Dr. Holbrook's How to Strengthen the Memory is a popular hand-book, with no pretensions as a system, but quotes freely the best authorities.
Kay's Memory: What It is, and How to improve It, the last fourth of which deals with the cultivation of the memory, might more appropriately be called a Cyclopædia of Memory; so replete is it with information on every conceivable topic connected with memory. The author's broad scholarship and discriminating judgment were never more successfully enlisted. The Westminster Review calls it an "excellent, especially erudite, and for the most part thoroughly scientific treatise on Memory."
Loisette Exposed gave the entire "Loisette" System verbatim, that the public might judge of its merits for themselves. A comparison with works long antedating it showed conclusively the absurdity of the claims of the "sole originator, proprietor, and teacher thereof." The author of Loisette Exposed claimed the right to reprint the "Loisette" System on the ground that the author of it had lost his common law right by publication without copyright. And it is believed that the final decision of the courts would have upheld this claim. As a literary production Loisette Exposed would have fared badly at the hands of the critics, bearing as it did such evident marks of haste, more time seeming to have been spent in collating facts than in giving the work literary finish.
Viewed, however, from the standpoint of its aims and the results of its brief career it may fairly be called a success.
| Cicero: De Ret., lib. iii., cap. 16-24; De Orat., lib. ii., cap. 87, 88. | |
| Quintilian: Inst. Orat., lib. xi., сар 2. | |
| Pliny: Natural History, lib. vii., cap. 24. | |
| Martianus, Capella: Cap. De Memoria, lib. v. | |
| Ammianus, Marcellinus: lib. xvi., cap. 5. | |
| 1274(?). | Roger Bacon: Tractatus de Arte Memorativa. MS. at Oxford. P |
| 1325. | Thomæ Bradwardini Ars Memorativa. MS. in British Museum. F. |
| 1430. | Ars Memorandi Notabilis per Figuras Evangelistarum vel Memoriale quatuor Evangelistarum. Small Fol. This is supposed to be the first attempt towards a system of superficial memory. B. B. |
