crowd of frightened women, and which I remembered by the fact that
_pane_ is the Slavonian for Mr. or Sir. For there is such a tendency
of ideas to agglutinate, and so become more prominent, as we can see
two bubbles together in a pool more readily than one that we can very
soon learn to recall many images in this way.

But after a time a certain limit is reached which most minds cannot
transgress. VOLAPUK was easy so long as, like Pidgin-English, it
contained only a few hundred words and no grammar. But now that it has
a dictionary of 4,000 terms and a complete grammar it is as hard to
learn as Spanish. It invariably comes to pass in learning to remember
by the Associative method that after a time images are referred to
images, and these to others again, so that they form entire categories
in which the most vigorous mind gets lost.

The other method is that of _direct_ Memory guided by Will, in which
no regard is paid to Association, especially in the beginning. Thus to
remember anything, or rather to learn _how_ to do so, we take
something which is very easy to retain--the easier the better--be it a
jingling nursery rhyme, a proverb, or a text. Let this be learned to
perfection, backwards and forwards, or by permutation of words, and
repeated the next day. Note that the repetition or _reviewing_ is of
more importance than aught else.

On the second day add another proverb or verse to the preceding, and
so on, day by day, always reviewing and never learning another
syllable until you are sure that you perfectly or most familiarly
retain all which you have _memorized_. The result will be, if you
persevere, that before long you will begin to find it easier to
remember anything. This is markedly the case as regards the practice