How to Read Character

“During our thirty years’ experience in the practical application of scientific rules to character reading, we have used maps, different charts, revising old one’s year after year, and adding one improvement after another. The present work embodies our latest and best ideas on the subject, so far as they can be set forth in this condensed and popular form. It contains not only all of the Phrenology of previous charts or hand-books for self-instruction, but it embraces much more of Physiology and Physiognomy than any former book of the kind.

In this Illustrated Hand-book we have endeavored to incorporate just that kind of matter best suited and to put it in the smallest possible compass compatible with completeness of statement and ample illustration. We have endeavored to be systematic in our arrangement, succinct and clear in our expositions, and popular rather than technical or professional in our style.

That this little work may be the means of encouraging the reader to correct any errors of judgment or improper habits he may possess—to cultivate and develop all the higher qualities of mind and heart and to make the most of his opportunities and of himself, is the desire of THE AUTHOR”.

Excerpts from the Author’s Preface