Excerpt from The Grammar of PalmistryI have here made only a nosegay of culled ¿owers, and I have brought nothing of my own but the string that ties them. - montaigne.IN these days, when so many books on this favourite subject have already been offered to the reading public, it requires an apology on my part for thus introducing another to their notice, all the more as in the present volume no pretence is made to originality.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.