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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 of the early twentieth century, and it is the fullest example in this archive of what the trade had become by then. Its foundation is phrenology in the Fowler tradition, and its faculties are the real ones — firmness, amativeness, acquisitiveness read from the head — but phrenology is only one instrument in a kit. Physiognomy supplies character sketches drawn from a face; astrology supplies typing by birth chart; numerology is sold by post, seven numbers chosen at random with a birth date and a dollar returning a reading within the week; and a biochemic system diagnoses temperament through diet and the chemical constitution of the body. What binds the methods together is their purpose, announced on every page: to fit a person to an occupation and a life. Employers are shown how to judge a salesman from his appearance and readers how to know their own aptitudes. It belongs with the corpus's phrenological titles, tilted toward the vocational-guidance and success trade of its own decade. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Phrenology and Physiognomy | Self-Improvement and Success Literature |
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