PREFACE.

“To sleep, perchance to dream.”--HAMLET.

This introductory page is inserted, not with the purpose of reviewing the

contents of the book--a custom, to our mind, more honored in the breach

than the observance--but merely to inform those who look within the pages,

the seekers after knowledge concerning the laws of Oneirology and the

bases of Fortune Telling, that they will find much to instruct, interest

and amuse. While avoiding undue prolixity, the subjects are

comprehensively and exhaustively treated, proving it to be more valuable

as a book of reference than any other of similar character ever before

given to the public.