Abstract
MANY years ago I tried the method of reading a book upside-down on people who had never consciously attempted it before. I was surprised at the very great difference of aptitude. Generally individuals who had clear recollections of form, and could reproduce sketches of what they had seen more or less correctly, read easily and at once; but the greater number read slowly, frequently spelling as they went along. A boy of nine years of age, who was in the habit of reproducing on paper, with scissors, horses, dogs, cats, coaches, &c., read upside-down at once. I noticed that in cutting his patterns he sometimes cut his horse upside down, but more frequently the normal way. The same boy, in demonstrating geometrical propositions, was not the least put about with the reversal of the diagram. He afterwards turned out a clever pattern-designer.
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