5 FEBRUARY 1887, Page 46

Palmistry ie a subject on which even an omniscient reviewer

cannot be expected to know very mach. Accordingly, we can do little more than chronicle the appearance of a good-looking volume, The Science of the Hand, translated from the French of Mons. C. S. d'Arpentigny by E. Heron-Allen. (Ward and Look.) It is a very curious, and, we may say, learned work. Whether it will make converts is more than we can say ; but no one can deny that it brings together a number of curious facts, and treats them with a certain characteristic sprightliness and freshness.