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MYSTERIES OF MEMORY.
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The foliaring interesting artiole by Mr. Garrett P. Serviss, appears in ar Ame ricia journal:-
An Englisa writer 'has just been reend- ling the remarkably history of the Rev. Those Threkhold, a Presbyterian minis iter, of. Rochdale, who, it is averred, car
riod the entire Bible in his houd, so that il the number of a chapter in any of the books was given to him he could imme djutely recite the entire chapter frean motory. He was a living-mayolopolis
Hos. Mr D. Landale-Deputy Chairman, † CAPITAL AND RESEE......G #7,080,000 |, of dates and facts of all kinds and could
G. Friesland, E. W. L. Pattonden,
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For the Hongkong and Shangha Banking Corporation,
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Hongkong, Joly 1, 1912
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Equal... £1,450,000 | speak tea languages, EVERY DESCRIPTION 'OF BANK- ING BUSINESS nanoted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened on the
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DEPOSITS RECEIVED, Axed.for one year at 4% per annum or for aborter portada, atates which may be ascertained. on application.
Similar instances of extraordinary me inery Frequently arise, and they possess a certain imporsance for the light thrown upon a faculty of inmenso value, which most of us entirely neglect to train and develop, li
The popular belief that a powerful
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grat intellectual ability does not appear Mail and TELEGRAPHIC NEMIT.
-to be well founded. "Napoleon could go TANCES. mado.
among his guard and call by namo uny LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFTS į member of "it who happened to attract granted on all the principal cities in the his attention. Macaulay's memory was World.
the baths of his ensemous productivity ;hen wrter. Many other mon cd first-rate ability have had extraordinary powers of
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memory.
Sell, to is true that the many instancis of remarkably memory rulate to persons PURCHASE and SALE of Stooks and who were either eccentric to defectivo in Shares effected.
mentulity.
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The Eats dwarf Tom Thumb had a perfectionary of musical sounds, al- thought he pressed no scientific know-
No. 9, Queen's Road Controls of sic. that upon hearing a new. Engkocz, November 1, 1912
'piocs he emuld sit down and play it st
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The *Beamael. Blacksmith,” Elihur Burrit, who extinued to practise Lis trails marly all his life. Lonrued fity Imagtages. He loumaal Latin auf Greek. and read the Enti and the Blind, whil I was still an apprentice at the bege.
Antennio Muglibevetti, a prer Floren tine, never forgot wijthing that he rend Di mo verision he hastily read over i mannseript that a write hal hot hire at, and imtrediately took away. Lory | afterward, when the writer came to hin CAID-OF
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Tind is but one copy in the world." aid Magliulocchi, and that is in the Grand Signior's Library in Constantino- pre In is the seventh book, on the so-
nd shelf, on the right hand as you
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This calls natention to a peculiarity of memory which many persons possess. They can recall places as if they saw Blem befo üheir eyes. I har oftes beer-aided, in schæaching for a pusticular paunge by an instinctive recollection that it is on the right pr. ibid. left hand page. and nour the top, the middle or the bot tom, even though I may not havo soon the book for years.
Some psychologists divide memory into two demce-memory of form, or 'visual wwmory, and memory of sound," or si dible memory. Many persons never for get what they bear, but quickly low wlust they read. In general, wo remein. bez better what we have seen. How often do we meet a ince that we recall per fectly, without the slightest recoloction of the name of the person that it belang to? This is another proof of the educa tional value of pictures, whother "mov ing" or "still. **
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"Kaswieride and Teobalene.
Look at that's who hailo attained pro- frienes in the act of playing, a musical instrathond,, weitrean English journal mawk romcruber, well the dithioultios, the misery of the inhalation.; We road of Monach Saint-Sodas, & Earngold.pies, forming at an early age extraordinary tichnical feat and, it is posible thah- thuso-man havo-gewar-known the terror the key:bosad of a pianotoria can inspiro. The majority, however, must be rory well; nagunivsed with the unpleesstimees pë the first stepa. To submit wolf, to the discipline to win through it to a certain metery of the violin the piRZO, .... VIDA, once considered the only way to prova one's right, to claim, musical intelligence. Aattorf. fnet, tita, mare, ability: ko perform is in no way proof of musical. tustes Anyone who, as Dr. Johnson. would, say, having cheen caught, young, is made to practia for a punbar of hours every day enviar in the cud gain-technical skill. His fingers must lemm,,st·somo; time to fall in the right place, avan though his ear cannot distinguish tho, differenca between a high noto and a low, one nor his mind detect the salient fo turos of the simplest piece of music. As. long as the tallacy was allowed to pass. unchallenged it was to be expected, that, some attempts would be made to make the beginning less painful and the pro gross more rapid. There are accordingly dumir violins and dumb pianoforteg==-8: blessing to righbours,—and, there are a number of exercises which are said to make the fingers pliable and strong.. witli- out, touching the keyboard at the piazo |: the fingerboard of the violin. In spite of these temptations the number of musical, amateurs is, not on the increase, Music is no longer the necessary socom- plishment of young women. The timo a schodway can devote to music, is, utterly insuficient. Where is now the young lady who onco delighted the family circle on rent aceasions with the variations an Home, swixt borpand Thei Battle of Vittoria"? As if to make,
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things still more complicated, almost all, the good music produced today is in finitely mora didieuls than that of some Fours ago Most of Mozart's music and good, many calogice of Beethoven de not deinandan behaigue, of the highest order. To-day Debawy, Brahms, wil "Reger write only for those whose wheloj | Széking Figs To Order--Cha,h-y-
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as are necessary to the understanding of a certain work. They explain the main lines of a symphony without attempting the details of musical form. They tell us the history of a definite pices of work; rather than the general history of music.
Hollow Hei Har Pri.Kap They will help to see the skill ofį| Quik--Um-Übun others without showing us how to ssquiro. |- Ríos, Bizda;--Wo Ya Chour. similar skill ourselves. This may appear.
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