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MARvELLoUs-A French Sdrdnt, at Dion, went one
night quite exhausted to bed after long and vain ef
forts to make out the sense of passage In Greek
poet On falling asleep, he seemed TO himself to be
transported in spirit to Stockholm where he was con-
Quoted into the palace of Queen Christina usheTed n
to the royal library, and placed before compartment
in which he distinguished a small volume that bore
title new to him. He opened the volume, and found


the solution of the grammatical difficulty which bad
perpexed him. The Joy which he felt at this Disco
very awakng him, be struck a light and made me-
morandum of what he had seen in his dream. The
dark passage he now found perfectly cleared up.
The adventure, however, was too strange to suffer
him to rest satisfied without taking some steps to
ascertain in how far the impression of his nocturnal
journal correspohded with the reality. Descartes
was that time at Stockholm, and our saralt
wrote to Chanut, the French ambassador to the
Swedish court, with whom he was acquainted, re-
questing him to ask the philosopher whether the royal
library had such and such peculiarities, (Which he
described,) and WHETHER In certain compartment,
certain volume OF such size and form, was not to
be found on such and such page of which stood ten
Greek verses, copy of which the Sauant subOined
Descartes answered the ambassador that unless the
querist had been in the habit of visiting the library
for the last twenty years, he could scarcely have de-
scrbed its arrangements accurately: the compar
ment, the voume the ten Greek verses, all tailed
actly with the description. counterpart this sto-
ry is related by Wangenheim.


The of a Wirtemburg iurist was studying at
Gottngen and, having occasion for book which he
could not find in the library there and which he
menbered to have seen at home, wrote to request his
father 10 send him the The father searched his
library for the book in vain it not to be found,
and he wrote to his son to that effect. Some time af
ter, as he at work in his library, and from
his seat to replace book which he had done with
on its shelf, he beheld his standing not far from
him, and in the act, it seemed, of reaching down
book which stood at considerable height, and ON
lXvhi of
laid My :" cried the astonshed father, " how
came you here :" As he spoke the apparton vanish
ed The father, whose presence of mind was not dis
turbed, Immediately took down the book which the
hand of the figure had seemed to be laid and behold il
was the very one his son had written for He sent il
by that days post to Gottingen, but after recev-
ed letter from his son. written the very morning
ON which he had the apparition, and stating the
exact spot where the writer confident the book
to be found It is unnecessary to say it was the
very spot which the appariton had already indicated


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