MEMORY

the faculty of retaining and reproducing at will, mental or sensor; impre ions. Memory is so nece ary even in the every day affairs of life, that its phenomena were carly the subject o! pr joe and ere ae power memory seems — te ideas recorded through the sight." Bound seem to give the next strong eat impremion; we can all, even the most unmusical, remember a tuno we have often heard, aod like. Impre ions derived from the k ’, | Senses of taste and feeling do not seem r | laatso woll, and {tie doubtful whether o + | Can sctually recall a smell. The power. | Memory shown by individuals fs astonls 7 tng. Some people, like Julius Cosar, nev ) | forget a faco once seen; others, like Lo Macaulay, can repeat hundreds of lines y | either poetry or prose that they have re: -| over twice. [See Mnemonics.) s| RMEMPEIS. (1) An ancient town s | Ezypt, once the capital, now in ruins, on ti i | left bank of the Nile, about ten miles abo 3 | the Pyramids. (2) Townin U.S.A., in t j State of Tenne ee, on the Mi i ippi, § miles above New Orleans. The river, | navigable for large ve els 4 to Memphi {} and it is also an important cotton ma s;and manufacturing town. Populati > | 100.000. [s. 211]