THE SCIENCE OF CHIROMANCY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 388, 13 February 1880, Page 2

THE SCIENCE OF CHIROMANCY.

[Cdista H&key in the Washington Republic]

The comcal-fm»ered hand is of all the seven types, the least practical. It is the hand of the post, of the artist : the institutional hand whieh has marvellous insight, dreams vividly, and has mora perceptions than executive ability in gveryd&y affairs, It has little sense of order, leaving the prosaic work of arrangement and exact details to the square and spatulated fiafsx'S, In art, the pointed fingers belong |k> the domain hi the imagination aa Raphael and Corregio. Alhsrfc Dtjfer h&d the square fingers, and Rubens and Rembrandt, whose men and women age " e&riMy of the earth," had the sp&iulated fingers. This hand takes kindly to the picturesque. It loves novelty, m quickly attracted, •working with dash and 6Sth«gias«i, rather than cool skill and fore®. It is the impulsive hand ; $, hand of moods and tenses, passing quickly'from exaltation to despair. It is "not fit to command, and. not know how to obty. This artistic hand appears in war, and the general who possess* it care? more for glory than for success. They are th& white-plumed knight, the men who lead forlorn hopes, and whose inspirations are often translated into victories. To this same conical type belong the hands of the lyrical poets and sentimental novelists such as Yietor Hugo, Lamartine, George Sand, and Chateaubriand. Byron had the very pointed fingers, and was proud if the delicacy of his hand, sharing the popular opinion that it vrss a mark of aristocratic birth. To the chiraraont, however, the hand is commended by strength and harmony rather than extreme delicacy.

Barest and most beautiful of all the typss is the psychical hand. It is delicate ia proportion to the person; has a medium, paba, the fingers without knots, or only moderately knotted, the outer phalange ilong and philberied, the thumb small and [elegant. It does not belong exclusively 'to the titled and presumably cultured classes. Bare as it is like.the art instinct, universal, and is sometimes found among

the most primitive classes. The psychical hands do not, by choice concern ; themselves giratly in certain great crises, when the square and spatul&ted fingers, with all their administrative ability, have wrought confusion, the swift psychical hands have eoms to the rescue and ransomed art civilization and religion, Milton, Schiller ,'Goethe," Swedenborg had the'' psychical | hand, ■-..■■