BOOK NOTICE by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 27, 1880

BOOK NOTICE.

By Editor

Dr. Joseph Simms has laid upon our table his work entitled Nature's Revelations of Character, or Physiognomy Illustrated. This is a study to which we must confess we have never given our attention, but Dr. S. has shown it to be quite worthy of attention if we may judge from a partial examination of his book, and the many testimonials from eminently scientific men and the best periodicals, both in the United States and Great Britain. Physiognomy has not heretofore been reduced to a system, as it has been by Dr. Simms. This may account for the very limited attention which has been given to it, as compared to kindred sciences, as well as for the interest which has been awakened in it by this author. The illustrations presented are certainly striking, and every reader must be interested in his work.

Dr. S. has received the highest encomiums as a lecturer both in this and foreign countries, which goes to show that he is master of this subject, to which he has devoted his life. The book is of 624 pages, for sale by Bancroft & Co., San Francisco.