GOOD. ‘0 do 3 good action
indicates a coming pleu
ure: to receive one in s
m ofEnin. r

GO 388 RRlES. Retain
mnuy sons and success it
life. To the mlor dangerl;
to n mnide'a e roving hit
b‘nd. ' r ‘5'

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m nomcn or .0an ‘

BONDOLA. To sail in one, if
the wnter in clear, success
in love.

GRAIN. *.

GRAPES. A good fortune,

' and cheerful companion for

‘ life- also true love.
ORAi’E. To see u grave fore-

tell: sickness and trouble.

To descend 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

life.

GROVES. *.

GUARDIAN-SPIRITS. To
lee one indicates that you
have the love of some one
whom you'do not know:

‘ and bolokonn happiness.

GUNS. To see or hear them
fired ofl‘, is a sign of ndvur-
sity If you fire one, you
wil be involved in o ditli-
culty.

GYPSY. To see one in lucky

' for lovers, but none others.

11.

HAIR. White hair on your-
Ielf ,rtends amiclion and
tho onors. To lose your

‘ hair is indicnfivo of loss of

an In .

BAIL. Hm «tonne prestige o
'Itomy life for u tune, with
the coldneao of 30m. near
friends. ‘

[IAN D. A raised or uplifted

‘ hand signifies that you will
be raised from your sorrc N.

RANGE l). To be hanged ug-
nifies the elevation of your
fortune;

1'. Torn or dirt , baton-
onl dishonor. 'ico ond
plus-at, good-form“.

 

RAE" betokens sound-lion -

to the eorrveul;jo] to alt ‘.

[1.5 WKS. Are a sign of ob ‘7
taming your wis’nes. . '_
HEAD. To dream it enlarged
signifies esteem, unless the
dreamer is sick. To ml"
cat can of your bend
Aokens deliverance fun“

den er. '

HEAlg-TURNED. You ml
be reairained from leaving

our resent residence.

HIEAV N. To see heaven do.
notes 'oyful events; toclimh
to it onor.

HILLS. Climbing them be-
tokens difficulnu Ind dit- A
ellipointment. . ‘ ‘

HO AIDAYS and festivity
are ominous of misery and
anllTfllllg. _ ‘ r .

HOME. To return home Iifl~
nifies on end of grief, ’

HORSES. ’. *

HURNS signify dominion
and grandeur. To see oth.
ers man than is aoign o
enmity a! unperiors. H

"OUSE. To build one is 0

mod omen; to see one on
re or destroyed in nny
wn is ominous of evil.

HUNGER is u ood’omen,
denoting unbiuon mdhigh
fortunes. ».

HUNTE R. ‘. ' v

HUSBAN DRY. To dream o!
lfplow denotes reaper-it“
o ayoke bad nok, union ..
it be brolnn; of on 9'.-
enemies; of u team, out:
in the family, or o broth».
of with n "cement

L . 

IDOL. To worship    '

drum signing; pm

 

J!!! 3101103“! 02‘ BM

less end gsyety, but that

 {on will eventually tire of

hen things, and alter your
habits.

“3101‘. To seem an idiot, or
mad, denotes long life and
many friends, who shall
cling to you for your sinis-
ble utilities. "'

1013. 0 see vast fields of ice
alone denotes desolation ;
but to skate upon it. in com-
;‘i‘any is a sign of pleasures.

0 take ice in your hands
denotes that your sweet-
heart is ure and true.

lGNOMl. . To suffer shame
resages false accusations,
ram which you will rise

justified.

ILLUMINATED. Houses il-
luminated signify quarrels,
either public or private.

IMAGE. Pictures or iumgzes

» , betoken ehildren, end are
d omens otherwise.

lb UEST. To be at nu in—

nest is a good omen: and

ii it he a relative whose ili-

quest it is, you will. receive

e lefecg.

INTR G E. 'To be engaged
in en intrigue, is en evil
semen.

[233. To be st sn inn, is not
1 good sip]: some of your
friends m I be unfortunate,
sud. our own goods are in

n
0N. To be workin iron,
eigniflesdisuniouuu strife-
but to see or handle eel-l
siren, is I good omen

IVY-denotes good fortune,

sud true friends. To be

wenedwithigisssi
trim Kn.

ph.

 

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JEAI:‘J\$BY. To be jeslous oi
your sweetheart, is s good
sign, for she is true to you.

JOCleY. For a. lady to see I I

joekev riding at full speed i ' ‘

signiiiesthmslie will weed
ily have an 0301’ of mar
ria _e; for a man to see one,
so den ood luck.

JOY; To eel great joy, is e
token of diss poiutuient.
JUlilliEE. To ream of being

at n jubilee, is a token that
a fortune will he left you.
JUG signifies unforeseen
events, perhaps a journey.
If what you drink out of
sjug is lessset, so will be
your e ventures, or, the
contrarg. \_
JUNll’El. To ather‘guniper
berries, signi les ear y mar-
riage to the single, or re»
mill] to the marrie , en
es the dreemer be sick
Y

KEYS siwnify s end wifefii
husbanlnndn app home,
with prosperity. ut 10
lose one is a sign of misfor-
tune or bed faith.

KINGS. To meets king alone
press es the overcoming oi
old difliculties, and an ele-
vation of fortune, unless he
seems angry with you.

TE. To see it boy's kite
soaring on high, is e. and
omen. But the bird 0 that
mains is en omen of Site-

mics.

KISSING. To kiss efriesd'ls
s good omen; to kiss an
enemy, reconciliation; to

kiss strangers, danger, i1 1‘

not destli. I  A,

 

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KNIVES denote strife and.
miser .

KNOW .EDGE. To be see]:-
lngoraequiringknowledge,
denotes a discovery, which
wil' add to your satisfaction.

L
"LA BOB. 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 ho cs will miscarry.
LADDER. 0 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
hairpresage sickness; those
with fair hair, a happy

event. Very beautiful go
en locks on a lady, signify
wealth. A besutitul, un-
knogzm lady, is s sign of
"rcalth, especially if she kiss
you; if she seem to pray, it
announces some great good
fortune.
uADY-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 brin a
lamb to slaughter, signi es
torment. To see one quiet-
ly feeding upon 5ras:,-is a
nod omen.

RIPS. Lamps or lights,
shining out of a house, sig-
n%iutelligence.

u. . Itis 00d to dream of
owning lsn , if cultivated:

 

m ROMANCE Oi CREJ 113.

it Insets: a good wife, a
pleasant home, and friends
in lent '

LANI‘EIL. To see on: ex-
tinguishel, is s sign of
death.

LAUGHING. Dream oflaugli
ing, and waken to sorrow.

‘ LAUREL. The laurel-tree is

a sivn of victor and lens-

ore.” If marrietyi, it depnmvs

aninheritance. Tonmuiden
and fortune in marriage.

LAWYERS. To dream of
being engaged in law, ire-
sages grief, misery, and
ruin, unless you seem to be
in court, when you will sue-
ceed in any present under-
takin .

LEAI’IUG. To leap over
ditches, or other obstacles,
denotes success after trials.

LEAP-YEAR. To think you
are in the leap-year, 1s a
very good omen, and indi-
c:itcs extraordinary success
in all ‘cur enterprises.

LEOP-A US foretell honor
ifter 1'. anle and treachery.

LEGS. Any thing the matter
with your legs, is a very
bad omen.

LETTERS '

LETTUCE, or other salads,
eaten, signify trouble in
Your affairs.

LESIONS denote contention,
disap ointmeutnndcruelty.

LICE. 0 kill them in num-
bers denotes relief from
twubiesome enemies.

LIGHT. *.

LlGllT-IIOUSE. Profitable
advice or seasonsble warm

in .

LIIfES. Garden-lilies, {toys
water-lilies, danger on
the sen.

 

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m DICTIONARY or DREAES.
‘ «a

m. Dressed in clean
limo, denotos the receipt
of good nuns; dirty linen,
ill-news 3111.1 i.l-luck.

LION foretells the patronage
of those in pow-2r; or if on-

(V, their enmity.

L ’8. To have them seem
red and handsome, denotes
the ll’3illlll nml good’f'ortunu
ofyonr frn'nds. “dry and
colorless, the conti'nrv.

LYING. To seem to be tel.-'ing
lies, is not a good omen,
and you will be doccived.

TJZA RD. Ill-luck by unknown
enemies.

LOVE. To be in love fore-

, as long sorrow, unless it
is returned, which denotes
Erosperity. The love of a

enntiful woman signifies
varied fortunes.

M

MADNESS presages fortune
and favor from those in
ower.

ID. To have s young
niaid's'lon is a good omen ;
but to carry her off by vio.
lonce signifies great sdver-

sitv.

HARRIAGE ress es death
to the sick, at is avornble
to those sbont engaging in
business. To others, this
dream signifies strife and

care.
HEAT row, is not s good
omen; but dressodis more
fortnnste: and if scccm-
gisslled tithigtherlpleuant
usual 1: es: e acy.
DLlSBg mnn Ogle!) of
mischief; if you I’CH'OVO
that), on wflltrinmp
IKLONg signify content, or
may to the sick.

 

 

a

MERRIMENT. To be a iook.
er-ou of scenes of men"?
ment, is a good omen 'l'r

Eartake, you will have tron

le.

MICE denote accumulation ri
riches. To the 'nrum;
ilontifnl crops.

MILK. 'l‘o sell milk, you or“
be PTOSSQJ in love. 'l'i
drink it, run will hear goon
news. '10 see a woman's
bronst flowing milk in nu
CXCL‘iif‘lll, ()mt‘n.

Ml LL p rcsnges the settlement
of atl‘airs long troubling

Oll-

MFRROR. To see yourself in
a mirror signifies new
friends, or the return of old
ones. if you break one,
you will he slundered._ If
you see one spotted md
dim, Your brother or friend

ill (is-grace himself.

Mllili To be sticking in it
prcsngcs long and great
difficulties.

MOONLIGHT on water is n
rood dream for lovers. The
Full moon denotes pence,

lensure. also plenty.

NEY. To see money,_or
find it, in o ood omen;
butcountiagit enotestrOu-
ble in our atl'uirn.

MONS’I R. '.

MORN‘. *3 STAR. To see the
morning or evening star
shining clear and bright,
signifies strange ndventnru
and travel.

MOTHER. To see her cl."
and smiling is a happy
omen; but to dream of he!
dea‘th signifies sorrow. .

MULTITUDE. To sea I ,_
throng of people burr 4‘ '
to so fro, is o I‘gn' i

 

 

 

N

woman of unexpected fa-
vor from a man; and vice

versa.

MULBERRIES betoken good
fortune to all who dream. of
them in season.

MURDER. *.

M UHIC. *.

\1 Y RTLE is a favorable omen
to lovers and also for farm-
crs.

N.
NIGHT AND DAY regularly

succeeding denote a diver-
sified lit'e.

NIGHTINGALES singing,
betoken great good news.

NIGHTMARE DREAMS are
often ominous. Ifyou hear
a voice, attend to what it
savs.

NUS. To see a mm, 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 ( uarrel.

NAILS. Lon r naills denote
wealth, an success in life
general] .

NAKEDNEISS. To dream of
a naked woman is a lucky
omen, foretelling great good
fortune which on did not
expect. A na ed man is
not favorable.

Nl‘ICTARINES signify strife,
infidelity; and to the sailor,
bad weather.

NYMl’llS. Sea-nymphs fore-
tell pleasure, with a melan-
oholy end.

w

(1.

QAK TREE. W “1th and long
his

 

THE ROMANCE 0F DREAXt

OFFICE. To be turned out 01
oiiice in a dream, foretell!
loss of afl‘ectiou, money, or

lace.

()lil Vlib‘. Eating them, signi-
iies good fortune; gather.
ing,r them, vexation.

Olil) AGE. To be old, signi-
fies speed v good news. To
see an ol man or woman,
and they be making nii'co
tionate advances, is a sign
of the love of the young.

ONIONS denote hidden mis-
chief; still, if 'ou seem to
gather them, it is a gourd
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 ofchildrcn.

OWL. This dream foretell:
various misfortunes, and
forewarns of treachery.

OVEN shows that after mam]
dilliculties you shall be
prospered.

Oi'S’PlflltS denote pleasuu
and plenty, thrivin busi-
ness, and success in ore.

P.

PAINTIKG presages success

in love; honor and pros
‘crity in life.

P LMS. To gather palms
denotes plenty, riches, an
a li h station.

PAl’ld 1. Fair, clean paper,
denotes agreeable pursuits;
if written over, hasty news;
if rumpled and ill written,
you wi.l learn of diflinulmos

 

 

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THE DICTJIORAR! 0' Dmll.‘

PATHB Smooth, good paths,
on Ignificunt of easy tor
'tunes; rough und uneven

ones, of hurrlshlpw and uns-
(mimics.
93A HMS (lclmlo \wepnzg.
FEACUVK 'l‘luls bird is slg
nlfichLl of Hell»: qu suc-
cew; also of \‘ullll_\'.

PEACHES. Happy love.

PEA RS. Elevation lr life, with

‘ all-lble connectluxm

PERFUMES. *. .

PlC‘l‘UREb‘ -—- PORTRAITS

Blvull'y new friends, who
wlll give us great. pleasure;
exce n they seem to more,
whlc is am ad omen.

.PIIANTOMS flitting silently
‘ around. l'orebudc cvxl.
PIUEUNS signify hasty good

\ ’news. 'l'o lovers they are
a sign of a. llu'hsuge.

" HT. If you full in, you will
have I grew misfortune.
If you'are in, and dream of
climhmg out. [you will cs-
cnpe runnv dillwulties.

. BLAYS. To be at a play do-
notes good luck Ind meni-
meut. ‘

' I'LUMS sl (My scandal,vexo~

Allon, an danp nintment.

‘ POSD. A pond 0 clear water

~ signifiel peace and content

at home.

foretell

fog-tame Ind honor; Ilsa,

‘ and temp: in your sweet-

earl.

Snderance
.in

' 5 0115131- 5icknem. Yet

 _ those an extreme danger

iii: In cum: oratory.

PROSPERITY. Drums of
alt prorperity prongs

eminent.

To an an. is I

our user {n1 ufairs, orl

71

good omen, Ind denotol tho
safety of your love, your
fortune, and your friends.
To lose one is a bad omen.

Q.

QUARRI-IHXU denotes tron-
blc and {also love.

QUll.l..' —~ liltlS’l'lJES. To
seem covered willfthelo il
a very unfortunate omen.

QUINCES indicate favonbla
fortunes, and extrication
from all present cares. '

R.

RACING. To run I me iLI
rood omen, unlc-ss you In
beaten. Riding a race show]
disappmnuneut.

RAlN. A gmltler rain in omi-
nous 0:" 00d ortune, e090-
cmlly I‘m-g the nick. A no-
lent rain is I Ilgu of the
destruction of our hopes.

RAINBOW. 'I‘hrs is I prom— ‘
ising omen to the poor, the

1 prisoner, or sick. To I

dosponding lover it is:

l token ol‘jof.

uRASPBl'IRR ESsi xif prom
' and p.eusnre; so with.
EATS Ilgnify enomiel or

I thlevq.
RAV'EXBhnotemlschiefud
l adveznzy, falsehood Ind
l infidelit .
READIN botokans agree»
l ble and honorable panuitL
If you read any thing ro-
markablc, it is Intended II
aw ‘
RED.
1 Ion

 

armng.

To see nuch red, crim.
Irments. I lurid It
or at of

' augnino

, omen.

I.
pemncel of I ,

no, in I

 

REST — TRANQUILLITY.
Sweet repose and quiet
iresa es turmoil and care.

R DIN . To ride pleasantly
denotes prosperity ' but
with great speed, t e “e—
verse.

BING. 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-

ha 3.

Boeing. ».

RODS. To be struck with a
rod signifies erfidy in a
friend. A broien rod sig-
nifies separation of friends
or lovers.

ROSES in their season are a
good omen; but out of it,
old, oftrouble.

BUI S signify repentance
and remorse; also or bro-
ken fortunes.

S.
B .ILING. '.

If you sail

leasantly slon , you shall
gave agreeable ortuue; but
if storms arise you may ex-

pect them in your life. A
wreck is a Very unfavorable

omen. .
BAILORS. If you dream of
one, expect reward or

rofit.
B {NT AONES’ 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~
Mon and strlf . '

 

m ROXAIIGE 0F DEM

SEA -SHELL8 denote s
journey, and news
afar.
SERPENT. ‘.
Silll’sailingaway from share,
is n sign of rief.
SllAVING. o shave or be
shared, denotes loss or
treachery; shi )wreck to
the sailor, and infidelity to
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 vourself, shows
that you will get an edme 4
tage over some one.
SHOOTING. To kill game is
a favorable dream. and in
dicutes ood cheer. 
SHOES. i'eiv ones indicate
success in some chosen prov
fession ; marriage to a maid'
en, and a good husband;
l’oor, torn shoes, show com-

in loss. ..

SIL . To be clothed in it
foretells rise in honors, with
much trouble. It betokens
to a woman that her has
band is unfaithful; to U
maiden that she will see
her lover soon.

SI LVER denotes friendship '
It is not ood, however, to
pick up silver money. To
s women it signifies a girl
inéood time. -

SIN ING. To hear 'sl
denotes the confirmation‘c!
hopes; but to be singing
disappointment. , '

SLEEP. To seemtobeaslsep .
betokens pesee. To see};
man asleepmnmit when
tiful woman, does t: emu-r

bend or Vite. hyphen“ 

 

‘ m D101 'ONAB.' 0’ mum

SNOW sifnifles fond And tree
h) ' so

ve a afiluence.

somn’nns betoken quarrels
and discontent

BURES signify calamity and
disgrace. If the scabs fall
ofi‘, you will eventually
overcome your dilliculties.

rlf‘llll'l'b‘. ".

HHTE. To'rerenge yourself
3 itefully, is a bail omen.
SP '1‘. If you turn a spit, it
signifies that your fortune
wnl be very perverse in all

res ects.

BQU RREL shows mischief
and meddling.

STARCHING. To starch lin-
en, indicates an industrious
husband and a pleasunt
home. It also signifies
some cause for pride.

STARS. *.

STATUES. *.

STRASGE PLACES. To be
in a strange place is a sign
of inconstaney; but also of

00 news.
8 AWBERRIES signify
much leusure and good

' . luck, when in season.
BUN. To see the sun rise in a
dream, is an excellent omen;
but better still. if it shines

into your house.-
STORM. *.

BWALLOWS. Griefsnd part-

SW N. To see one, pressges
wealth; to hear one sing is

n si n of death.
Wl MING. To swim with
our head out of the water,
II a token 0! success; but
ll. be I! that under the

appointment.

 

1'

‘.".\MAR1NDS signify “Sb
twn and disappointment b)
one of the other sex. «

T‘i‘AltS. Weepng prenges
haypmess on walling.

Tfilil‘li. To lose :1 tooth, s'l -
nilics the loss of n {1520115.
To cut one, a new friend, or
the birth of a child.

Tl‘lMl’lCS’l‘S denote

mice after trials.

T ulillUlL To be mqu tern
tied is a bad dream for the
sick; and often mdicetel
dun rer to those in health.

THUIHHCR. l’eals of thunder

\henrd in dreams, are the
ynices of sngels.

TOAD. To see a toad prestige:
quarrel, deceit, treuhei-y.

TOMB. *.

TOWERS. To see them, do
notes envy. To dwell in
them, fan or of the post
To destroy them, unexpth
ed powur.

Tlllfllab‘. *.

TREASURE. To find it, is
ominous of treachery 01 .l
bosom friend; if you sue'!
notable to take it urn) wits

on, it denotes a heavy loss

TIi'UMl’ETS. Hearing they
signines trouble and on K
lnmit'f. ‘

TURNII’S signify the saqut
sition cf riches.

U.
UNKNOWN PERSONS. '.

V.

VIOLETS. To see them in as.
sun is ominous of mode“
and happy love.

VOICES. ‘.

8W0”

 

 

 

N
W.
'AKI‘NG. "l‘o seem to be

awake, denotes rapid ud-
yancemont in all things.

WALKING To be fatigued
W\tll walking denotes trou-
ble; to walk In the dirt,
great vexa’ion with friends
or neighbors.

WIAIJIIS. .-

WATCH. *.

WATER. To cross crear, fair
water, is a sign of journeg-
ing, and of overcoming o
stucles.

WATER MlliLindicntes thrift
in your affairs.

WASTE PLACES betoken a
lonely old a e.

WA'l‘lCltli‘Al.
speedy legacy.

WAVES. Stormy waves sig-
nify trouble; but gently
roiling waives, great deeds.

WALNU'i‘S. Rude fortunes
and domestic troubles.

WEDDING. To be at s Wed-
ding denotes disappoint-

‘ nwnt.

WHEAT. A field of wheat
wavmg in the sun and
breeze, signifies the fulfill-
ment ofyonr most sanguine
wishes.

WILLOW. A sign of grief to
all save mariners.

WINDS Soft and gentle
visas are favorable for lov-
m; tompestuous winds

denotes a

 

m ROMANCE 0’ DRELMI.

signify dealings with m
and dishonest men.

WINE. To taste wine is I
good 0in11; but to see it
spilt denotes loss of high
li())CS.

“[0 D. To cut wood signifies
the coming to a respectable
station for the poor; but
for the rich, loss of estate
’l‘o seem to walk in a. pleas-
ant wood is a good sign.

WOOL. To seem to be buy--
incr or selling 1t denotes
a uence. To dream you

have wool on your head is
ominous of sic ness.
WUUNDS. To get a sword
wound is a favorable omen,
Signif'ing honor and riches.
WliliNb signify happiness
and domestic content false

plenty.

WRITING. To dream of writ-
ing presuges the receipt of
news. If you write in a
book, you will fall much in
love.

Y.

YOUNG. To fancy yoursqu
young again, as in times
past, is ominous of diegrace
and affliction.

YOUTH. For a woman to
dream her youth is restored
is a good omen, and the
fulfillment of some long
cherished hope win follow.

 

BEADL'E’S DIME SCHOOL MELODIST.

COMPRISING TUE

Music and Words of familiar and‘ beautiful Songs, Duets, Trios, _etc., at.
ranged in a simple manner {or bchool Singing, with elementaryinstxuo

tlonn suited to Clllldl‘cll of the moat tender age.

by Gamma C. ltxxrono.

A boat, a boat,

A farmer‘s life,

A smile from thee,
Blow, blow, blow,
Bonnie Eloise,

Bright rosy morning,
Busy bee,

Canadian hoat song,
Chairs to mend,
Chimney nook,

Day is fading,
Elements of music,
Ett‘ie May,

Ever of thee,

Far o‘er hill and dull,
Fare thee well,
Flowers and sunshine,
Flow gent} , Afton,
Gallant an gaily,
Gentle troubadour,
Inppy school-boy,

 

Hark, ’tis the bells,
llarvert time,

llaste thee winter,
House that Jack built,
llazel dell,

I love the merry snns‘e
i. choose to he a daisy,
In words of joy,

Joy of innocence,
Joy, freedom to-day,
Lightly row,

Little cottage,

Merry sleighride,
Morning ramble-l,
Morning call,
Morning has come,
Murmur gentle lyre,
Music murmurin ,
Over hill, over do e,
Over the summer sea,
Peaceful slumborlng,

Compiled and arranged

Round for four voicen,
Row, fishermen, row
Scotland‘s burning,
See our oars,

Song,' of the mountain,
Sprint,r is here,
Smilin May,

Sweet lirds singing,
Switzer’e song,

The sleighride,

The invitation,

The river
The bell doth toll,
Time to walk, ,
'l‘yrolese even’g hymn,
Vesper hell,

We are all noddin,
What can the mut’r b.
When tempted to,-
Working boy.

 

 

BEADLE’S DIME MELODIST

COMPRISING THE

Music and words of the new and most popular songs sud ballads, by J. R.
THOMAS, (izonun F. ROM, W. V. WALLACE, Gnome LINLEY, Srnrnn
Gnovnn, SAMUEL Lovnn, and other eminent composers.

A hundred years ngo,
A lowly youth,
Anna Bell,
Annie Lowe,
le quiet, do. I’ll call,
‘Bime, home bell,
llonnie Eloise,
(“fry me to Tennweee,
318 May,
T‘Ar on the deep sea,
" to thee Well, Katy,
i » orgive,

.35 ., , ape on. hope ever,

ad a gentle mother,

‘ll dream no more,
Q1! the wild Chamois,
(eenio kiino.

ennie‘s bonnie e‘e

.0: me like a soldier die
. ,Ove'me little,

‘. buiou Lee,

 

CONTENTS.

Mary of Lake Enon,
Mary ofthe glen,
Mother, sweet mother,
My love. he is a saileur.
My soul in one sigh,
(lit in the stiin night,
Oh, whisper what thou,
Old Josey,

Once upon a time,

One cheering word,
()ne partingr Hing,
Poor Thomas Duy,
Pretty Nelly,

Round for three voices,
Scenes that are hright‘t
Slee )in;r l dreamt-d,
Soft y, ye night winds,
Some one to love.
Strike the light guitar,
Swinging all day long.

(10)

 

‘Tis pleasant young
’Tis the hour of lové,
I‘he dearest spot of,
The feinale smuggler,
The good-hyat the (1001'.
The hazel dell,

The leaves that fall,
The low-hacked car,
The mother‘s smile,
The old folks are gout,
The winds that waft,
There. in a flower,
There is (lat-knees,
Thou art mine own
Where is home?

Wh do I Weep,

Wit ow Machreo,

Wild 'l‘iadatton,
Winsome Winnie,
Work, work.

 

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BEADLE’S DIME BOOK OF ETIQUETTE.

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Society. Includingr lutiquette ot' the Hall Room, of the Evening Party,
the Dinner Party, the (lard and Chess Table, of Business, of the Home
Circle, etc. etc. Prepared expressly for the ” Dime Series," by 3 Com-
mittee of Three.

eox'rrm'rs.

ENTRANCE INTO SOCIE'I‘Y.—Contidence Vs. lmsht‘ulness, Kindnesl
VB. rudeness, the Bones of Society. how to treat, them.

()N DRESS AND URNAMEN'l‘S.—'I‘ho vulgarity of "Flash" attire.
llrn ilicity in Dress :1 mark ot'unmi-hreeding.

(L VISITS, INTROl)17(1'l‘l()NS. l~‘.re,—'l‘he law of Politeness a law of
gindness, when Visits. are proper, Introductions, Presentations, etc., and

orms.

EVENING PARTIES. DANCISS, Ero.—-The E” mette of the Ball Room,
general directions for the same.

GAMES 01“ CARDS, CHESS, Era—When proper and now conducted,
general Rules of the Games. the ill-hr :eding ol’ Belling or Bragging.

()N CUNVEllS;\'l‘i(>N.-—lts usefulness and good results, how to com-
port yourself. direetions for it.

0N LE’I‘TI‘I‘R AND NU'l'li WRl’I‘ING.—I‘roprieties and Improprietien
of the same, gent ral directions for a good letter.

'IIUW TU UIVI] AND RECEIVE INVI’I‘ATIUNS.-—General usage in all

Cases.
0N ENTERTAINMENTS.—The Etiquette of the Table, how to serve a

Guest. and how to he serwd. speeial directions.

0); PERSONAL Chit-\NLINIISS—A Word tothe Laborer—0n Religion
and Respect for Age—0n ’l‘heaters, l’romeuudes, e1e.——()n Love, (‘ourt-
shi and Marriage—’l‘he laws of Home Etiquette—Special Advice to
La ies—Generul observations and Closing Chapter.

 

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tions and Rules for the use of all classes, on all occasions; also a in
of Improper Words and Expressions, together with their Correct Fermi
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(‘oxrtxrm

(TOMPOSI’l‘ION.—The secret of a good Letter—Directions to the Nevico
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GENERA L ADVICE 'I‘U LETTER WRITERS.

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