How plainly one catches through the words of the last speaker an eager prescience of events to come!the sweep of General Gough on Warlencourt and Bapaumethe French reoccupation of Péronne.

General Allenby gave the fullest consideration to this document, and after he had made as complete an examination of the front as any Commander-in-Chief ever undertookthe General was in one or other sector with his troops almost every day for four monthsGeneral Chetwode's plan was adopted, and full credit was given to his prescience in General Allenby's despatch covering the operations up to the fall of Jerusalem.

Some found their Prescience on the Lines of a Man's Hand, others on the Features of his Face; some on the Signatures which Nature has impressed on his Body, and others on his own Hand-Writing: Some read Men's Fortunes in the Stars, as others have searched after them in the Entrails of Beasts, or the Flights of Birds.