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other situation than transfixed with grief for the fate of her children, whereas Hebe can be placed in a thousand situations for which the former would be unfit.
The Author ought to apologize for delaying the course of his subjects, by observations that may appear unnecessary, but as he knows the improving spirit of the ingenious may urge them to alterations to benefit the system, which he is as anxious to see as any other person; he wishes to remove every obstacle to an object so desirable, by pointing out the motives that directed him, that they may not mistake change for improvement, by adopting arrangements that may appear simple, without being powerful,
He cannot, however, dismiss this part of the subject, without observing, that as it is decidedly essential for mne-monicians to be able to describe the symbols, and refer to them without any pause or delay; he knows no arrangement so well calculated to effect it, as the one he has chosen—to have the symbols at the same time numerals—for they can always recollect, or they ought to recollect, the consonants that belong to the figures, which at once presents to their mind any symbol they require : thus if they were asked the name of their thirty-fifth symbol, they know that it will be found ideally depicted on their third wall, fifth place; where, if they took any pains to imagine it, they are sure to find it: but in default of this, if it were a mere arbitrary picture, they might be at a loss: But, by the present arrangement, they may or may not refer to their wall, and with a rapidity of mind, far outstripping that mode, they resolve the figures 3 and 5 into m and l, which directly presents Milo to their view; and in like manner with every other.
Before the students attempt to apply the arrangements of the next chapter, they ought to be tolerably well acquainted with at least ten of the symbols, but a greater number would be desirable.
