history, but to enchain and fix the fleeting visions of the moment,—those passing incidents which interest, amuse, or instruct us. "The sacred treasure of the past," is not the only "substantial shadow," which will be registered in our ideal repository. We shall be enabled to arrange future events, and thus have an orderly disposition of every circumstance of business or pleasure, in which we may be engaged. In this repository may be placed passing events, those already entombed in the grave of time, and those which are yet to seek the same sepulchre. Our ideal almanack will enable us not only to register appointments—but to enrol the payment of bills and other mercantile concerns. To the diarist it will be a never failing source of profitable instruction and amusement.
To fix the events of a whole year more places are required. Our year is divided into months, weeks, and days; and into four seasons. Every room has four sides. Every season contains three months, and each wall contains three stripes. (See Plate I. fig. 10.) The months are named first, second, third, fourth, and so on; on each stripe are the days of the month, and consequently a sufficient number of squares or places, in which the facts and events may be arranged. To remember the first, second, and third months, the figures may be changed into
