IT.] QUALITIES. Ill 



War ; ' I could afterwards without effort, say 

 pages of the work by heart." 



6. " At school I used to learn in a single 

 evening 100 lines of Virgil, and repeat them 

 correctly in the morning. 



" Father very good." 



Good memory for facts and figures. 



" Next to no verbal memory, but good for 

 small or great which will fit into any chain 



1. 



facts 



of reasoning 



2. " Of moderate verbal memory, but strongly 

 retentive of facts and figures so far as they 

 are related to any subject on or in which I 

 was engaged. 



" Father Memory very retentive, but not 

 systematic. He had a great amount of in- 

 formation, but had not great acquirements ; his 

 familiarity with Scripture was, however, re- 

 markable. Mother Very retentive for small 

 facts and figures." 





