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PALMISTRY

... de Musset to arise it may be doubted if his sketchy work would be appreciated. Meanwhile, a bright little duologue like Palmistry is to be welcomed. Certainly, if Mr E. W. Gardiner and Miss Kate Rorke could not do justice to its modest merits, what actor ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1888
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 585 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE SCIENCE OF PALMISTRY

... set the author thinking, and her attention being turned to the subject, she produced a handbook to the curious science of palmistry, which is much the simplest and least pretentious of the three now before us. Without pretending to any absolute belief in ...

NEW BOOKS

... being largely bought and read. FiNGERS AND FORTUNE. Fingers and Fortune: a Guide B3ook to Palmistry. By Eveline Michell Farwell. (David Stott: 886.) Palmistry ? I don't think anything ot it, remarked an austere old lady one day it's jus, an excuse ...

NEW NOVELS

... There is no art, no character-drawing ; nothing but mawkish sentiment, chill-blooded love-making, and-palmistry. How can people dare to put palmistry into booksO it is as dead and buried as hypnotism. Miss Fordyce has no conception of what is meant by ...

LITERATURE

... curiously- remarks, the Lelsevers in palmistry are few. Aristotle and mrany other ancient writers had their serious attention attracted by it ; and among the modern Herder, D ealcac, and Desbarolles have stidied palmistry. It is rather *hard upon Herder ...

THE READER

... mounds on tie hands of certain Frenchmen bore out the theories of palmistry, and in her pamphlet, The Handbook of Palmistry (George Redway), liss tautghan does not pretend that palmistry is anything ?? than ''au moins, tres curieux. The terminology ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1883
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2323 | Page: 27 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE READER

... EARL OF C STE RS CHESHIRIE YEOMANRY The apparent revival of a belief in palmistry and other branches of occult science is one of the least cheering signs of our times. *Palmistry and Its Practical Uses, by Louise Cotton (George Redway), is one of the ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 1890
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2721 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MUSIC HALL CELEBRITIES

... authors on occult sciences, and has turned his knowledge to some account by the practice-strictly arnateur, of course-of palmistry. He is an earnest Mason, a Past Chief Ranger of the Foresters, a Buffalo, an Elk (a New York fraternity), and an Eccentric ...

Published: Saturday 11 March 1899
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 559 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

GREAT EASTERN DISPUTE SETTLED

... concessions are-propa'ly carried out, SUBTLE CRAFT 01 PALMISTRY. Three local phrenologists and palmists were fined at Bournemosth; on WednesI. day, 5, and costs for practismg subtle craft of palmistry with -intant to deceive her AlIaesty's 'sb:eets. '-The ...

AMUSEMENTS IN MORECAMBE

... dances are again included. Mr A. H. Brown is again E MI. C., and the sideshows are Edison'sCinematographe; Signor Rupert, palmistry expert-; Wincoop's baby incubators, &c. C WARWICK REVOLVMNO ToweR.-Manager, Mr H. Allerton.-This new attraction is now working ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 563 | Page: 23 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMUSEMENTS IN CARDIFF

... secures lie apolatise here. Lizzie Ha3ward warbles some attractive ballads. Herbert Albini, a clever conjuror and expert I. at palmistry, puzzles his audience. The Renads give a Mr musical and grotesque entertainment which is well received. Xelly Maguire is ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1890
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 488 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

AMUSEMENTS IN NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE

... The artists named were each and all equal to their respective roles. Each evening the smartly written comedietta entitled Palmistry served as a curtain-raiser. GAIETY VARIETY THEATRE.-Proprietor, Mr H. E. Moss ; Acting-Manager, Mr J. Pellow.-The strong ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1890
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 516 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture