THE STUDY OF PALMISTRY FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES Comte C. de Saint-Germain, A.B. LL. M. (Op rme Usivensier oF France) President of the simerican Chirologica! Society Cacorporated), and of the Nationa? Schoo! of Palmistry AUTHOR OF Hand Book of Modern Palmistry (1883), and of Practical Palisiry (88 thousand sold) ADOLPHE DESBARROLLES Over 1250 Original Illustrations and a Complete PALMISTIC DICTIONARY‘TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VoL. ster tbe Tile ot PALMISTIC DICTIONARY, wil be found st the Bad of Vote 1 an ‘scbonts ALPHABETICAL INDEX ofa in Otervntons inert n tha Wott ‘witha amber of Authorities, Deaioes Biopaptca Tete and Cromielerwcan sd Devicarion, Portrait of Mademoiselle Emma Caivé ceeeevees Taaeet AcE-TO-B8-READ. s+ =a ’ PART FIRST—PRELIMINARIES Ivraopueme Tae Ivrxopueriow, Lesnopuction ay Tae Late Ao, Dtsaannotits, 8 ‘Tue Mar oF re Hawn : Py PART SECOND—CHIROGNOMIC OBSERVATIONS. 33 Tax Has as a Waowe 3s Tae PGES sees cecs pitied 2 Tar Tawa : a ‘Tax Leapine Tress of Hanns . 6 (CatmocNowr uw Every Day Live 6 PART THIRD—THE MOUNTS OF THE HAND. a ‘Tux Mourts or tur Haxo.. i 8 Tax Siows ix Grwetate cee es ceeecsee - 9 Stowe ap Loves ox raz Mouxrs.. - 93 ‘Tar Stonarunss or rae Mousts.... PART FOURTH—CHIROMANTIC OBSERVATIONS. ‘Tur Luves ww Gewese, ‘Tux Vaonsmve oF mux Lnves How ro Recxox Tnet ix rue Haso, ‘Tax Lora or Li RE eee ete Lawes or Inrzonwce rom rar Mount or Vasus, tax Lower Mouxr oF Mans, on rae Lue oF Li (Continued in Volume 11)THE STUDY OF PALMISTRY FoR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES Vol. L.PREFACE-TO-DE-READ. ‘Among the tens of thousands of Amer jean readers who have given such a pleasant welcome to my syndicate ar- Uicles and to my elementary work entitled “PRACTICAL PALMISTRY," a large umber have done me the honor of com ‘musicating with me with 2 view of in- creasing their knowledge of this moot fascinating science Many have even visited Chicago and requested me to give them personal and exhaustive instraction in Palmistry. T finaly decided, 2 year ago, 10 comply with these soliciarions, and have devoted a few hours, every day, to the teaching of the science reodered famous in this KIX. Century by the splendidly successiut efforts of Desharroiles and d'Arpentigny. Class after class attended my studio and re crived favorably whatever conscientious instruction my twenty-nine years of ehi- rowophic studies entitled me to give them, ‘Typewriten copies ofthese lessons were distributed to the pupils, and gradually modified so as to suit almost any fair grade of intellect. They have now grown, to the size of a two-volume manual, and having stood well the test of actual and widely approved teaching, they are pre: sented 10 the public at large with large additions, modifcations and improve ments and with over 1,100 illstrations, ‘especially drawn for thie work ‘Asa patient and painstaking instrsctor and I may claim shat mich without fear of contradicion—I have aimed at the following reslt, which I failed co see realized in any book on Palmistry pub- lished to thie day 1. Clearness and absence of ueless shoot 2. System and thoroughly logical clase sification. — 3. Completeness, In this respect I may be allowed to state thatthe present book contains berween two and ten times ‘more relible observations than any work ever published in the English tongue For instance, in the two largest books, ‘of comparatively recent date, devoted to chirosophy or to the language of the hhand, I find that, concerning the Line of Life and the Lines of Infuence that prov ‘cred from it, one of these works con- tains 69 observations and the other 49, In this book, the same subject is treated lover 200 observations, all of the fist importance and all Ilustrated by means of one separate illustration for each indi-PREFACE-TO-BE-READ, To this wealth of technical information | the book, all the theorizing to which I T have added hundreds of actual cases | shall reat my readers. For this work from life, chosen from the untranslated | is not to belie its tie: its sole purpose ‘of Desbarrolles and others or from | isto teach you how to Read Hands ac- my own stock of experiences guarely An illustration accompanies each of | And now I will resume, for a moment, these most interesting faces, completing | my cap and gown and, after afew neces: the theory as fast as it is developed | sary explanations, I shall tell my pupils through the book. I soon found that in | —for the eaders ofthis book all become no other way ean the pupil's mind be | pupil of che author—what method to brought to grasp the intricacies of this | follow in the study of “THB PRAC- ‘most minute and ever varied study. | TICE OF PALMISTRY FOR PROFES- ‘As to Clearness and Absence of the- | SIONAL PURPOSES.” ovizing or poetizing (the later especially | Fist, donot allow the title ofthe book unbearable to the earnest student), Iwill | to worry you in the least. The word say that I have strictly avoided dispersing | professional has been incerted herein ‘my effors toward imparting knowledge | with an object, but certainly not to forthe sake of ventilating comme favorite | frighten you away. It simply means that doctrine, ether of iy own concoction or | every item of information needed to make the product of a more inventive brain. | of you = crepacted, refined and ceiable have even played false to my beloved | palmist eto be found within these pages. raster, Desbarrolles, so far as to decline | If, after the shady is over and completed, following him in his Astrological or | it suits your convenience to read hands Kabbalistic surmises and deductions. _| forafee, well and good: you are equipped Physiology T found loag ago—and T | for the task and the money paid you will, find every day—sufcient to ally explain | be Honestly earned. Should your cir- the "Mysteries of the Hand.” Ta fact, I cumstances or tastes keep you away from am ready to declare, right here, that, in | the profession, you will ell possess a ‘my humble judgment, there are no such | chorough knowledge of indisputable things as “Mysteries of the Hand” and | value, whose practice, among your that Chiromaney—the less explainable | fiends, will render it daily more precious branch of Palmistry—is fast leaving the | to you and to them, ranks of Occult Scienees to enter the | Next to this first—indispensable— honored family of Sciences, no langer “a | statement, [et me make another, ad- poor, disdained and distant relation” | dressed especially to thote who have ‘Therefore, inthe Introduction, you will | never perased any worle on Palmistry, find Desbarrolies’ admirable reasoning | T wish them to clearly understand that about the Physiological explanations of | this book, extaustive though it be, takes Palmistry, and this will constitute, with | mattere ab ovo, from the star, and will ‘avery few paragraphs scattered through | be just 3s profitable to an absolute be-PREFACE-TO-BE-READ. « sinner, who does not even krow the name of a Mount of a Line, than to one who has dabbled in Palmistry to while away | anille hour. In fat, I truly believe that the present work will prove & great deal casi to understand and assimilate than many so-called Palmistry Primers, so moth simpler in appearance. In euch ‘matter, classification is the lantern that lights the way, and, if is thorough and based on logic, the smaller of greater snamber of objects (or ideas) to be clasi- fied is comparatively unimportant, However, this allusion to beginners brings me to my thied and last piece of advice, which T may entitle How to Stuly this Book. © Read itslowly, Do not skim over pate and chapters as if the Bre ware ia the house and you had just a minute left to reach the very last line 2. Do not atemot to read further than Pare First Preliminaries" before be. ing absolutely conversant with tne Physi. ology of Palmistry, as aid down by Dese bhrrolles, and with the Map of the Hand. Let every technical term—and there are ‘but few-—be branded in your mind once far all, before attempt them ‘ _In_your Sctt reading of the Book leave out the folowing chapters and in- Terspersed paragraphs: ‘The Leading Types of Hands, ‘The Signatures of the Mounts, ‘The Cases (ix smaller type) scattered through the book, ‘The Lines and Signs on Fingers and Thumb, and, nally, ig t interpret | ‘The Palmistic Dieiona ‘Reserve those for a sezond, leisurely reading, You will efjoy them better ‘tod itis only then that they will prove really profitable 4 Resd consecutively and refrain from Tooking ahead &0 satisly your—or somebody alse's—euriosity, This jump- ing from one half-digested subject to an- other isthe surest way w get tired—it not disgusted—with the whole study. Remember that Palmistry is a language and that it has to be learned, tke any other language, by gradually assimila ing, frst the elements—the lertere— thea the syllables, the words, the seme fences, the paragraphs, the pages, the volumes. Fast work, in this eas, s no Work at ally indeed, it has destroyed the “ambitions oi than any other mistake ever made by them, §. Finally, when you will have de cided to take this book as your Guide to Palmistry, atach yourself to it with a will, until you Rave mastered fe con- tents from cover to cover. While per- orming this task do oot open any other work on the subject; listen 9 no other teacher, This safeguard against a “con fusion of tongues” applies just as trly to any book and any teacher you may choose instead of the prevent ones ‘There can be but one commander, when a fortress is tobe stormed tor at a time into the realms of such a. delicate science a5 Modera, Orthodox Palmistry, To these few paragraphs of advice, warning, encouragement, there remains Ff more would-be pslaiats2 PREFACE-TO.BE-READ, only for me to add my carmest wishes | d!Arpentigny and Deaberrotes, the oly that you wil extract from the study of | teachers worth listening t, the sole and “THE PRACTICE OF PALMISTRY | direct inpirerg of the preseat book FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES” some of the delight and mental proft— T have derived from my long and dai Intercourse with the masterly works of Cours C. px Sanwr-Geasain, henge, November 21PART FIRST Preliminaries “From a carory examination of the anal weld. we may gtr the inporent concen tat ‘nom ue suactrt of tm exes we may obi & srplta ight int the ete oni ot ‘mal; and thes the paws faralbed with sarp race ces of tbe Sen Indie at soc orl is zoo toes, ts power Jwt n eaaatsteag of ate; wade fram ce clef cf te ‘ow tbe complaindsrctre of fa samach, the cele peclerien of Jawa and it vege det ‘Sty with qual earnty be pdt" T2 and Phreologically Comsidered