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. Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ONTINUAL as is found the neceffi- 
ty of accurate recurrence to the {ci- 
ences of chronclogy and geography, to 
perfons ef liberaleducation, in their bif- 
torical fludies, and often in their miilce!- 
Jancous reading, .yet few individuals pof- 
fefs, naturally, the power of recollea&t- 
ing, at will, what they may have lesrat 
in thefe important branches of knowledge. 
A technical method, therefore, of jure 
and ready recellecéiion will, indifputably, 
he allowed of great ufe and advantage. 
I, fome. years fince, in the courfe of 
Jiterary inftruction, completed a feries of 
Fables of ali the Sovereigns of modern 
Europe from abeut the eleventh century. 
in addition to thofe of the late Dr. Grey, 
in the department of ancient hiftery ; 
which latter I had firft adopted with fuc- 
cefs in. teaching chronology, on. Dr. 
Grey’s ingenious {eheme of “ Artificial 
Memory,” to my different pupils, and 
particularly to fome ladies of fafhion, and 
to my own daughters. To thefe Tabies 
I have added a new Series on Geography, 
which I taught my pupils in the fame 
method. ; 
Having applied'the ufe of the teehnical 
memory toa pumber of. other cbjetts be- 
yond the original defign of its inventor, 
I have endeavoured, at leaft in its appli- 
cation, to improve the advantages of this 
valuable art. 
I venture particularly to recommend its 
ufe to perfons in fitvations obliging them 
to fpeak extemporancoufly ; whetrer in 
k€tures on any branch of art or {cience, 
er in the chara€ier of advocates at the 
bar, of orators in the pulpit, of mem- 
bers of parliament, or other perfons en- 
gaged in public life; little doubting, 
that, in proporii:n to the extent of its 
application, it vill be found to deierve 
attention, and to gain upon the partiality 
of tie public. Wao, may I be permit- 
ted to afk, previoufly to having had much 
opportunity of practice, in any of the 
cafes alluded to, has not been fenfible of 
failing occafionally in the recollettion of 
his heads of diteourfe, and particulazly 
of topics arranged under them, in pre- 
paring to addrefs a public audience? 
From the inftances of fuccefs in the 
fe of this methed, _which I have wir. 
neffed, I cannot but feel a ftrong degree 
of confidence in ils cflicacy, to prevent 
the inconvenient and mortifying failure 
here noticed. © 
Gentlemen, who have been bred inany 
of our clailicai feminaries, will have no 
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Dr. Letitice cn a E4emoria Technica. 
[June 1, 
difficulty in conftru€ting memorial lines 
in the hexameter meafure of Dr. Grey, or 
in the iapphics, which, from my expe~ 
rience of their more pleafng effeéts on 2 
Briuth car, I have generally preferred in “” 
the numerous Tabies properly my own— 
in thofe on geography excepted; nor do 
TI defpair, that a tew rules, which I have 
igid down tor their confrution in either 
meafure, wil, if refolution be not want- 
ing, prove eafily prafiicable to well-edu- 
cated perfons of both fexes, though hi- 
therto unacquainted wih their nature. 
Ihave, in chis ** New Memoria Tech- 
nica,” omitied my psedeceffor’s Tables on 
aitronomy, on ancient coins, weights, 
and meafures, and fome of his mifcella- 
neous articles, for reafons which will be 
afligned in the Preface or Introduétion to 
my beok. “Fhe explanations of the art 
itiel:, to whatever obje&ts applied, will 
be almoft wholly my own. 
‘The terms and conditions of this werk, 
which the fmall emoluments I derive from 
my proieffion oblige me to publith by 
{ubicription, form the proper matier of 
my advertifements, which have appeared, 
as they will continue to do, in moft of 
the public papers. Fe. 
As the work, wanting little more than my 
laf correstion, is almoft ready for printing, 
it is fully my intention, fhould it, by Chrift- 
mas text, meet with fufficient encou- 
ragement irom the liberality of the pub- 
lic, to put it tnen to the prefs, and to 
publifh it in the courle of the enising 
winter. Icannot, therefore, but wifh it 
to be unceriiood, that all who mean fo 
honour it with their patronage, would 
_greatiy enhance the obligation by an carly 
communication of their intention to fub- 
feribe, 
I: being well known, that tabular 
printing, and elpecially that of Lables 
like mine, in which a continual and cor- 
ret intermixtere of Roman and Italic 
letters, and a frequent ufe of arbitrary 
marks or figas, wili be neceflary, is more 
expenfive than ordinary printing, and that. 
every branch of preis-bufinels, not to 
mention the price of paper, is advanced ; 
it is but fair to apprife the public, that 
my book, though in large oétavo, will 
be fomewhat dearer, ia proportion to its 
quantity of matter, than books of that 
fized paper commonly are. 
Your kind admiffion of this account of 
my. intended publication into your cele- 
brated mifceilany, cannot fail of promoting 
my fuccefs, and will.confer a great obli- 
gation on, Sir, Your's &c. +i 
J. LETTICEs 
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