Predictions Realized in Modern Times, Collected by Horace Welby

Predictions Realized In Modern Times, Collected By Horace Welby is a sprawling, antiquarian compendium of prophecies, foreshadowings, and supposed predictions from antiquity to the 19th century, gathered and arranged by Horace Welby. The work surveys a vast range of material—from almanacs, astrologers, and conjurers to Scriptural prophecies and legendary omens—carefully illustrating how supposed predictions have been claimed to foretell political upheavals, wars, revolutions, inventions, and natural events. The text moves through major thematic sections, including Days and Numbers, Prophesying Almanacs, Omens, Historical Predictions, The Bonaparte Family, Discoveries and Inventions Anticipated, and Scriptural Prophecies, interleaving quotations, anecdotes, and critical notes. Welby’s compilation preserves the flavour of Victorian-era curiosity about occultism, prophecy, and the interface between superstition and modernization, while presenting examples, counterexamples, and commentary on how such forecasts fared in the light of later events. The volume also showcases contemporary reviews and promotional material surrounding its 1862 edition in London.