30 JANUARY 1892, Page 12

ashamed to say that it is beyond him. "The Tarot

Pack of Cards, transmitted by the Gypsies from generation to generation, is the primitive book of initiation." " Papus " interprets it, and so supplies Initiates with "an absolute key to occult science." The uninitiated are not left wholly out in the cold. They " will find in it the explanation of the lofty philosophy and science of ancient Egypt," and this really is no trifle; while "ladies," whom, of course, it is idle to describe as either initiated or uninitiated, "are enabled to practise the use of the divining Tarot." We wish that we could give our readers some help, but these things are beyond us.