292 The Science of Mnemonics. - 
To work upon the principle association successfully, ideas 
which are suggestive must be substituted for ideas which 
are unsuggestive. Thus, for the unsuggestive numbers from 
I to 10 take the following suggestive representatives : 
For One Wonder 
5s vO Tutor 
5 Ihree - Threefold 
» Four Foreknown 
5, Eve Fifer 
3 Sixpence 
» seven} .Seyerm 
» Hight Hatred 
$) Nie A nigh 
ee Wen A tender (of an engine.) 
Call the above words A, opposite them write down 
ten wards at random, calling the latter words B; make each 
couple A, B, meet at the imaginary point D, and you will 
know the numerical order of the words B, by thinking of 
the words A. 
Although the preceding hints are given clearly, it is 
highly probable that if they were offered to the general 
public, instead of to the readers of the TECHNOLOGIST, 
who are especially scientific, ninety-nine readers out of 
every hundred would not take the pains to try the experi- 
ment suggested, which does not occupy more than ten or 
fifteen minutes, and which illustrates one of the most in- 
teresting laws of our intellectual being. It is an experi- 
ment too, which might induce further investigation into this 
inportant subject. The characteristic tendency of many 
minds to leave experiments untried and to decline, investi- 
gation. 
THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF ENGLISH 
POETRY. 
BY HUNTINGTON BOYLE, M.A, 
HE rise and progress of British poetry is one of , 
those subjects which claim paramount attention 
amid the fields of the intellectual culture of our land. In 
endeavouring, as briefly as possible, to sketch its history in 
the present article, every allowance must be made for the — 
length of ground over which we travel. In doing so, how 
