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Show Ilow tSlrtngthD Moruory. Tho rules tor the improvement of the memory of persons in adult years, may be chit fly referred to under tho following heads: I The cultivation of the habit of attention, or intense application of the mind to whatever is at the time its more immediate object of pursuit. 2. Habits of correct association. These consist in the constant practice prac-tice of tracing the relation between new fact? and ethers with which wo are previously acquainted; and of referring farts to principals which they are calculated to illustrate, illus-trate, or to opini-T.3 which they tend to con linn, modify or Overturn. Over-turn. 3. Intimately connected with both the fovmer rules is the cultivation culti-vation of that active, inquiring state of mind which is always on the watch for knowledge ir mi every source that c -mcs .viibi:i i'3 n .v:h, either in reuUi!t:, converi'dou or oberv;U. 4. M- thod: Tiu.l 7 i lie purs.u: of partic uiar . bj. cts u; a regtuar and eonnecU'"! pian. F.y.. , |