7 SEPTEMBER 1895, Page 16

A PHYSICIAN ON " DREAMY MENTAL STATES."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—In your interesting criticism in the Spectator of August 31st, of Sir James Crichton Browne's Lecture, you very probably had in mind that fine couplet of Waller's :—

" The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,

Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made."

But if not, you may care to have it recalled to your memory,