a habitual mocker at anything out of the common way. For example,
Hone published a comic explanation, correct or not, of the famous
Stockwell mystery.

Supposing Hone's story to be true, it naturally conducts us to yet
more unfamiliar, and therefore less credible dreams, in which the
unknown past, present, or future is correctly revealed.




CHAPTER II


Veracious Dreams. Past, Present and Future unknown Events "revealed".
Theory of "Mental Telegraphy" or "Telepathy" fails to meet Dreams of
the unknowable Future. Dreams of unrecorded Past, how alone they can
be corroborated. Queen Mary's Jewels. Story from Brierre de
Boismont. Mr. Williams's Dream before Mr. Perceval's Murder.
Discrepancies of Evidence. Curious Story of Bude Kirk. Mr.
Williams's Version. Dream of a Rattlesnake. Discrepancies. Dream of
the Red Lamp. "Illusions Hypnagogiques." The Scar in the Moustache.
Dream of the Future. The Coral Sprigs. Anglo-Saxon Indifference. A
Celtic Dream. The Satin Slippers. Waking Dreams. The Dead Shopman.
Dreams in Swoons.

Perhaps nothing, not even a ghost, is so staggering to the powers of
belief as a well-authenticated dream which strikes the bull's eye of
facts not known to the dreamer nor capable of being guessed by him.
If the events beheld in the dream are far away in space, or are remote