17 MARCH 1928, Page 21

An original book on palmistry is a rare find :

one that dispenses with all mystical and occult jargon is still rarer. Such is The Hand and the Mind, by Mr. M. N. Laffan (Kegan Paul, 46. 6d.). The author has read widely in general literature, as well as practised his hobby extensively. He makes out a good case for a connexion between the two hands and the two hemispheres of the brain. Anyone interested in the subject should buy this book, for it is on a very different level to the fortune-telling manuals in which palmistry is usually treated as a kind of sister to astrology.

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