mbers" which Macready proposed, and which
is really _not a genuine In. by sound_, is of little service to a poor
memory. A Correlation would have been much better.

To any conceivable "_Isolated Fact_" you can find a _Best Known_ to
which you can correlate it, and thereby always have it at command. This
is true, even in cases of _anticipatory_ memory. Instead of tying a
string round your finger to remind you to buy something when you get to
the bazaar, and when you get there forgetting to notice the string or
forgetting what the string was intended to remind you of, correlate the
name of what you wish to purchase to the name of something you are sure
to _think_ of at the place you are going to, and memorise the
Correlation. When you see the _Best Known_, the thing you correlated to
it will at once occur to mind. I will add only one more illustration:--A
commercial traveller was in the habit of putting his watch under his
pillow, and also in the habit of forgetting that he put it there! After
losing two watches in this way, he came to me to improve his memory, and
asked me if my System could aid him to think of his watch and where he
had put it. "Infallibly," I replied, "if there is anything you can
mention which you are _certain_ to think of when you get up, such as
boots, trousers, hat, &c." "There is one thing," he rejoined, "I am more
certain to think of than any article of clothing. I always think what a
shame it is I have to get up." "Well, you are sure to think of the words
'get up;' that then is your _Best Known_. Correlate the word 'watch' to
it ... thus: 'GET UP'--Spring up--Watch Spring--WATCH." After a tour
of four months he reported he had always thought of his watch the moment
he awoke.

SPEAKING WITHOUT WRITTEN OR PRINTED NOTES.

After the clergyman has decided on his text, or the speaker on any
subject he has selected for his special topic, the next step is to
_think it out_--to make his plan--his mode of development of his
ideas--their order and sequence, illustrations, &c. All this will
constitute an outline--the SKELETON OF THE DISCOURSE. This should
usually be _committed to paper_. If he possesses the requisite command
of language to enable him to express his views, all he now requires to
do is to _thoroughly memorise_ this Skeleton.

When this is done, the orator will have no occasion to have any notes
_before him to refer to_, and thereby to remind his audience that he is
merely rehearsing fer