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Show Learning Forms by Heart. Sidney Woollett, the New York elocutionist, elo-cutionist, says that the way memory can be trained is by constant exercise. T know thirteen of Shakespeare's plays and Tennyson's idyls by heart, besides a volume of miscellaneous poetry. My process was simple: I went hard to work and learned them by rote. Sometimes I would read ton lines over carefully several times and then attempt to ropeat them. If I failed I would keep at them until I knew the lines perfectly, then I would try ten lines more, By memorizing ten lines at a time thoroughly I had little trouble to repeat an entire poem of 1,000 lines or more. "My favorite way of memorizing is while I am walking. Often I have walked fifteen or twonty miles repeating repeat-ing long poems like 'Miles Standish,' Enoch Ardon' and 'Klaino.' It somehow some-how comes natural for mo to memorize memo-rize while walking. I seem to remember re-member better what I have conned. Shukospoare's plays are difficult to memorize because the author has so many striking lines and so many original orig-inal characters. Naturally it is mora difficult to recite dramas than poems. If I happen to mako tho slightest mistake mis-take in reading my linos I hear from it, so lam careful to know what I recite re-cite perfectly." |