Show WONDERFUL FEATS OF MEMORY some clodt have a facility for certain classes of cartr among those who have performed great feats of memory cassella Cass ellb family magazine mentions dr fuller author of the worthies of england lie could repeat another mans sermon after hearing it once and could repeat five hundred words in an unknown language after hearing them twice lie one day undertook to walk from temple bar to the farthest end of cheapside Cheap sido and to repeat on liis return every feign on either side of the way in the order of their occurrence and ho did it easily lu such feats aa this the eye plays a chief part yet blind people also have good memories rev II 11 J johns chaplain of the blind asylum london that a large number of pupils learn the psalter and that one young man was there who could repeat not only the whole of the one hundred and fifty of alie prayer book psalms and a large number of metrical psalms and hymns as well as a considerable amount of modern poetry including goldsmiths deserted village but the whole of mil tons paradise lost with marginal notes and a biography lord macaulay on one occasion repeated to himself alic whole of paradise lost crossing the irish cl iannel at another time waiting in a cambridge coffee for a post cli aise he he picked up a country newspaper obtaining onta ining two political pie cesone he reflections of an exile and the other a parody on it welsh ballad looked them once through never gave them a further thought ht and thon repeated them without alie change of a single word Macaula yB nind some one has said was like a ir edging net which took in all that it encountered both good and bad nor ever seemed to feel the burden very much unlike a dredging net and more like a ht rainer are the minds of some other persons who carefully select what they will retain or have a natural facility for remembering classes of facts george for figures sir W scott for verses mezzo fantl for languages |