with such perfection, that I could for years afterwards specify the number of the book on hearing the proposition named, and could recite the proposition on hearing the number and the book; and I have frequently, in mixed companies, repeated backwards and forwards from fifty to an hundred unconnected words, which have been but once called over to me. I may also add, to prove the simplicity of the plan, that I taught two of my own children to repeat fifty unconnected words in a first lesson, of not more than half an hour's continuance."
M. Von Feinaigle visited England sometime in the early part of 1811. In order to exhibit a detail of his progresses in this country, we have made some extracts from the Periodical Works and Public Papers which gave an account of his various experiments.
"On the 22d of June, 1811 , M. Von Feinaigle[1] gave at the Royal Institution, a public experiment of the efficacy of his Method of facilitating and assisting Memory. The Managers of the Institution, in consequence of the application of the Committee of Literature and Science, granted permission for this public display of the art, without, however, making themselves in any way responsible as to its character. The
- ↑ Gent. Mag. vol. lxxxi. part 1. p. 281.
