For a test read the following from "Brain and Personality" by W. Hanna Thompson. Follow the idea just suggested. Make a test, read slowly, form a mind's eye picture, think about it, and then tell the thought as nearly as possible to some one. All this may take some time and effort at first but the use of these ideas will quickly form the mental habit. Once reading a lesson in this manner will give better results than many careless repetitions. "In some fishes, such as the carp, when the ganglia, which corresponds to the cerebral hemispheres (brain) are experimentally removed, they do not seem to mind it at all, for even then there is little, if anything, to distinguish them from perfectly normal animals. They maintain their natural attitude and use their tails and fins in swimming with the same vigor and precision as before. They not only see, but are able to find their food. If worms are thrown into the water where they are swimming they immediately pounce upon them. If a piece of string similar in size to a worm is thrown in, they are able to detect the difference and they drop it after having seized it. They even, to some extent, distinguish colors for when some red and some white wafers are thrown into the water the fish almost invariably select the red in preference to the white. "It is much the same with a frog. If care be taken to keep the frogs alive after the removal of their cerebral lobes until they are quite recovered from the injury, brainless frogs will behave just like full brained frogs under like circumstances. They will crawl under stones, or bury themselves in the earth at beginning of winter, and after the period of hibernation is over, they will come out and diligently catch flies which are buzzing about in the vessels in which they are kept." Longfellow's Picture "Evangeline" Use this wonderful picture of Longfellow's. Let each word perform its intended function and each sentence form a complete picture. "Firmly builded with rafters of oak, the house of the farmer Stood on the side of a hill commanding the sea; and a shady Sycamore stood by the door, with a woodbine wreathing around it. Rudely carved was the porch, with seats beneath; and a foot-path Led through the orchard wide, and disappeared in the meadow. Under the sycamore tree were hives overhung by a pent-house, Such as a traveler sees in regions remote by the road side, Built o'er a box for the poor, or the blessed image of Mary. Far down, on the slope of the hill, was the well with its moss-grown Bucket, fastened with iron, and near it a trough for the horses." Read again the first three lines, have the child describe the picture. An artist would spend hours to paint this picture, yet we with our wonderful mental faculties can see it in an instant. Add to this picture, and when finished have the child give a prose description of it. Other examples for younger children are given in the Second Book on The Memory.