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    m rr^ Eikd^'ma^aM-da^^n&lym [Mat 26,1860...

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    DR. PICK'S MNEMONICS. OF all doleful pro...

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    MODERN ITALIAN POETS. IF Italian pre-emi...

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    Stabs And Gartees, And Okdeks Of Mekit. ...

    Goncords , « f aGulden ^ iigel *« a a Crescent ; of St . CoiMAsaaA St . DAMIWs , twpl & igb ^ Mar ^ of Love , Crown Rb ^ a ) , Crown x . f . Bayarja , Crown of . lion , ai £ Crown of Cyprus . ( not { Cypress ) , of ^^^ , or , Dane-strength , _ ot DeJaCalza , or the Stocking ? of the Holy Vial and the Scale , of the Overthrown Dragon . and the Dove , and of almost any quantity ot Eagles you may wish * But other orders are yet to come . One there is of Electoral Orders for Ladies , presided _ pver by a Serene and of

    Grand Mistress , the Dowager Duchess of Deux ^ Ponts ; ^ one the rales is , that " the lady . who appears without thus cross m public is to be fined one ducat for every such omission . We believe that since the establishment of the order no ^ single case of omission has occurred . There is an Order ^ fthe Ermine , and of the Ear of Corn , of the Golden Fleece , of Fortune , ¦ and ? f the Frieslahd Knights ; of the White Falcon . There are three Orders of Fidelity ; one of Fidelity arid Perfect Union , one of the Genet , and of St . Geoege , no less than nine orders , of which , alter our Garter , that of Russia is thought the grandest . j nextshould be mentioned

    Sfr Gebion , who alphabetically comes , by any truthful historiap , for this reason . The proud islanders talk of the brilliancy and antiquity of our Garter , and , things being considered , 'tis brilliant , and it is ancient . But SlGeeion beats us by a trifle . Thus , St . Gebion having , with three hundred others , suffered martyrdom at Cologne , martyrdom too of a respectable kind , the German crusaders took him as their patron , and either m 1190 or 1228 the Order was founded . Geeion hath therein the advantage of George—small , indeed , to one who is ^ familiar with Cheops , or who sups with Plato , or who even lmng back into the pasty ; takcth postprandial delights with Hoeatius ^ Golden Fleeces . L : ons , Shields , Spurs , and Stoles , these have

    their orders . ' t . ^ ,, " ,..., Griffins and Guelphs also—the latter celebrated as being the title of honour before our Queen lost Hanover , and took to the . Bath . " What have you done with Sir Sojiebopy Dash P asked a friend in reference to a troublesome place-hunter . " Oh _ rZ have K C H * d him " was the answer . Our ministers now ii-Cli . the same class , and of course others- also . Next iiv rotation of the alphabet we find the Orders ot St . Henet and of St . Hoi , y . Ghost ( St Espeit ) , which latter was the chief order of Fiance before the Revolution . But those ragged sans culottes who had overrun

    Italy and thrown down various thrones , were 'taught not to believe in the St . EsPEtT , and for them Napoleon created the-Order of the Legion of Honour ; he found .. that that vain and restless' people must be decorated with some distinction , rand he gave them that star with five split points , which has since become so very famous , and which has since hung upon the breast of almost every Frenchman of distinction from Bera * gee to Thiebs , and which now decorates many English soldiers , and more than one English artist , being the most r ^ an ^ prder iir the world . ¦ ¦ ¦• - h half the al list of Orders

    We have not gone throug phabetical , nor mentioned a tithe of their number , and yet our spacers exhausted . Shall we invent another ? Do our men . want an ' 'Order of ^ Bira-N ^ jhfc ?~ We-th ^^ of the sort as we have before said , existing—injudicious and weak . Orders and decorations may please our upper classes , but they are not relshed by the hard workers of our fleets and armies , and a profusion of them will do more harm thau good . The consciousness of having done a good action is a , sufficient reward , without external mark . Our authors are quite content with phiin names , our artists do not wish for any grander title than R . A . after theirs ; our great farmers and inventors , and men of science , are perfectly happy in

    belonging to the large families of plain . John Browns , Smiths , or Joneses . The plain sense and modesty which has hitherto distinguished the nation , we would wish , at all hazards , to preserve . Thut was , a , wise and celebrated answer given by our bold Baron * many hundreds of years ago : — " Nolumiis leges Angh ^ muttfre" We do not wish to . change the laws of England ; and if the , written laws , why not those far more powerful , the unwritten ; the laws of custom derived from father to son—cuatprns which have made this country . honpured nnd foremost , and which ; will . still . render her so . The fame ; which at each seaport town greets the brave seaman , which distinguishes him at his mess , and makes him a known mp omongst , his comrades , is worth all the Britannia medalorderain thew . ovld . ,

    M Rr^ Eikd^'Ma^Am-Da^^N&Lym [Mat 26,1860...

    m rr ^ Eikd ^' ma ^ aM-da ^^ n & lym [ Mat 26 , 1860 ^

    Dr. Pick's Mnemonics. Of All Doleful Pro...

    DR . PICK'S MNEMONICS . OF all doleful processes to wlrich children are subjected , learning by rote , or by heart us it is called , because there i » no heart in it , is about the worsts The brimstone and treacle , or tho sennu and salts ndminiHtered in old-fashioned Bchools rtt the spring and fall of tho ye » jr , 'is not so nauseous a * a long task of weights and measures , or kt « ti « tieshnd dates ; When we considerii 6 w mnny tears have beeii ^ snent over the' ' Table of King * , " it is obvious tlmt the

    British nation would have grown up republican if presidents and consuls had been easier to recollect , ' When wo reflect upon the horror of remembering * or tryiiig- to remember , ( the dates and particulars of the decisive battles of the world—a horror fiu-greater thnn flttjat'oFfigMhig ithem- ^ -Wo cannot wonder that human nature should ' ' rebel , ' Confound ® alftniifl with' Waterloo , Or take Phnrsalia for ttttf'Ilrtot 6 f Jirtife . > AiittV & e p « i * t of school life is waHted ih the pjLrrotWWeacqtirrfM ^ ofdetuite thnt'arespeedily forgotten ; and not Slli ^^ U 1 % " \ brothers w | io t imfflfitilMs ^^ ¦^ u . ^ -y .

    would have the fointest chance of passing exammation in the stjr tistical portion of their school career . Wolfe 4 ied happy on the-S $ s ? f Abraham , rwhen he knew that hisgreatachievementwas accomplished . and the French we ' re running away ; and »¦« " *¦* consciousness of having reached » wonderful resultconsokd ^ thehisfc hours of a successful schoolmistress , who uttered a fervent Nunc dimitiis when she heard that her pupils had answered M ^ gnam . 8 questions without a single mistake . In various ages efforts have been made to help the memory , but always upon the principle ot ft purely arbitrary association of idfeas . Words , having no natural connection with either figures ^ or facts have been ^ made the symbols of datps or events ; and when strung ^^ j ? ™ f * verses have been supposed to afford some aid to the mind m iwvWin ^ MiAtn with a retentive grasp . Accord in g to other

    plans , the wall of a room was divided into imagmai-y square * or pigeon holes-WzLOAM the Conqiteboe's lived , m one and Geobgb III . in another , and even this clever contrivance haa been found better than a naked attempt to . : remember the eras m which those two worthies lived and tormented manland . inese various efforts proved that any association was better than none ^ but , notwithstanding the multiplicity of systems , very little good came out of them , and the world went on , remembering or forgetting at haphazard , very much in the old way . At last , one Dr . Pick baa successfully picked some of the locks of oblivion * and promises to rescue large stocks of knowledge from that limbo of forgetlnlnessinto which it is so apt to fall . In France , his system was examined smd favourably reported on by a Commission appointed by tne Minister of Public Instruction . At Oxford , various college worthies affixed the seal of their approbation , and the mnemonical Doctor reccntlv astonished a London audience , to whom he was introduced

    by Mr . Mongbiton Milnes , The method , so iar as we nave progressed with it , is remarkably simple , and is / ouiid fd ^ lppn the principle of the natural association of ideas . At Willis s Ropma Dr . Pick gave ari exemplification of its powers , by repeating ^ with scarcely a mistake , thirty groups of three figures each , wlnch ^ the audience dictated , and which were inscribed m the Compartments ot a black board . Backwards or forwards , or dodging here and there , was all the s . ame to Ihe Doctor , who promised that , after a tew lessons , all his pupils should do the same . By way ot illustrating tlfe facility with whicha long string of words , having any associa ^ tion connecting one with the other , could be remembered , he pronounced quickly three or four dozen nouns , and the audience , to their astonishmentfound themselves able to repeat the whole .

    , Dr . Pick is now giving private instruction in his systen * to several noble families , and delivering a course of lectures at the Beethoven Rooms in Harley Street , to a class among whom we noticed some distinguished names . On Monday , the chief subject of the lecture was the art of remembering statistics of various countries , such as their population or extent . It would not be lair to the lecturer to give a detailed explanation of the process , but it is only just to say , that , although we went incredulous , we came away believers in his plans . Certain letters are selected , according to a principle that is easy to remember , to represent figures , and then words are constructed by which any combination of figures can be

    ex-—pressedrand-Avh ioh-at-the-same ^ tiine-can-iiidicate- ^ ftiue idea CWnected with tlio country , whose statistics are to be remembered . Thus the population of Europe is indicated by the letters of the word " North , " and it is easy to remember that Europe is a northern division of the globe . The population of Americu is indicated by the w 6 rd " Franklin , " which is naturally associated with it . " Naples" represents the poptilation of Italy , ¦ " Siberia that ot Russia , and so forth . These words were not given by Dr . Pick , but culled out by the audience as soon as they understood the plan to be followed , and it was remarkable to hear the same word uttered by simultaneous voices , in different parts of the room . The Doctor gave a few illustrations of the application of the system to the remembrance of dates , but he promised to make that branch of Mnemonics the subject of a special lecture . The next lecture will , we believe , relate to the method of remembering languages , and we look with interest for the further development of tho scheme . .

    Modern Italian Poets. If Italian Pre-Emi...

    MODERN ITALIAN POETS . IF Italian pre-eminence in the walks of poetry must now be considered a thing belonging to the past , and if , in the present century , the place asserted by Italian literature in this form cannot even be esteemed high as that attained by contemporary triumphs in other lands ; still , however , it is impossible to examine attentively all that the poetry of this language has produced of worth during the last twenty-five years or" upwards , without recognising evidences of thought , imagination , feeling , the true characteristics , in short , of poetia vitality ; and , above all , that ardent love of the fatherland , tlmt deeply felt interest in whatever concerns her honour or

    represents he ? aspirations , which ,- however become hackneyed in expression , is nevertheless the genuine seutiment prevuiling with all thoughtful writers and fervid spirits of modern Italy . If none have approached the celebrities of the sixteenth century in the Kpic ; if no examples of recent date have displayed all the high qualifications of Chiadbbba pr Fiuoma in the Lyric , nor those of Pubini and Cabtb in , tho Satiric , uor the severe vigour of Alfieri in the Tragic ; yet in all these walks has the Italian productiveness within the period above named given proof that high aims at least are not wanting , nor the spirits . Of worthy emulation become extinct . Manzoni , still living ; Puwco , Leopabdi , Giubti , Gbossi , re-^ ently ^ deewwedj Mo ^ tri , Pjndemontb , Mazza , ITosoolo , amongr

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 26, 1860, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26051860/page/12/