20 MAY 1899, Page 25

The Secrets of the Hand. By Maud Harries. (Digby, Long,

and Co. -2s. 6d.)—Miss Harries holds with "Scientific Palmistry," and tells us in this volume some of its principles. A frontispiece gives a chart of the hand with its various regions marked out, and the book itself gives the key by which the various phenomena may be interpreted. Palmistry is under a cloud ; a man may tell the fortune of an inquirer by examining the contour of the head ; the interpretatiOn of the hand is forbidden to him. Surely, whatever we may think of this art or of that, there is no little absurdity in the distinction.