similar to what I have explained.

That the _Guzlas_ or Slavonian minstrels of the present day have by
heart with remarkable accuracy immensely long epic poems. I have found
the same among Algonkin Indians, whose sagas or mythic legends are
interminable, and yet are committed word by word accurately.

I have heard in England of a lady ninety years of age whose memory was
miraculous, and of which extraordinary instances are narrated by her
friends. She attributed it to the fact that when young she had been
made to learn a verse from the Bible every day, and then constantly
review it. As her memory improved, she learned more, the result being
that in the end she could repeat from memory any verse or chapter
called for in the whole Scripture. The habit had marvelously developed
her intelligence as well as memory.

Now I confidently declare that if this lady had submitted what she
learned to the suggestive-will process she could have spared herself
half the labor. And it is to be observed that as in time the labor of
reviewing and the faculty of promptly recalling becomes easier and
easier till it is simply mechanical, so the memorizing by suggestion
becomes more _facile_ until it is, so to speak, only a form. And as it
becomes easier the foresight strengthens till it wields an _absolute_
power.

If the reader is interested in this subject of developing the memory,
I would refer him to my work on Practical Education in which it is
discussed with reference to recalling objects through all the Senses.

No one who has made even a very slight trial of the process of