The Arkansas banner., 1849-06-05
Romance in Reality.


 Ihe following happy illustration Of story ofthe Arabian Nights by the inventions Of the present day IS from lecture by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, ol Boston,
 Open that volume of enchantInent, the Arabian Nights, to the story of Prince Ahmed and the fairy pari Banou. The Sultan has promised the delicious Princess NouronDihar--the Light Of the Day''-in marriage to one among his three sons who should bring him the most extraordinary rarity. Houssian hnds apiece ofcaipet upon which one may he tTsns- ported n an instant wherever he desires to be with out being stopped by any obstacle.
 All purchases tube, which renders visible tbe most distant objects persons. by looking in one end oi v. Ahmed obtains an artificial apple, which cures all sick persons after the easiest manner in the world merely by the patients smelling it.
 hey meet to eompare their treasures. Honssian !akes Ans tube. desiring 10 the lovely princess one appears. bhi surrounded by her weeping women and almost ready 10 breathe her last. The three pro'he's get instantly upon Houssan caIpet and are transported 10 her chamber. Prince Ahmed, says me story, rose from the tapestry went to the bed t'de' and put the sppte beneath her nostrils In a ie" moments the princess rose, and asked 10 be dressed @iih the same freedom and recollection as h she had awakened ont of a sound sleep.
 This is the dream of oriental fancy. As you are smiling over its childish exfratagaRee, messenger Suddenly appears and puts slip of paper in your nand' Alas! your own Nouronnihar-the light of your day-iar away beyoLd the iair Hudson or the "'osd cusqueHahha is even now m the extremity Oi suffering and danger A magic, as wonderful as that oi Ans tube, brings her image before you, and O'eathes her s'gh of anguish upon your ear almost as II issties from her pale and trembling lips "Oh Tor The carpet Of Houssan." It is before you root over II, walls round if, windows in them, through w"'eh ycu see the panorama like landscape as you ny aiong rocks and hills, helds and trees flowing in n'oad torrents on each side of you, if the great wave which they say passed the continent were sweeping by you with its whole freight of drift and bouiders.
 You are there. 0, for the apple of Ahmed to s"o'h The bangs that are convulsing the delicate irame before you. little flask is placed in your nand; ifutn lis mouth exhales sweet odor as fl the richest fruits of the orchard had yielded t all their Penume. Go to her bedside, like Ahmed, and let nef inhale It's virtues for lew moments The deep a.rows .'i oi pain grow smooth upon her Iehe ad ue Nnoted imbs relax and fall passive as in slum- "e' Her iips are movingl they seem 10 say
 "Wha' IS this dissoves me quite,
 n'eais my senses, shuts my sight,
 browns my spirit draws my breadth
 Ten me my soul, can this be deathi"
 It may be that in this shadowy eclipse of though and sen .aon the exhausted lamp of nature shall b, feplenished, and that when the soul returns tc th. temple it seems to have quilted it shall find all it Chambers Irradiated with the rekndling glow oflfe
 How strange that civilization should cali out, a paipabie realities of our own every day existence the ereaii.ns which were the idle dreams of story teilers oH the banks of the Bosphorus and th Euphrates!