21 SEPTEMBER 1901, Page 25

How to Remember. By Eustace H. Miles, M.A. (F. Warne

and Co. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Miles's readers can hardly fail to get some good out of his book. Pay attention—this is the upshot of his counsel —look all round the subject, think what it suggests, study its associations, and have your mind and body fit for all this exercise of intelligence. At the same time, he does not despise systems, the various forms of memoria technica. Intelligent association is the secret of memory, though it would be idle to deny that, in common with all other faculties, it depends very much on natural aptitude. In teaching no effort could make the average educated person a match for Macaulay, who could remember, after a quarter of a century, verses that he bad once read in the " Poets' Corner" of a provincial newspaper.