The author of this book, Mr. Saudek, is said to be one of the three leading experts on handwriting and his publications have been translated into many languages. The present book has been published in England, Germany, Holland, and Czechoslovakia, and other foreign editions are being prepared.

Although the reviewer is not capable of making a critical evaluation in the field of this specialty, it is apparent to anyone that the author has attempted to make a strictly scientific investigation of this highly complicated function. From the start he “set himself the task of accepting none of the graphological doctrines hitherto accepted which cannot be