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Take a walk in the country and, sitting down, listen to the sounds you can hear. From what direction do they come? How many are there, and what is the difference between them? Afterwards, when reading nature descriptions, compare your knowledge of sounds with that of the author. There are some suggestive details in R. L. Stevenson’s “Travels with a Donkey,” and in the Nature books of W. J. Long. Repeat these exercises as opportunity serves, but endeavour to preserve regularity.

SPECIAL EXERCISES FOR MIND TRAINING AND HEALTH

By EUSTACE MILES, M.A.

The exercises prepared by Mr. Miles will suit the requirements of the majority of students, but where exercises of a special character, and advice as to diet and matters of a confidential nature are concerned, the Secretary of the Pelman Institute will give an introduction to Mr. Miles, who has consented to treat all Pelman students at special fees.

Second Lesson.

Before beginning to do any exercises, spend a little time, while you are still lying in bed, in recalling the importance of the right physical exercises, as described in the first Lesson.

In the first Lesson, without mentioning more than a few of the advantages of the right exercises, I said, first, that they encouraged regularity of habit, and that they strengthened the will-power; secondly, that they increased self-respect by making the body more efficient, and more a thing to be proud of; and, thirdly, that they tended towards health and fitness; fourthly, that by certain methods and a system of exercise, of which an instance was given in the first Lesson, imagination and memory could be trained in a very pleasing and health-giving way.

Now for a second sort of exercise.