'There are many cases on record of heat and cold producing dreams, mentioned by writers as early as Macrobius, and some of our modern physiologists have made observations of a similar kind. A literary man, who had a most sensitive organization, related a rather amusing instance of the effects of cold, in suggesting a most annoying adventure to one of his thin-skinned tendency. He thus describes it: - " The other morning my wife rose very early, and being unwell, I decided to take another turn, and soon fell asleep, but so imperfectly that a succession of dreams haunted my imagination. One of them I submit to you as an interpreter of these phantasmata. I thought that the butcher had sent a joint different from the one we required, and that I determined to go back with it myself, when, to my horror, a number of persons followed me, and seemed discussing the point whether or not I was demented. 'Surely,' says one, 'he must be so, to go out without stockings this bitterly cold, frosty morning!' 'Has he been drinking?' said another; 'for a more robust man than he is could not be guilty of such an act with' impunity!' Great was the sense of shame which oppressed me as I hurried on, not daring to face my censors, and thought to escape them, when I heard some her mind as to the reality of her painful vision: as . she gradually gained more complete consciousness, she ascertained that her own hand rested on her nose, and had affected, temporarily, the circulation, occasioning her much pain in the nasal organ. This circumstance had evidently been the predisposing cause of the dream.' - Journal of Psychological Medicne,-vol. ix., Oct., 1856.