is generally thought, and that this connection may help to explain them. However the case may be, this singular art, so long neglected, has reappeared in Germany with some eclat. M. Aretin, who may be accounted the restorer of it, has recently had M. Kæstner, a clergyman, as his pupil, whom he has permitted to teach his new doctrine at Leipzic; at the same time exacting a promise from him not to suffer his pupils to write own his lectures. M. Kæstner travels about like Dr. Gall.
"According to a book written, it is said, by a child of twelve years of age, and mentioned in the Leipzic catalogue for the last September fair, mnemonica is a true science, and may be taught by means of seventeen different rules, and which will give a memory to individuals of every age."
In March 1807, M. Gregor Von Feinaigle, a native of Baden, visited Paris, and delivered Lectures on his 'New System of Mnemonics and Methodics.' In the Philosophical Magazine for June, 1807,[1] there is the following extract from a letter written by M. Fichtel, at Paris, to a friend in London, giving some account of M. Gregor Von Feinaigle's exhibitions there.
- ↑ Vol. xxviii. p. 92.
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