The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-29
TRAINING OF THE MEMORY
H. H. FULLER, OF ST. PAUL, HAS
A NEW SYSTEM
plains the Philosophy, as Well as
the Technique of System Which
Over Those of Any System Pre-
viously Exploited.

seems to Present Advantages
Over Those of Any System Pre-
viously Exploited.
Memory, elusive as electricity and no
less universally unitarian, is to be
dutiful captive, henceforth.
The Ben Franklin of this latter day
who Is to compel the submission of
this tickle reliance of all humanity,
ard make her amenable to his every
dictate, is Harry H. Fuller, assistant
city engineer, of this city, for num-
Der Of years a prominent factor in mu-
nicipal politics, but nevertheless
through those years a deep student Of
the mysteries Of the human intellect.
Memory culture has so far even so
interesting a field, and so fruitful a
one, for Mr.. Fuller. that he has writ
ten volume. which is now in press, on
'"The Art Of Memory"
It is studious, yet not abstruse, Sc
rious, yet not unentertaining. presenta-
ton of subject which is of universal
1nterest-Shortcoming and possibilities
Of the memory Of man.
The inability to connect faces with
names at moments meeting has
strained countless friendships; the. SUI.
periority of the afterthought along all
human lines is universally conceded.
Mr.. Fuller proposes in his work sys-
tenn by which, although not every one
may acquire the ready perception Of a
point, and the mastering about it of
vigorous English that made Ingalls,,
perhaps, the most feared of modern
debaters in the world, yet any one of
ordinary intelligence may so improve
his memory that the facts that now are
fugitive when most they are in de-
mand, may be arranged on the track
less ocean Of human intelligence with
the hxedness of rsaterial geography,
and the index finger of the mind touch
at once on any one Of the million
things which it may be of~value to man
to remember.
And Mr.. Fuller has been singularly
happy in his treatment Of his subject,
and the prose-poetry of his opening
chapters, which comprise in themselves
temptation to even superficial read
er to give his system a trial, are de-
liciously enticing.
From study Of what memory does
for man, and what 1t is, stripped of
any physiological entanglements, Mr..
Fuller proceeds to recount, in O most
interesting anecdotal way, the accom-
.pl1Shments Of many Of the marvellous
memories Of men in history, and wom-
en-, too, for Cleopatra, the siren of
Egypt, spoke ten or eleven languages.
The author of the present work Is
evidently not struck with amazement
as much as with admiration for the
feats of these people. While he grants
that a great memory usually goes with
great brain, he insists that an abnor-
NAL brain is not necessary to the de-
velopment Of g. memory that, as the
public habit goes, might be esteemed
phenomenal
A chapter he devotes to those who
from Simenides through over twenty
centuries down to NJ. Loisette have
tried various devices for cultivating the
memory, and each of these devices he
has taken for what it has done, and for
what it did not do.
Mr.. Fuller's system, which, he thinks,
is broader, as well as deeper than any
that has preceded it, emphasizes first,
the necessity Of attention, without
which memory cannot first become pos
sessed of the facts to be remembered.
Scarcely less important than this ele-
ment is the necessi y OF heedlessness
in so far as trivialities are concerned.