ADVERTISEMENT
to the
SECOND EDITION.
IF the sale of a book be any criterion of its merit, the present work must stand high in the opinion of the public, as a large impression has been disposed of, in the short space of four months. The general utility, indeed, of this 'New Art of Memory,' needed only to be known to be properly estimated and successfully practised.
The appearance of such a system as this, has produced (as might naturally be expected) many imitators. The merit of having improved upon the original plan of M. Feinaigle, does not, however, appear to belong to any of these persons; for the editor is enabled to state, without fear of refutation, that either an attendance upon M. Feinaigle's lectures, or indeed the former edition of this book, has furnished more than the outlines of those systems which were so recently taught in the metropolis. The diagrams, indeed, distributed to the pupils who attended these lectures were, evidently, copied from those of M. Feinaigle. The hieroglyphics, it is true, were changed, but the principles and the practice of the art were precisely the same.
The chief peculiarities which distinguish this edition from that which preceded it, are the following:—
