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Although psychoanalytic insight and methods have offered the most thorough instruments for judging personality, short cut and haphazard methods do not have to be thrown into the discard. Hence the value of a work of this kind.
As Dr. Lewis emphasizes in his preface: “The present book attempts to bring European Graphology and American Psychology into creative cooperation. This has become possible through the discovery made by one of the authors that the subjective ratings of rhythm utilized previously by the European graphologists could be replaced by an objective scale, ranging from extreme contraction to extreme release. This scale serves as the common denominator between the subjective ratings of such qualities as form, contour, and the objective measures of height, width, and slant of letters. With the use of this scale, the degree of rhythm exhibited by a person's handwriting can be evaluated in an objective manner, so that two independent judges would arrive at closely similar results. In the present urgent need for more reliable methods of testing personality,