4. There is prefixed to the present edition, a Portrait of M. Von Feinaigle, the accuracy of which may be relied on.
Having stated the chief advantages of this edition, the editor will proceed to offer some observations upon the importance and general utility of the present New Art of Memory. And, here, he cannot refrain from strongly recommending it to the especial notice of all Tutors and Instructors of Youth. The revival of the antient mnemonics seems to have formed a new æra in the annals of education:—it must, therefore, deeply interest every one who is concerned in so important an office. Let the system be impartially examined and properly practised, and there will be no need of a herald to proclaim its merits.
The general utility of the present work, must be obvious to every one; but the peculiar advantages which it offers to the Senator, the Divine, the Barrister, the Merchant, and the Man of Business, are evident, even from a casual examination of the system. In short, what was said of Schenckel's method is equally applicable to the present. Speaking of the importance of his mnemonics to the legal man, he says, 'The Attorney who has many causes to conduct, may, by the assistance of this art, imprint them so strongly upon his memory, that he will have an answer ready for his clients, at any hour, with as much precision, as if he had just perused the whole of the papers relative to each cause. In pleading, the Barrister will not only have the evidence and reasoning of his own party at his fingers' ends, but all the grounds and refutation of his antagonist.'
Were the editor to enlarge upon the general usefulness of the 'New Art of Memory,' it would be
