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    DB,. PICK'S MNEMONICS.

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    MODERN ITALIAN PQETS.

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    Chords , of a' Golden Aiigel and a Crescent ; of St . Cos ** s *** St . pAMiANtJs , two Knights Martyrs ; ofseverd crowns-the Crown of Xov < - € rpwn B ^ aff Crown of Bavaria , Crown of Iron , and Crown of Cyprus ( not Caress ) , of' Danebrosv or ^ t ^ S o / the De la Cilza , or tlie Stocking ; of the Hfply V ; al 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 Xadies , presided over by a Serene Grand Mistress , the Dowager Duchess of Deux-Ponts ^ and one of the tules is , that "the lady who appears without this cross m public is to be fined one ducat for every such omission . We believe that since the establishment of the order np single case of omission has occurred . There is an Order of the Ermine and of the Ear of Corn , of the Golden Fleece , of Fortune , ^ and pf the Friesland Knightsof the White Falcon ,. There are three Orders

    ; ^ of Fidelity ; one of Fidelity and Perfect Union , one of the Genet , arid of St . Geoege , no less than nine orders , of which , after our Garter , that of Russia is thought the grandest . ; St Gebion , who alphabetically comes next , should be mentioned by any truthful historian , for this reason . The pruud islanders talk of the brilliancy and antiquity of our Garter , and , things being considered , 'tis brilliant , and it is ancient . But St Geeiqn beats us bv 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 in 1190 or 1228 the Order was founded . Geeion hath therein the advantage of Geoege—small , indeed , to one who is ; fan > iliar with Cheops , or who sups with Plato or Ay ho even living back into the past , takclh post-prandial delights with Hobatius

    Golden Fleeces , Lions , Shields , Spurs , and Stoles , these have their orders . ¦ ¦ ¦ . , ... Griffins , and Guelphs alsp—the latter celebrated as bemg ^ he title of honour before bur Queen lost Hanover , and took to the Bath . " What have you done with Sir Somebody Dash ? asked a friend in reference to a troublesome place-hunter , " Oh ! I have K C ; H . 'd hjrii , " was the answer . Our ministers now KGB . the same ^ class , and of course others also . Next in-rotation of the alphabet we find the Orders pf St . HeNby and of St . Holy Gnop ( SV Espbit ) , which latter was the chief order of France before the ¦ Revolution . But those ragged $ ans culottes who had overrun Italy ¦ ¦ ¦ and thrown down various thrones , were taught not to believe in the St . EspEiT , and for themNapoleon created the Order of the T ^ o-mn of Honour : he found that th at vain and restless people

    must be deeorated , with some distinction , and / 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 Brenchman of distinction from Bebangeb to Thiebs , and which now decorates many English soldiers , and more than one English artist , being the most repandu order in ^ ie world . L . . .. , c „ , We have not gone through half the alphabetical list of Orders , nor mentioned a tithe of their number , and yet our space is exlvauated . Shall ; we invent another ? Do our men want an Order « f-J 3 niww-tA ? -W-e ^ hi « ltthe ^ iig « estion = ^« denejid £ ^ Jy _ aDianedal of the sort , as we have before said , existing—injudicious ? and weak . Orders and decorations may please our upper classes , but they are not relished by the hard workers of our fleets and armies , and a profusion of them willdo more harm than good , ^ The consciousness action is sufficient rewardwithout external

    of haying done a good a , mark Our authors are quite content with plain names , our artists do not wish for any grander title than BjV . after theirs ; our great farmevs and inventors , and men of science , are perfectly happy in belonging to the large families of . plain Jqhn Bbowns , Smiths , or Joneses . The . plain sense and modesty which has hitherto distinguished the nation , we would wish , at all hazards , to preserve . That wasa wiee and celebrated answer given by our bold Barons many , hundreds of years ago — - " Nolumus leges Anghca mutant . " > \ Ve do not wish to change the laws ot knglund ; and it the written laws , why riot those far more powerful , the unwritten ; the Inws of custom derived from father to son—customs which have made this country honpnred . and foremost , and which will still render her so . The fume which at each seaport tbwn greets the brave . Hen man , which distinguishes-him at hit * mess , and makes him a known mun , amongst his comrades , is worth .. . all the Britannia medul orders in the world .

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    O F all doleful processes to which children are subjected , learning ' by rote , or by heart as it is called , because there is no heart in it israhoutthe worst . The brimstone and treade , or the senna and salts wdminititored in old-fashioned schools at the spring and fall of the yenrVis not so nauseous as a long * task of weights artd measures , or starti » tfcs Iiifd dales * ' 'When wo consider How" many tears havebeeii * ftpcnt dver the M Tabla of Kings , " it is obvious thut the British nation would have grown up republican if presidents 1 and consuls had been eauier to recollect . When wo reflect upon the horror of rememberihgr . or trying : to remetnbop , the dates and particulars of the decisive battles of the world—a horror far greater thnrfthUtKif'tiffhtirng ^ 'tliemi ^ wo caimot wtande r ' Unit hurnnri nuture should ' rebel , confound Salwnis with Waterloo , ov take Pharsalia for the"Eivst of JuneL I Alurko pni't of echooi llfo . ts w « bted in the parro ^ liWe woqnisitfon of details that are speedily forgotten : and not a tithe of ouv inaviiiigeable yQiu » tf ludjes , or of their . brothers who have' kperit ii' twelvemqrith in 6 ot «»» er 0 i « l or prpfMss ^ onjU life ,

    would have the faintest chance of passing an examination m the ste-Seal portion of their school career . Wowe died happy oirthe heights of Abraham , when he knew that his great achievement was accomplished and the French were running away ; and' » . m ™ J consciousness of having reached a wonderful result consoled thelasfc hour ^ of a successful schoolmistress , who uttered Jf ^ ?* ^ JJ dimUUs when she heard that her pupils had answered Mangnali . s questions without a single mistake . In various ages efforts have been made to help the memory , but always upon _ the principle ot a purely arbitrary association of ideas . Words , having noMtml connection with either figures or facts , have been made the symbols of dates or events ; and when strung together m rude virseshave been supposed to afford some aid to the mind in Retentive According pother

    ho ^ g ^ i ^ r wi t ^ a grasp . . plans , the wall of a room was divided into imaginary squares w pigeon holes—William the Conqtteboe ' s lived m one and Geobge III . in another , and even this clever contrivance ha * been found better than a naked attempt to remember the eras in which those two worthies lived and tormented mankind , lnese various efforts proved that any association was better thaw none j 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 has successfully picked some of the locks of oblivion , and ^ promises ta rescue large stocks of knowledge from that limbo of forgetlnlnessinto which it is so apt to fall . In France , his system was examined ,, r . ri fiiv ,, nrnMv vAnnrted on bv a Commission appointed by _ tne

    Minister of Public Instruction . At Oxford , various college worthies affixed the seal of their approbation , and the mnemonical doctor recently astonished aXondon audience , to whom he was introduced , by Mr . Monckton Milnes . The method , so far as we have progressed with it , is remarkably simple , and is founded upon the principle of the natural association of ideas . At Willis s JRooms Dr . Pick gave an exemnlificatipn of its powers , by repeating ^ with scarcely a ^ nistake , tliirty gvcups of three figures each , whiclvthe audience dictated , and which were inscribed in the compartments ot a black board . Backwards or forwards * or dodging here and there , was all the same to the Doctor , who promised ^ that , after aj ew lessons , all his pupils should do the same . By , way of illustratmgr the facility with which a long string of words , having any association conneciing 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 m Ins system toseveral noble -families , and delivering a course of lectures at the-Beethoven Booms 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 lie fair to the lecturer to give a detailed explanation of the process , but it is only just to say , that , although we went incredulous , wecame away believers in his plans . Certain letters are selected , according to a pr inciple that w easy to remember , to represent figures , and then words are constructed by which any combination of figures can beex--Tn-essedraTTd ^ vWch ^ tr-the ^ same-time-can ^ ndieate ^ oino ^ idea-con hoae statistics to be remembered

    nected with the country , w are . Tims the populatiPn of Europe is indicated by the letters of the word " Nprth , " and it is easy to remember that Europe is a northern division of the globe . The population of America is indicated by the word " Franklin , " which is naturally assoemted / with it > " Naples" represents the population of Italy , Siberm tlint ot Russia , and so forth . These words were not given by Dr . Pick ,, but called 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 diffurent parts of the ropm . The Dpctor gave a few illustratipns ' of the npplicutipn pf the system to the reiiieuibrance of dates , but he promised to make that brunch Of Mnemonics thp subject of a special lecture . The next lecture will , we believe , reluto to the method of remembering languages ^ and we look with interest for the further development of the scheme .

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    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 triumphsin other lands ; , still , however , it ia impossible to examine attentively all that the poetry of this language has produced of worth during the last twenty-five years or upwards , without recogniwing evidences of thought , imagination , fueling , the true characteristics , in short , of poetic vitality ; and , above all , that ardent love of the fatherland , thut deeply telt interest in whatever concerns her honpur or represents i her aspirations ; which , however becpnio hackneyed in cxpres- '

    Bion , is uevertueiens genuine movunmy « " ¦ " »>» thoughtful writers and fervid spirits of modern Italy . If none have approached the celebrities , of the sixteenth century in the Kpio ; if no examples of recent duto have displayed all the high qualifications of Cbciabbeba or Filicaja in the Lyric , nor those pf Pubini and Castb in the Satiric ,, nor the severe vigour of Alfiebi in the Tragic ; yot in all these walks has the Italian productiveness within the period , above named given propf that high aims at least are not ; wanting , » or the fspjlrits , of ; worthy emulation become oxtinct . Manzoni , still living j PEtLioo , t ^ ovAsm , Giusti , Gbossi , recently deceased ! Mojn » i , Pindbwowtb . Mazza , Foscolo , among-

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    &fa rr ^ f ;^ de ^ md ^ attm ^ [ May 26 , 1860 ^

    Db,. Pick's Mnemonics.

    D $ . PICK'S MNEMONICS .

    Modern Italian Pqets.

    MrniTCTiTsT TTATJAN POETS .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 26, 1860, page 496, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2349/page/12/