Show HIS JUDGMENT AT FAULT one instance where balzac fa led as a graphology st if there was one thing upon which balzac flattered himself more than another it was his skill in reading character from handwriting but he made a sad mistake on one De occasion caslon A lady brought him an ex tract from the exercise book of a 12 earold schoolboy and asked him for in opinion as to the youngster youngsters s char acter and prospects balzac inquired whether the child was her own an in the negative he examined he exercise carefully and delivered als madame he said this child is th ck headed and frh fria olous he will never come to any good it if he were my child I 1 would take him from school and put him to the plow plon then it was explained to the novel fat 1st that the specimen on which he had pronounced so severely was one ot of his own which had been discovered hidden away between the leaves of an old lesson book |