Practical Palmistry: A Treatise on Chirosophy (Classic Reprint)

Preface to this volume, wliich might fairly be called a record of personal experiences in amateur Palmistry. I wish to repeat here what I have asserted in the body of the work, that the statements of actual cases are perfectly true and authentic, reproduced so far as memory serves me in detail, but, in facts, true. To check the inevitable, and pardonable, suggestion as to failing memory I quote from a letter recently received from a resident at Folkestone whom I have never seen, nor had I heard of him till he sent me photographs of his palms requesting my explanation. His letter, dated June 7, 189s, is, in part, as follows in reply to my brief and avowedly imperfect delineation :S oabsolutely correct are some of your remarks that, if I were not aware that my name is unknown to you, I should almost have thought that you must have known something of my past history. I can perfectly understand that the omission in the photographs of some of the smaller lines, and of the shadings, would tend to mislead .. .: He proceeds, after confirming the perfect correctness of most of the statements I made, thus :Y our remarks as to overwork, fate, illness, influence of others, the following will prove to be absolutely correct .. ..
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