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. 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."