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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...author presents in this book a "complete and practical system of developing and confirming the memory." His scheme of mnemonics is based upon the psychological explanation of the faculty of memory. The four faculties which are especially to be cultivated by this scheme are concentration of attention, retention of the impression, reproduction and localization. Carrying out this main idea the author has constructed a number of ingenious tables or series of related objects, joining them together by what he calls "links of suggestion." These tables are to be memorized by general training. In memorizing selections of prose, the plan...
This is a comprehensive text-book of Psychology, intended to be used by beginners in the study, and especially in high and normal schools. Such being the purpose, its scope is necessarily limited and its treatment is very general. The chief merit of the book is its admirable conciseness and clearness. Even to advanced students it will prove valuable as a ready hand-book of definitions. The subject is treated in a strictly systematic way, the method being first to give a definition, then a brief elaboration, and lastly a simple illustration. The author lays no claim to originality...
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...BUNKER, Sec.Will all those who are going to the interscholastic dinner at the Boston Tavern, May 30, sign the book at Leavitt and Peirces at once. The book will be taken away Tuesday morning...
...LANE.Will all those who are going to the interscholastic dinner at the Boston Tavern, May 30, sign the book at Leavitt and Peirces at once. The book will be taken away Tuesday morning...