To you, my gentle reader, I wish to say a foreword

of warning before you peruse the contents of this book.

I am not a poet nor a scholar, therefore you shall find neither

poems nor prose. Just dreams - Day Dreams - a bit of

romance, a bit of sentimentalism, a bit of philosophy, not

studied, but acquired by constant observation of that greatest

of masters! . . . Nature!

While lying idle, not through choice, but because forcibly

kept from my preferred and actual field of activity, I took

to dreams to forget the tediousness of worldly strife and the

boredom of jurisprudence's pedantic etiquette.

Happy indeed I shall be if my Day Dreams will bring

you as much enjoyment in the reading as they brought to

me in the writing.

Rudolph Valentino