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| Character Reading V2 N4 Mar-May 1926 | |
| Character Reading V3 N1 Jul-Sep 1926 | |
| Character Reading V3 N2 Oct-Dec 1926 | |
| Character Reading V3 N4 Apr-Jun 1927 | |
| Character Reading V4 N1 Jul-Sep 1927 | |
| Character Reading V4 N2 Oct-Dec 1927 | |
| Character Reading V4 N4 May-Jun 1928 | |
| Character Reading V5 N1 Aug-Sep 1928 | |
| Character Reading V5 N2 Nov-Dec 1928 | |
| Character Reading V5 N3 Jan-Feb 1929 | |
| Character Reading V5 N4 May-Jun 1929 | |
| Character Reading V5 N5 July-Aug 1929 | |
| Character Reading V5 N6 Nov 1929 | |
| Character Reading V5 N7 Jan-Feb 1930 | |
| Character Reading V5 N8 Mar-Apr 1930 | |
| Character Reading V5 N10 Aug-Sep 1930 | |
| Character Reading V5 N11 Nov-Dec 1930 | |
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Character Reading was a character-analysis magazine anchored in phrenology, and unlike the philosophical 'faculties' that trip the panel elsewhere, its faculties are the real Fowlerian organs — firmness, acquisitiveness, secretiveness read from the head. Around that core it gathers the whole turn-of-century character-reading kit: astrology and horoscopy, name-numerology, and biochemic 'chemical types' diagnosed partly through diet. Its steady drumbeat of success, abundance, and prosperity reveals the purpose behind the diagnostics — vocational self-improvement and the marketing of self-knowledge as a route to worldly success. It belongs with the corpus's phrenology-and-character titles, tilted toward the New-Thought-era success trade. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Phrenology and Physiognomy |
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