xtremes (words, &c., of your own selection, or) names and faces
of your own acquaintances.

_Peculiarity._ _Correlation._ _Proper Names._

Cross-eyed Cross-bow ... bowman Mr. Archer
Wavy hair dancing wave ... Morris dance Mr. Morrison
Black eyes white ... snow ... pure as snow Mr. Virtue
Retreating chin retiring ... home-bird Mr. Holmes
High instep high boots ... mud ... peat Mr. Peat
Crooked legs broken legs ... crushed Mr. Crushton
Apprehension suspension ... gallows Mr. Galloway
Sombre sad ... mourning ... hat-band Mr. Hatton
Music stave ... bar Mr. Barcroft
Violinist violin ... high note ... whistle Mr. Birtwistle
Painter paint ... colored cards ... whist Mr. Hoyle
Plumber plum-pudding ... victuals Mr. Whittles
Joiner wood ... ash Mr. Ashworth

1. Is it ever possible to remember two extremes without thinking of
the intermediates?
2. In what cases?
3. What did Dr. Johnson sometimes do when introduced to a stranger?
4. What sometimes occurs with people who have adopted the
Johnsonian Method?
5. Why is this?
6. As Max Mueller names mental acts in this order: Sensation,
Perception, Conception, Naming, and Memory, would he hold that
failure to remember names implies weakness of naming power? No!
Remembering a name is an act wholly unlike imposing a name in
the first instance. Such failure arises from weakness of the
auditory function, or of the perception of individual
peculiarities or failure of the sight-image to become cemented
to the sound image.

=A CONTRAST.=--When unconnected ideas have to be united in the memory so
that hereafter one will recall the other, the teachers of other Memory
Systems say: "What can I invent to tie them together--what story can I
contrive--what foreign extraneous matter can I introduce--what mental
picture can I imagine, no matter how unnatural or false the
juxtaposition may be, or what argument or comparison can I originate--no
matter how far-fetched and fanciful it may be, to help hold these
'Extremes' together?" They do not reflect that all these mnemonical
outside and imported schemes must _also