method was virtually the same as Winckelmann's, the keys being alike. Consonants represented numerals, and were, with the vowels, used to form words.
Another work was published in English in 1683, entitled "The Divine Art of Memory; or the Sum of the Holy Scriptures Delivered in Acrostic Verses," being a translation by Simon Wastel, a Northampton schoolmaster, of the Latin work of the Rev. John Shaw, at one time vicar of Woking. The Bible is here epitomized in a series of verses, the first letter of each verse running alphabetically. The following is a specimen:—
Another curious work, of which a second-hand copy may at the present day be occasionally picked up, was published in 1697. It is entitled "The Art of Memory. A Treatise useful for all, especially such as are to speak in Publick," by Marius D'Assigny, B.D. The book, which is dedicated to the "young students of both Universities," smacks of the pulpit and is rather heavy reading. Twenty-two pages are devoted to the dedication; eighteen more to a disquisition on the soul or spirit of man; and about seventy pages to the subject proper, the major portion of which is abstracted from the "Castel of Memorie," previously noticed. A chapter is devoted to particulars of things likely to assist in comforting the memory. These things are liniments, an ointment, sneezing powders, and plasters. D'Assigny, like many other old writers, dwells largely upon the ill effects of "the ill fumes of the stomach" ascending
