[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have followed-with
much interest your correspondents' descriptions of their mental images of the days of the week.' My own corresponding mental pictures are not connected with colours, but only with form, and are not easy to describe. The months of the year are more definite, forming a circle, the upper part formed of the summer months, the lower of the winter ones, the sides being the autumn and spring. The colour impressions, however, seem the more interesting and striking. It would -be interesting to know how much our mind-pietnres are caused by the very vivid impressions of early childhood; and how much by a natural, and perhaps necessary, mental process. Perhaps most people unconsciously form a mental picture (it may often be a very dim one) of such mental conceptions as past time, the sequence of the
centuries, and many others.—I am, Sir, &c., A. BEST.
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