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Where the very birds seem affrighted as if I were their bitterest foe,
Why, this anxious watching, for some long lost friendly face?
Why, these agonising tears this crushing unrelenting woe.
To the suggestives of the first line, think of an Isle upon which there is a solitary "Tree" which is the first position; to the second, think that the birds are affrighted because they know the "Lion' to be their bitterest foe. To the third, think of anxiously watching for a friendly face from the door of your "House;" to the fourth, think of a poor man in agony who through being crushed at the "Mill" has much woe. When you wish to recall any portion of the subject that has been located convey your imagination to that position that you have placed it in, and if your association has been perfect, you are sure to think of it again.
SYNOPSIS.
When you desire to commit any subject to memory, ask yourself the mental question to "what class do the ideas belong." If unfamiliar, make them more familiar; if familiar, connect one familiar to the other. If you deal with words, make them more familiar by a similar sound; if with figures, use the "Mnemonical Alphabet;" if with foreign alphabets, trade marks, or any difficult signs, make the one which you do not know resemble one which you do, by "asking your-
