This early work by Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson was originally published in 1896 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Square of Sevens' is a non-fiction work on the subject of fortune-telling. Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson was born on the 23rd of July 1858 in New Jersey, America. Prime-Stevenson was a prolific pro-homosexuality author, also writing under the pseudonym of Xavier Mayne. Prime-Stevenson died of a heart attack in Lausanne on the 23rd of July 1942.