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Title: Palmistry for All

Author: Cheiro

Release Date: January 29, 2007 [EBook #20480]

Language: English

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Cheiro]

PALMISTRY

FOR ALL

CONTAINING NEW INFORMATION
ON THE STUDY OF THE
HAND NEVER BEFORE
PUBLISHED

BY

CHEIRO

_WITH A PREFACE TO AMERICAN READERS_

_AND_

_WITH UPWARDS OF SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS_

G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK LONDON

COPYRIGHT, 1916
BY
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS

Published, May, 1916

Twenty-second Impression

Made in the United States of America

PREFACE

TO THE AMERICAN EDITION

There is no country in the world where the "study of character" is more
indulged in than in the United States of America. During my many visits
there I could not help remarking how even the "hardest headed" business
men used any form of this study that they could get hold of to help them
in their business dealings with other men and also in endeavouring to
ascertain the character of their clerks and employees.

In looking over the records of my career I find that in the course of my
visits to America I gave private lessons to the heads of two hundred and
seventy business establishments in New York, one hundred and thirty-five
in Boston, and three hundred and forty-two in Chicago.

All these men were large employers of labour and what they principally
wanted was, to have some help beyond that of their own judgment in
dealing with those with whom they came in contact in the regular course
of their business careers. In no other country did I find the same
interest taken in the study of character from a practical standpoint.

It is for this reason that I write a special Preface for this Edition,
believing as I do that my American readers will appreciate the added
information I may be able to give regarding the obtaining by a mere
glance at a hand a quick