ters all day long. They had need, among the to sacrifice to the god Morpheus, whom Philos tus paints in a white and black coat, with a h and ivory box full of dreams of the same colo to signify good and bad."

CAST. These are the manufacture, I presu of two of those sons of sleep, born to him b beautiful but erring grace," Phantasus," or Fan and "Phobetor," or Terror. With the relatio and illustrations of these good and bad dreams, pages of both fiction and authentic history aboun another poetical batch of causes, Ida. claims,

"Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man,
Oh Marcia! I have seen thy god-like father-
A kind, refreshing sleep fallen upon him.

I saw him stretched at ease, his fancy lost
In pleasing dreams. As I drew near his couch,

He smiled, and cried, 'Cæsar, thou cans't not hurt me.'"
Another poet writes thus:

"But most we mark the wonders of her reign,
When sleep has lock'd the senses in her chain:
When sober judgment has his throne resign'd,
She smiles away the chaos of the mind;
And, as warm fancy's bright elysium glows,
From her each image springs, each colour flows.
She is the sacred guest, th' immortal friend;
Oft seen o'er sleeping innocence to bend,
In that dead hour of night, to silence giv'n,
Whispering seraphic visions of her heav'n."

Then Richmond exclaims, "My heart is very jocund in the remembrance of so fair a dream;" while the coward conscience of Richard thus speaks,

"By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night

Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard,

Than could the substance of ten thousand soldiers."

Aufidius thus recounts his slumbering memory

of the prowess of Coriolanus:

"This happy Roman, this proud Marcius, haunts me.
Each troubled night, when slaves and captives sleep,

INFLUENCE OF DARK BLOOD IN THE

BRAIN.

"I talk of dreams,

Which are the children of an idle brain."

Romeo and Juliet.

Ev. That I may explain to you the predisposition of a dream-in other words, the state of broken slumber-it is essential that I recur to the physiology of the brain; and I must humble our pride by combining some of the debasing conditions of our nature, as influential on the divine mind, through the medium of its chambers of marrow; for to the intimate condition and function of the brain and its nerves, and its contained blood, we must chiefly look for elucidation of the physical causes of a dream.

Yet I may even grant you, for an argument, Astrophel, the flight of an immortal spirit, and all the amiable vagaries of Sir Thomas Brown, reserving to myself to prove at what moment we become conscious of this flight.

In natural actions there are ever three requisites, like the points of a syllogism

1. A susceptibility of influence;

2. The influence itself;

3. The effect of this influence :

And these I call the predisposing, the exciting, and the proximate causes.

1. The brain is brought to this susceptibility by excited temperament, study, intense and undivided thought; in short, by any intense impression.

2. The influence or excitement is applied; congestion of blood producing impression on the extremities, or origin of a nerve, at the period of departing or returning consciousness. At these periods the blood changes, and I believe, as it chan

Forgetful of their chains, I in my dreams
Anew am vanquish'd; and beneath his sword
With horror sinking, feel a tenfold death-
The death of honour."

And yet another:

"Though thy slumber may be deep,

Yet thy spirit shall not sleep.

There are shades that will not vanish,

There are thoughts thou canst not banish."

And, lastly, Crabbe, in his "World of Dreams :"

"That female fiend, why is she there?
Alas! I know her. Oh, begone!
Why is that tainted bosom bare?
Why fixed on me that eye of stone?
Why have they left us thus alone?
I saw the deed-"

ASTR. You will drown us in a flood of Helicon, fair lady, if you thus dole out the thoughts of these maudlin poets. The records of national and domestic history, the dreams of the conqueror of thousands, and of the midnight assassin, are replete with incidents, if we will search for them, more impressive, ay, and more romantic, than all this rhyming; and from the legends of history alone I could select a legion of dreaming mysteries which would dissolve all these finespun theories of Evelyn regarding the essence, as he terms it, of the dream. He must adopt a clearer course, in showing us his causes, than by harping on this favourite theme of memory; and we must listen through another moonlight ere we be made wiser by the unfolding of this grand secret of visions.

INFLUENCE OF DARK BLOOD IN THE

BRAIN.

"I talk of dreams,

Which are the children of an idle brain."

Romeo and Juliet.

Ev. That I may explain to you the predisposition of a dream—in other words, the state of broken slumber it is essential that I recur to the physiology of the brain; and I must humble our pride by combining some of the debasing conditions of our nature, as influential on the divine mind, through the medium of its chambers of marrow; for to the intimate condition and function of the brain and its nerves, and its contained blood, we must chiefly look for elucidation of the physical causes of a dream.

Yet I may even grant you, for an argument, Astrophel, the flight of an immortal spirit, and all the amiable vagaries of Sir Thomas Brown, reserving to myself to prove at what moment we become conscious of this flight.

In natural actions there are ever three requisites, like the points of a syllogism

1. A susceptibility of influence;

2. The influence itself;

3. The effect of this influence :

And these I call the predisposing, the exciting, and the proximate causes.

1. The brain is brought to this susceptibility by excited temperament, study, intense and undivided thought; in short, by any intense impression.

2. The influence or excitement is applied; congestion of blood producing impression on the extremities, or origin of a nerve, at the period of departing or returning consciousness. At these periods the blood changes, and I believe, as it chan