Clerk, or Traveller,
both in leaving a clear impression and in strengthening the memory.

It certainly seems to me an excellent way for mastering the rules, and
would admit of their recapitulation each time the exercises are gone
through.

Reading aloud is also an excellent practice. It improves the
pronunciation and trains or keeps the ear in practice. Its benefit is
not to be measured by what is retained by the memory. It confers also a
benefit similar to that which is derived from a course of arithmetic.
Grammatical peculiarities may be noted at the end of the book, and the
page added. As the limbs are invigorated and strengthened by suitable
exercise, so the powers of the mind are strengthened and developed by
following a great mind at its best, following its train of thought, of
reason.

Mr. John Cryer in his school board electioneering address, 1894, ranges
promising pupils in the order of workers, plodders and bright ones. The
last are frequently overrated, the memory more quick than retentive.
"Wie gewonnen, so zerronnen," "Lightly come, lightly go," mere quickness
may prove a will o' the wisp, and may be peculiar to one subject, but the
capacity for patient, honest, painstaking work is a vastly more valuable
quality, which can be applied with fair success to any pursuit. It gives
earnest of the sense of duty, of responsibility, and that capacity for
self-sacrifice, which peculiarly fit and qualify their possessor for
positions of trust and responsibility; it is a pledge that the amount of
labour will be forthcoming to render equal to the position. "Practice
makes perfect" says the proverb. "Habit becomes second nature" and the
facility and aptitude which nature sometimes bestows as a free gift can
be acquired at the cost of application and diligence.

Whilst mastering the first language the pupil is also learning how to
learn languages, each successive one becomes more easy.

Let the pupil make it a rule always to do his best. He will naturally
take a pride and a pleasure in work well done, and by continually
striving and studying to do better, he cannot fail to improve in it.
This is the road to honest success, to happiness and to self-improvement:
this will continually enlarge his capabilities and strengthen his natural
powers, and, even if he fail in accomplishing all he aimed at, there can
be no better consolation than that of knowing that he has nothing to
reproach himself with that he has ma