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Systematic Memory.

TO COMMIT BIBLE TEXTS TO MEMORY.

Join the letter or letters indicating the chapter to the name of the book, or part of it. [Pages 42 and 45.]

Gen-ial laws = Genesis i. 10.
Leav-en dough = Leviticus ii. 7.
Judge not = Judges viii. 27.

If possible, let the name of the book and the chapter be indicated by one word.

GRAMMAR, GEOGRAPHY, BOTANY, ETC.

The acquisition of these and various other branches of knowledge is facilitated by the use of homophonic analogies, that is, by employing words of a somewhat similar sound. [Pages 41, 45.] Foreign alphabets are acquired by comparing the letters with certain objects which they more or less resemble in appearance.

CHEMISTRY.

Simply translate the combining properties, or atomic measurement, into letters and words; then proceed as in learning verses.

TO REMEMBER A VARIETY OF ERRANDS, MESSAGES, ETC.

Associate the suggestive words in your list with the words given below from the memory table, and proceed as in the plan given for committing verses to memory.

PEGS. MESSAGE. PICTURES.
Law Go to the hairdresser Fix in your mind the association of "law" and "hairdresser" by thinking of a lawyer's wig.