Practical Palmistry

Excerpt from Practical Palmistry: A Treatise on Chirosophy Based Upon Actual Experiences There is little need for any Preface to this volume, which 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, 189 s, is, in part, as follows - in reply to my brief and avowedly imperfect delineation: "So absolutely 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: "Your remarks as to overwork, fate, illness, influence of others, the following will prove to be absolutely correct..." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.