_improved in the highest degree_ by _making_ and _memorising_
correlations, because in _making_ them the _reviving_ power of the
memory is exercised in conformity to Memory's own laws; and in
_memorising_ the Correlations both stages of memory are most vividly
impressed. Thus, making and memorising the Correlations TRAINS both
Memory and Continuity. And if to this training process there be added
the habit of Assimilation which the use of the Analytic-Synthetic and
Interrogative Analysis Methods of learning Prose and Poetry by heart
imparts, as well as my other training methods, then the NEW memory thus
acquired _will not demand the further use of the System any more than
the adult swimmer will need the plank by which as a boy he learned to
swim_.

1. What new burden do they impose on the memory?
2. What do I require from my pupils?
3. To what is the first intermediate connected?
4. Through what?
5. How do I deal with the other intermediates?
6. What is a memory process?
7. Is the memory used to help the memory in any way?
8. Do I add anything to the extremes?
9. Is memory improved by exercise?
10. When is the System laid aside?

LEARNING FOREIGN WORDS.

"The Guide to Memory, or a New and Complete Treatise of Analogy between
the French and English Languages," compiled by Charles Turrell,
Professor of Languages, and published in 1828, contains the words which
are the _same_ in each language (alphabet, banquet, couplet, &c.), and
those almost the same--"Letters necessary in English, and superfluous in
French, are included in a parenthesis, thus Bag(g)age. Letters necessary
in French, and superfluous in English are printed in Italics, thus
Hom_m_age." At first sight it seems as if this plan were a good one (and
some still recommend it[H]). But of the words which are the same in both
languages, some of them have meanings one rarely if ever needs to
express, while others are seldom seen except in Dictionaries, so the
student who uses this method does not make much _useful_ progress. The
Rev. W. Healy, of Johnstown (Kilkenny), long before he had finished my
course of lessons, stated: "_I wrote out the French words that
correspond to the English of everything around us and that are in common
use, and found that by the aid of Rec. Syn. I could commit them much
faster than the time taken to write them out._"

[H] The "New Memory-Aiding French Vocabulary" by Albert Tondu, published
by Hachet