MNEMONICS

(Gr. /-i/iJ/ii-, memory.) The art of reliic memory of particular things by artificial aids. rumou proce of tying a knot in a handkerchief, fcc, will exemplify the simplest species of mnemonics, in which wo endeavour to connect certain arbitrary acts with peculiar a ociations, so that the memory of the former may call up the latter. Some persons have taken the precaution, ivering an addre by heart, of entering the room in which it was to be spoken, and connecting in their own minds parlicular portions of their inlended language with certain visible objects in the room. The well-known solemrved on the perambulation of parish boundaries, , form another instance of practical mnemonics, the obg lo fix the memory of parlicular s|mts in the mind of those present. For the purpose of facilitating the remem-, dales, names, , various methods have been v different writers (especially Feinagle and Gray in England) under the names of Mcmoria Technic a, or Artificial Memory. [s. 775]