1. PALMISTRY AS A SCIENCE. 2. ANCIENT PALMISTRY. 3. THE MODERN SCIENCE AND ITS HIGH PRIEST. 4. SIGNS ATTACHED TO THE PALM OF THE HAND. 5. THE THUMB. 6. HARD AND SOFT HANDS. 7. THE HAND IN CHILDREN. 8. SPATULED HAND. 9. THE ENGLISH HAND. 10. THE NORTH AMERICAN HAND. 11. THE ARTIST HAND. 12. THE USEFUL HAND. 13. CHINESE HANDS. 14. THE HAND OF THE PHILOSOPHER. 15. THE HAND PSYCHICAL. 16. MIXED HANDS. 17. THE FEMALE HAND. 18. M. DESBARROLLES AND THE ADVANCED SCHOOL. 19. PALMISTRY IN RELATION TO THE FUTURE. 20. THE THREE WORLDS OF CHIROMANCY. 21. THE MOUNTS AND LINES. 22. THE LINE OF THE HEAD. 23. THE LINE OF LIFE—OF SATURN—OF THE LIVER—OF VENUS. 24. THE LINE OF THE SUN. 25. THE RASCETTE. 26. THE SEVEN CAPITAL SINS. 27. POWER OF INTERPRETATION. 28. THE ASTRAL FLUID. 29. THE CHILDREN OF THE RULING PLANETS: THEIR CHARACTERS. 30. READINGS OF THE HANDS OF CELEBRATED MEN AND WOMEN. 31. M. D’ARPENTIGNY AND THE GIPSIES—MR. BORROW’S RESEARCHES. 32. GIPSY CHIROMANTS. 33. THE HAND AS AFFECTED BY MARRIAGE. 34. CONCLUSION. “The glove-makers ought to present the author with a service of gold plate. He will be a rash man who lets anybody see his bare hands after this. We are anxious to find a lost pair of gloves before we go out for a breath of fresh air after such an exhausting study as this book has furnished us.”—_Sheffield and Rotherham Independent._ “Palmistry, chiromancy, and their kindred studies, may be mystical, indeed, but never unworthy. There is more in them than the mass imagine, and to those who care to wade into them. Mr. Craig will prove himself a capital guide.”—_Manchester Weekly Post._ “The illustrations are curious. Those whose care to study the matter of hands, fortunate or unfortunate, will find abundant materials here.”—_Literary World._ “It is certainly a ‘handy book,’ for hands of every class are so carefully described that all the signs of the palms may be readily ‘got up’ by those who wish to deal in this simplest of the dark sciences.”—_Publishers’ Circular._ “The work is of surpassing interest.”—_Aberdeen Journal._ “Gives the fullest rules for interpreting the lines and marks on the hands, fingers, and wrists, as well as the points of character indicated by their shape. We can imagine this little book, which is illustrated by five diagrams, being a source of a large amount of amusement.”—_Bookseller._ =Manuals of Self-Culture for Young= Men and Women. 1. =The Secret of Success.= See page 10. 2. =Plain Living and High Thinking.= See page 12. 3. =Woman’s Work and Worth.= See page 7. 4. =Hood’s Guide to English Versification.= See page 23. 5. =Landmarks of English Literature.= See page 7. _Dedicated, by express permission, to Sir FREDERICK LEIGHTON, P.R.A._ PRINTED IN BROWN INK, WITH TWELVE FLORAL ILLUSTRATIONS, AND THE BINDING DESIGNED BY “LUKE LIMNER,” F.S.A.