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11.]   QUALITIES.   111

War;' I could afterwards without effort, say pages of the work by heart."

6. " At school I used to learn in a single evening 100 lines of Virgil, and repeat them correctly in the morning.

"Father-very good."

Good memory for facts and figures.

1. " Next to no verbal memory, but good for facts small or great which will fit into any chain of reasoning."

2. " Of moderate verbal memory, but strongly retentive of facts and figures so far as they are related to any subject on or in which I was engaged.

"Father-Memory very retentive, but not systematic. He had a great amount of information, but had not great acquirements ; his familiarity with Scripture was, however, remarkable. Mother-Very retentive for small facts and figures."