system is not only adapted to the higher studies, but is applicable to the very first elements of learning, and is of no less use to the child than to the scholar. Sufficient of it has been experienced here to convince all the profession, that it is infinitely superior to any former mode of instruction, and that its advantages are very great indeed."
The truth of these observations seems now pretty generally acknowledged; and the time is not far distant when ample justice will be done to the merits of this useful system of memory. It is highly gratifying to hear that a Society of Gentlemen, in Dublin, have formed an establishment for the education of youth on the system of M. Feinaigle. They have taken two contiguous houses near Mountjoy-square, and they announce in their prospectus "that the emoluments arising from the Institution (save one half to the Professor for his life) are to form a fund for the promotion and extension of the object of education upon this plan; that with them there can be no consideration of profit, inasmuch as by the Deed of Trust, they can merely enjoy legal interest for the money advanced, and, that in founding a seminary under such circumstances, they have been solely influenced by a conviction, derived from personal observation, and the experience already had in the College of Ampleforth."
The Committee announced, that they would, on the first Monday in September, under the auspices of Professor Von Feinaigle, and well qualified Assistants, instructed by him, commence the education of youth, on a plan, of which the following is an outline:
Supposing the youth capable of reading and writing, and of an age not under nine years, the Pro-
