Show HIS JUDGMENT AT FAULT one instance where balzac failed as a graphologist if there was one thing upon which balzac flattered himself more than another it was bis skill in reading character from handwriting but he made a sad mistake on one occasion A lady brought him an ex tract from the exercise book of a 12 fear old schoolboy and asked him for in opinion as to the youngster 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 judgment madame he said this child la thickheaded and frivolous he will never come to any good it he were my child I 1 would take him from school and put him to the plow then it was explained to the novel 1st that the specimen on which he had pronounced so severely was one of his own which had beeh discovered hidden away between the leaves of an old lesson book |