# Major Beniowski and the Major System

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**Created:** [March 19, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/major-beniowski-and-the-major-system/31511 "2016-03-19T01:29:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/major-beniowski-and-the-major-system/31511/6 "2017-09-27T21:02:07Z")

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DLyons, excellent source material you posted. It appears that Josh also found the book by Major Beniowski, on [archive.org](http://archive.org)

I prefer to call it the Phonetic System, but since everyone knows it as the “Major System” I sometimes call them by both in the same sentence (for example: “when I was using the Major ‘Phonetic’ System”, etc.).

I just started reading a few pages here and there in the book that DLyons posted, entitled _On Memory and the Rational Means of Improving it_ by Dr. Edward Pick, and it looks really good. The author is a very insightful writer with excellent command of his craft. I also found another book by Dr. Edward Pick that looks very good entitled _Lectures of Memory Culture_. I also posted that link below. At the end of his book _On Memory and the Rational Means of Improving it_, he mentions a course he did where he demonstrated a vast amount of knowledge he memorized on a wide range of topics. Fascinating!

> **[On Memory and the Rational Means of Improving it](https://books.google.fr/books?id=-lxQAAAAcAAJ)**

> **[Google Search](https://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Edward+Pick%22)**

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