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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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"Another
of
the
Christian
friends
from
whom,
in
his
later
years,
William
Hone
received
so
much
kindness,
has
also
furnished
recollections
of
him.
"
.
.
.
Two
or
three
anecdotes
which
he
related
are
all
I
can
contribute
towards
a
piece
of
mental
history
which,
if
preserved,
would
have
been
highly
interesting.
The
first
in
point
of
time
as
to
his
taste
of
mind,
was
a
circumstance
which
shook
his
confidence
in
materialism,
though
it
did
not
lead
to
his
conversion.
It
was
one
of
those
mental
phenomena
which
he
saw
to
be
inexplicable
by
the
doctrines
he
then
held.
"It
was
as
follows:
He
was
called
in
the
course
of
business
into
a
part
of
London
quite
new
to
him,
and
as
he
walked
along
the
street
he
noticed
to
himself
that
he
had
never
been
there;
but
on
being
shown
into
a
room
in
a
house
where
he
had
to
wait
some
time,
he
immediately
fancied
that
it
was
all
familiar,
that
he
had
seen
it
before,
'and
if
so,'
said
he
to
himself,
'there
is
a
very
peculiar
knot
in
this
shutter'.
He
opened
the
shutter
and
found
the
knot.
'Now
then,'
thought
he,
'here
is
something
I
cannot
explain
on
my
principles!'"
Indeed
the
occurrence
is
not
very
explicable
on
any
principles,
as
a
detail
not
visible
without
search
was
sought
and
verified,
and
that
by
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.
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