nd let loose, the one caught a hare, while the other
yelped and ran away. So the word _handy_, in old English _hend_,
meaning quick, alert, or gifted with prompt perception, is derived
from knowing how to use the hands. BRUSONIUS ("Facetiae," Lyons, 1562)
has collected a great number of classic anecdotes to illustrate this
saying.

_Recapitulation_. Those who desire to become artists, can greatly
facilitate their work, if beginning for example with very simple
outline decorative designs, and having learned the principles on which
they are constructed, they would repeat or revise them to themselves
before sleep, resolving to remember them. The same principle is
applicable to all kinds of designs, with the proviso that they be at
first very easy. This is generally a very successful process.

_Fore thought_, or the projection of conception or attention with
will, is a marvelous preparation for all kinds of art work. He who can
form the habit of seeing a picture mentally before he paints it, has
an incredible advantage, and will spare himself much labor and
painting out.

CHAPTER IX.

FASCINATION.

"Quaerit _Franciscus Valesius, Delrio, Gutierrus_, et alii,
unde vulgaris ilia fascini nata sit opinio de oculo fascinante
visione et ore fascinando laudando."--De Faseinatione
Fatatus. A. D. 1677.

I have in Chapter Fifth mentioned several of the subjects to attain
which the Will may be directed by the aid of self-hypnotism, preceded
by Forethought. If the reader has carefully studied what I have said
and not merely skimmed it, he must have perceived that if the power be
fully acquired, it makes, as it were, new existence for its possessor,
opening to him boundless fields of action by giving him the enviable
power to acquire interest--that is to say agreeable or profitable
occupation--in whatever he pleases. In further illustration of which I
add the following:

_To recall bygone memories or imperfectly remembered sensations,
scenes and experiences or images_.

This is a difficult thing to describe, and no wonder, since it forms
the greatest and most trying task of all poets to depict that which
really depends for its charm on association, emotion and a chiaroscuro
of the feelings. We have all delightful reminiscences which make
ridiculous Dante's assertion that

"There is no greater grief than to recall in pain
The happy days gone by;"

which, if true, would make it a matter of regret