"In order to clear up the first point, I went on the following day (1st April, about 6.30) to see Signa Linda Bigoni and asked her to tell me all about the visit at which she had been present. She replied that she had gone to see Maria the day before, about 2.30 while the man was there, and she confirmed all the details about the object of his visit, his remarks, the things he had with him, his politeness, his age and the colour of his clothes. He had made the same proposition to her as to Maria. As she had arrived after him, she could not say by which door he had entered; but she said he had left before her and had gone out by the kitchen door, towards the river. On being questioned, she replied that she had not seen Signa. Maria since the visit. Before leaving her, I requested her, if the man should come to her house, or if she should meet him in the street, to ask him on what day he had come to Padua; which she promised to do.

"The same evening I went back to Signa. Maria and before telling her of my talk with Signorina Linda, I questioned her and her mother again. Signa. Maria said she did not remember by which door the man had gone out, or rather she had paid no attention, but her mother said she was certain that he had gone out by the kitchen door, because he had seen some one enter that way and on leaving had said that as there was a door there also he would go out by it. The mother did not know, however, whether he or Signorina Linda Bigoni had left first, but Signa. Maria was sure he had gone away first, because afterwards she had continued her conversation with Signorina Linda about their own affairs, and this conversation, begun before he left, had prevented her noticing by which door he quitted the house.

"Both then said they remembered Signorina Linda Bigoni's coming at about 2.30 while the man was there, and that he had come before two and stayed nearly an hour.

"Thus all the testimony is in accordance, and no doubt remains that the event with all its details really happened.

"On the evening of 18th April, Signa. Maria told me that her friend, Signa. Linda Bigoni had something to tell me, but in order to keep her promise she would tell it only to me. Signa. Maria said that Linda Bigoni was coming to see her on the morrow, when I could meet her.

"The following day (19th April) I went to see Signa. Maria at the time fixed, and found Linda Bigoni at the house. The latter told me she had met the man in the street; that he had recognised her and had renewed his offer. She took advantage of this to ask him when he had arrived in Padua, and he said he had come on 29th March, and that he had not visited Padua before for several years.

"This proves that the dream occurred two days before the arrival of the person implicated, and that consequently it could not have resulted from a mere sensorial impression of Signa. Marias."

The following belongs to the same class of apparently meaningless premonitions.

Mrs. Atlay writes to me thus: -

"My dream was as follows:-

"I dreamt that the bishop being from home, we were unable to have family prayers as usual in the chapel, but that I read them in the large hall of the palace, out of which, on one side, a door opens into the dining-room. In my dream, prayers being ended, I left the hall, opened the dining-room door and there saw, to my horror, standing between the table and the sideboard, an enormous pig. The dream was very vivid and amused me much. The bishop being from home, when dressed I went down into the hall to read prayers. The servants had not come in, so I told my governess and children who were already there, about my dream, which amused them as much as it had done me. The servants came in and I read prayers, after which the party dispersed. I opened the dining-room door, where to my amazement, stood the pig in the very spot in which I had seen him in my dream. With regard to your question as to whether I could have heard the pig in my sleep, he was then safely in his sty and my room is quite on the other side of the house, a large hall dividing our side from the servants' side of the house, behind which, in a yard, was the pig - sty.

It got into the dining-room in consequence of the gardener being engaged in cleaning out the sty while the servants were at prayers; they having left every door open, the pig met with no obstacle on his voyage of discovery.

"Fanny P. Atlay."

The facts of the case have the following short but sufficient corroboration:-

"I heard Mrs. Atlay tell the dream when she came in to the hall before prayers. (Precise dates not remembered - a few years ago.)

"Emily Nimmo, "Governess"

In reply to my inquiry whether the pig might not have escaped before the dream and have given some indication of proximity to Mrs. Atlay's bedroom window, that lady informed me that he only got loose while she was reading prayers; the gardeners who had been cleaning his sty having left it imperfectly secured.

The sty was at a considerable distance from the palace. The date of the incident was a few years before the record, but cannot be precisely ascertained.

The next case which I shall quote is, I think, almost unique in our collection in this respect - that the premonition seems to work its own fulfilment, by suggesting the one course of action which, as it happened, would bring about the dreaded experience. It is of course possible that the coincidence may have been accidental. Mrs. C. says she is rather a frequent dreamer, although few of her dreams make so strong an impression as the one which I quote, with the exception of another involving a similar coincidence which I omit for want of space.

Mrs. C. writes a letter, dated 29th February, 1888, from Holland Road, Kensington:-

"I have an intense horror of monkeys, - I seldom look at one if I can help it - they are objects of such antipathy to me; and I dreamed that I was persistently followed by one such as I had never seen before, but which terrified me extremely and from which I could not escape.