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tem improve the memory for a time, but event¬ 
ually cripple it. The memory is made unre¬ 
liable. and impressions received while under 
these influences are most easily forgotten. 
Memory appeal’s to be a very variable faculty. 
Some people seem to have natural memories. 
Some authors can repeat pages from their 
works even years after they were written, in 
such euscs tne facts pertaining to their charac¬ 
ters were as deeply impressed upon the brain 
that total erasure was impossible. There are 
slow tbmkers and quick thinkers, One studies 
a moment to arrive at a fact that is reached 
by the other like a flash. The slow memories 
are generally most reliable. Memories are 
destroyed by overwork, worry and an attempt 
to carry too much on tbe brain at one time. 
Poor food and unhealthy surroundiugs, dis¬ 
sipation, or anything that tends to create an 
abnormal circulation of unhealthy blood, will 
surely impair the memory. Two points are 
absolutely necessary if we would improve the 
memory We must cultivate attention and 
method; there must be a logical association of 
ideas, so that oue fact will (‘all up another, 
until the desired fact is reached. We are 
often at a loss to remember a face or a fact. 
Thousands of other ideas crowd into the mind, 
but the right one is hidden, Suddenly it 
comes upon us like a flash. We strike some 
fact in the chain connecting us with it, and in 
an instant it all comes to mind. The de¬ 
sign is to connect these chains one with an¬ 
other; to have the events ol‘ life that wo wish 
to remember closely connected. To cultivate 
a good memoi y one must live earnestly. He 
must cultivate attention and learn the art of 
forgetting unimportant things. Much can be 
done by constant practice. The most, simple 
exercise is to devote half an hour each night 
to thinking carefully over the events of the 
day. The idea is to give a history of your 
movements; people you have met. things you 
have seen, what you have done, etc. This 
practice carefully carried out from clay to day 
will strengthen uuy defective memory. We 
once tried the plan"" of giving a few moments 
each night to writing out our vocabulary. We 
tried to think of every word that we really 
understood. The practice resulted iu fixing 
the words firmly in the mind and at the same 
time served to show bow few words the aver¬ 
age person can control. .Shakespeare is said to 
have used about Ill. ooo different words iu his 
plays. Wo do not believe that the average 
vocabulary Is over 800. This practice of writ¬ 
ing out tiie vocabulary tended to increase it 
by developing a desire to learn new mean¬ 
ings, and also gave tbe memory new strength. 
The rules contained in the book under consid- 
ornfimi nrn sonsihle mid sillinle. We are glad 
to commend tbe work to those who are inter¬ 
ested in this subject. 
THE MAKING OF PICTURES, by Mrs. 
Sarah W. Whitman, (The Inter-State Pub¬ 
lishing Go.. Boston,) is the work of an artist. 
She evidently understands what, she writes 
about. Her advice seems to be sensible and 
practical. We think this little volume, care¬ 
fully studied, will bo a help to those who de¬ 
sire'to “ make pictures.” We are glad to see 
that the aut hor insists that excellence in draw¬ 
ing can only be obtained by thorough (ire- 
paration and careful and pains-taking study. 
There are too many “botehy” artists now. 
Two peoplp draw lines on paper, one line is 
a black mark, the other speuks out the result 
of years of study and care. Tho ability 
to sketch or paint fairly well will make many 
an otherwise monotonous life pleasant. Ait 
should be pursued for itself alone. There is 
no money in it for the many who waut to be 
artists simply because the life is an easy one. 
There is but"little ease in any successful life. 
As a means of beautifying the home or of 
cultivating our finer feelings by the ability to 
copy scenes or colors that please us, a fair 
knowledge of art is a most desirable accom¬ 
plishment. 
A WHITE HERON, AND OTHER 
STORIES, by Sarah Orne Jewett I Houghton, 
Millliu & Co., Boston, Price $1.25), is a good 
boot. Most of the stories were originally 
printed in the Atlantic and Harper’s. They 
are as good as new in their present dainty 
dress. We like them more and more as wo 
read them over. There is a quaint charm 
about them that many far more pretentious 
books cannot convey. Who can read that 
last sentence of the “ The Gray Man ” without 
dropping the book for a moment to think ? 
The poor, amiuble “Dulham Ladies” and 
their first experience with false hair can hardly 
be forgotten. There is a wonderful pathos 
miugled with a quaint humor to be found iu 
these pagas. There is nothing sensational or 
blood-stirring in the stories, but. they awaken 
the right kind of feeliug. The best *sU >l*y in t he 
book is Marsh Rosemary. It is the story of an 
old maid who married a worthless young 
fellow, just because he proposed to her. Ot 
course they could not live happily. He ran 
away from' her at last and never came back. 
She thought him dead until years after; she 
heard of him living in a distant, town married 
to another woman. In her anger and 
shame she went to his home to expose 
him. She came to his home after dark, 
and saw him through the window. As 
she watched him she understood why he 
hail left her. She could never have been a 
companion for him. He had married a woman 
of his own age who had tastes, feelings and 
ambitions like his own. She was making a 
man out of the worthless scamp. Ho leaned 
over the cradle and raised tbe baby to show its 
latest trick to bis wife. The shame-eaten, 
weary woman on the outside saw it all—her¬ 
self unseeu. She t hought that this man never 
colild care for her agaiu. By exposing him 
she would only spoil bis chances forever, break 
the new wife's heart and (ill the baby’s life 
with shame. She turned and walked silently 
away—like another Enoch A rdett—back to her 
old lonely life. There are many who will 
question her judgment iu doing as she did. but 
few can read'the story of her struggle without 
feeling glad that she did not speak. 
Those who read the November Harper’s 
will be interested in studying the faces of New 
York literary men there given. As a rule, 
people are disappointed in such faces. Wheu 
we judge a man by his writings we feel that 
somehow his thoughts must have written them- 
selves on his face, so that we can read them 
there. Wo seldom find this to be so. There 
is always a disappointment iu the sight of a 
great nian. It would be bettor if we could see 
the man first and enter into his thoughts after¬ 
wards. The majority of writers and public 
men would do well to make themselves more 
of a mystery and keep their faces out of print. 
The picture Of E. P. Roe will, we think, sur¬ 
prise most, of his readers. They have an entire¬ 
ly different man iu mind, Julian Hawthorn 
looks like his father, but seems to have more 
force, and yet a keener sense of fun. 
Tuk noblest characters are not always sure 
to live iu song and story. Men and women 
having crosses from which the bravest might 
shrink, live ami die unheeded. The world 
knows nothing of their greatness unless some 
dear friend forces the evidence into view. An 
instance Of this is seen ill the life of Judge 
Richard Reid, of Kentucky. Our readers may 
remember something of the circumstances 
connected with his death, He was publicly 
beaten most shamefully by a brother lawyer. 
Local tradition left but oue course opeu to him 
—that was to kill his assailant. This he could 
not do. As a Judge he could not, break the 
law, and ns n Christian be could not shed 
blood, He did his best, to hold to his convic¬ 
tions, even in u community where men and 
women thought him a coward. He endured 
it until the tortured heart broke, and he took 
his own life. The story of this crime, told by 
his wife, is a wonderful book. W. D. Howells 
well says in Harper’s that “he wishes, for the 
sake of civilizatu >u, of religion, that the book 
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