Show A SELECTING MEMORY men who are set by others to load their memories with what is not their proper intellectual food never get the credit of having any memory at au ad and end by themselves believing that they have none these bad memories are often the best they are often the selecting memories they seldom win distinction in examinations but in literature and art they are quite incomparably superior to the miscellaneous memories that receive only as boxes and drawers receive what is put into them A good lit literary I 1 era ry or artistic memory is not like a postoffice post office that takes in everything but like a very well edited periodical which prints nothing that does not harmonize with its intellectual life philip G hamerton |