Project Gutenberg 2025-04-14 Public domain in the USA. 317 Skinner, W. E. (William E.) Skinner, William E. Mind reading : $b How to read people's thoughts $aBoston :$bA. B. Courtney, $c1896. Multum in parvo library, vol. 3, no. 29, April 1896. Demian Katz, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.) "Mind reading : How to read people's thoughts by W. E. Skinner" is a practical guide written in the late 19th century. The book belongs to the category of instructional manuals and is aimed at demystifying the performance of mind reading, particularly as it was popular in parlors and stage acts of the era. Rather than exploring psychic or mystical interpretations, the book focuses on the technique called "muscle reading" and explains how so-called mind readers achieve their feats in public exhibitions. The likely topic centers on exposing and teaching the practical methods behind apparent mind reading tricks. The main content of the book provides step-by-step explanations of how to execute popular mind reading acts, such as finding hidden objects, identifying keys on a piano, or writing names thought of by others. Skinner clarifies that these feats rely on observing involuntary muscle movements and resistance from the person whose mind is supposedly being read, rather than any supernatural ability. He offers practical advice on choosing compliant subjects, practicing techniques, and improving performance. Alongside the main instructional material, the book also contains a number of unrelated anecdotes, advertisements, and light-hearted poems, making it both a manual and a periodical filled with miscellaneous content typical of affordable publications of its time. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:639114 20250118060739skinner 1896 us Reading ease score: 80.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Magic tricks -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. GV Text Category: Humour Category: How To ... 50060 2025-07-30T05:33:30.614244 text/html 25973 2025-04-14T18:08:03 text/html 268146 2025-07-30T05:33:33.469229 application/epub+zip 267267 2025-07-30T05:33:31.191217 application/epub+zip 89996 2025-07-30T05:33:30.886220 application/epub+zip 294100 2025-07-30T05:33:35.308245 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 278557 2025-07-30T05:33:33.178228 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 37859 2025-07-30T05:33:30.454236 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17999 2025-04-14T18:08:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15522 2025-07-30T05:33:35.449221 application/rdf+xml 21379 2025-07-30T05:33:30.984255 image/jpeg 3313 2025-07-30T05:33:30.933216 image/jpeg 377879 2025-07-30T05:33:30.624222 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog