NGLISH-Cuisese Memory Drurtoxary Ascot Hall. The Chinese American Publishing Ca., 25 Nanking Road.
The author explains in a carefully worded introduction that the principles on which he has selected the 2,000 terms intended to be memorized is 1. To obtain a maximum return for present labour 2. To utilize to its maximum previous labour 3. To reduce to a minimum physical labour 4. To employ subconscious attentive labour.
These are excellent aims and, if even partially accomplished, will be a boon to those who use his book. Briefy his method is to group words of kindred meaning together so as to get the fullest help from the association of ideas. The scheme is a good one and is well carried out. The book is clearly printed on good paper and there is an excellent index at the end.
The sentences used have been collected from various sources and are uniformly good. It is a handy little book for a student to have on his desk even if he does not memories al] the terms in it. One might want the word for ''Plenipotentiary" and it is comforting
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.