Character Reading
Character Reading

Author: Theron Q. Dumont

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

Published: 2007-03-01

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1602060908

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Does character determine appearance? Can the shape of a person's face-or the bumps on his head-provide insight into intelligence and personality? What effect, ultimately, do our thoughts and attitudes and personality have on how we look? It's a question that artists and scientists (and dictators) have grappled with for ages, and one that can lead down increasingly slippery slopes. But in pre-Freudian, pre-Holocaust America, when phrenology was still semi-respectable, New Thought pioneer William Walker Atkinson (writing as Theron Q. Dumont) wrote what he hoped would be the ultimate guide to the Science of Character Reading. Today some of his findings must be taken with a grain of salt, but this 1919 guide is a fascinating catalogue-replete with drawings and diagrams-of the many temperaments, characteristics, faces and expressions of that remarkably complex species known as the human race. American writer WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON (1862-1932) was editor of the popular magazine New Thought from 1901 to 1905, and editor of the journal Advanced Thought from 1916 to 1919. He authored or co-authored over a hundred books under a variety of pseudonyms, including Yogi Ramacharaka, Theodore Sheldon and Theron Q. Dumont. His other works include Mental Therapeutics, The Solar Plexus, and The Power of Concentration.

School Essays And Letters
School Essays And Letters

Author: H. Martin

Publisher: S. Chand Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 8121905036

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The object of this little book is to supply students with a number of model essays and letters on a variety of subjects The language of the letters and essays is very simple and easy-to-understand. After reading this book, students will be able to write e

Victorian Poetry Now
Victorian Poetry Now

Author: Valentine Cunningham

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-06-03

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 1444340425

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This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and contemporary contexts. Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and offers dazzling close readings of a number of well-known poems Draws on the work of major Victorian poets and their works as well as many of the less well-known poets and poems Reads poems and poets in the light of both Victorian and modern critical concerns Places poetry in its personal, aesthetic, historical, and ideological context Organized in terms of the Victorian anxieties of self, body, and melancholy Argues that rhyming/repetition is the major formal feature of Victorian poetry Highlights the Victorian obsession with small subjects in small poems Shows how Victorian poetry attempts to engage with the modern subject and how its modernity segues into modernism and postmodernism