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anecdote and history in such a skillful way 

 that a hero and heroine seem all that is 

 lacking to make of it a good bit of fiction. 



The so-called science of phrenology is set 

 forth at considerable length in a book by 

 Nelson Sizer, entitled How to Study Strangers 



(Fowler & Wells, New York). It is a curi- 

 ous hodgepodge of very doubtful inferences 

 clothed in scientific language. The body of 

 the work is made up of portraits and short 

 biographical and descriptive sketches of not- 

 able persons, written from the phrenologist's 

 standpoint. 



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