How to Improve the Memory/Preface
PREFACE
IN offering this system of memory training to the public the author frankly states that it is not a secret that is imparted for so many dollars, nor one that can be obtained without labor. It is intended to show how the mind can be strengthened so as to enable it to perceive, retain, and reproduce incidents that have passed; how words, dates, facts, and pictures may be stored away in the brain and recalled at pleasure; how by a right use of the mental power memory can be made to perform wonderful feats.
There is no reason why it should take a public speaker ten times longer to memorize his speech than it does to write it, nor is there any reason why matter once committed to memory should speedily be forgotten.
The author has devoted a lifetime to the training of orators and actors, and this system of memory training, now given for the first time to the public, has been the growth of years, and been thoroughly tested by him on vast numbers of students. He therefore offers it to all who desire to possess a good memory with the assurance that their wish can be gratified by a faithful study of these pages.