FORTUNE-TELLERS AND THE CORONATION. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "]
Srn,—Will you allow me space to mention one cause of rejoicing in the King's Coronation ? I mean the discrediting of the fortune-tellers who have persistently prophesied that be would " reign but never be crowned." If the King were a person of less strength of mind and common-sense than he is, such a prediction might have had a very serious effect upon him when, on the eve of his Coronation, he had to submit to a dangerous operation. This most objectionable and mis- chievous form of money-getting, whether by means of palmistry, magic crystals, cards, or any other form of prediction, ought now to be thoroughly discredited and dis- couraged, and let us earnestly hope that it has received a blow from which it will not recover in our time, for the harm
it does cannot be told or realised.—I am, Sir, &c., J.
[All reasonable people rejoice with our correspondent at the signal and utter failure of the fortune-tellers, but they, we suppose, will take refuge with the " hedging " witch in Macbeth :—
"Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest tost."
—Ed. Spectator.]
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