The Detection of Forgery Part 9

LES MYSTeRES DE L'eCRITURE. Preface by Desbarrolles. Same Author.

THE HANDWRITING OF JUNIUS PROFESSIONALLY EXAMINED BY CHABOT. Edited by the Hon. E. TWISTLETON. John Murray. 1871.

This work is the only one hitherto published in England explaining the methods of the handwriting expert. Mons. Chabot, for many years the leading English expert, was commissioned by Mr. Twistleton to examine the handwriting of "Junius" with a view to deciding the authors.h.i.+p of the famous letters. The result was an exhaustive volume in which the process of handwriting a.n.a.lysis is ill.u.s.trated by thousands of examples.

The conclusion arrived at was that the writer of the "Junius" letters was Sir Philip Francis.