Excerpt from Fingers and Fortune: A Guide-Book to PalmistryA book on any subject which, like Chirornancy, has been so ably, and, from the vastness of the volumes, apparently so exhaustively treated, may need some apology, and this apology lies, I think, in the fact that of late years only one man has really and deeply considered the subject.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.