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of strength, and the different degrees of interest attendant on diversity of powers. -The memory that refuses to retain the precise language is relatively a feeble one, while the thought itself is lodged in the mind as much by the force of the truth, by logical connections, by the interest of the statement, as by mere recollection. The power of recalling words, especially proper names, is a good test of the strength of memory, since these, detached from all connection, are thrown as a dead weight on the mind. "Weakness of memory may sometimes exist in connection with considerable ease in the retention of figures, since a mathematical habit of mind and general interest and power in this department may concentrate attention on its data, and increase the ability to retain them. The diverse forms of memory are chiefly to be ascribed to diverse tastes and habits, and the interest and attention which accompany them. A tendency once established toward a given pursuit reacts strongly on all the faculties engaged in it, making them peculiarly vigorous and effective in that direction. Though memory looks for aid to all those mental powers which unite and correlate ideas, it is by no means dependent on them. Its most vigorous and characteristic efforts are almost wholly independent of association. It is when its native strength fails, that association comes prominently forward. If the memory could act always with entire vigor, it would pick up at random, by any arbitrary, momentary law, the facts of past experience, not collocating them by any of the accepted connections of thought. This, in cases of rare power, it freely does. A person has been found, who, after a single rehearsal, could recite hundreds of words thrown promiscuously together, could repeat them backward, could give every fifth, sixth, eighth word, could deal with them exactly as if they lay before the eye. Herein is the perfect, the typical power of memory, and it