PART ONEAnalysis and InterpretationChapter L THE VARIOUS TYPES OF HANDS AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS"WHAT, will these hands ne'er be clean? Here's the smell of blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."More truly than she knew, was the sign of murder on Lady Mac-beth's hand. In people's hands are all their buried hopes, their wants, their loves, their passions-the best and worst they have ever done or ever hope to do. If you can read the stories in their hands, you will know your friends and enemies even better than they know themselves.One of the few things which modern, scientific hand analysis has retained from the lore of_ ancient palmistry is the classification of human hands by their shapes. Though various students of the hand have divided their subject into as many as 170 typical divisions, most authorities agree on seven basic types, each with its characteristic traits.THE ELEMENTARY HANDThe elementary hand belongs to the simpleTable of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I TUE ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF THE IIANDS; i types of hands; ELEMENTARY CONIC SQUARE SPATULATE KNOTTY POINTED COMBINED TYPES MIXED; h fingers; LONG AND SHORT WIDTH AND CONTOUR FLEXIBILITY CROOKED DOMINANT PHALANXES JUPITER FINGER SATURN FINGER APOLLO FINGER MERCURY FINGER INTERPRETATION; m thumb; LARGE AND SMALL SETTING PHALANXES PHALANX OE REASON BASE PHALANX CHARACTERISTIC SHAPES FLEXIBILITY; iv palm; HOLLOW LARGE AND SMALL LEFT AND RIGHT; v mounts of the hand; MOUNT JUPITER MOUNT SATURN MOUNT APOLLO MOUNT MERCURY MOUNT LUNA MOUNT VENUS THREE MOUNTS OF MARS; vi lines of the palm '; COLOR QUALITY TIME AND AGE IN THE HAND; vii line of life viii line of head; lx line of heart x line of destiny; xi line of apollo xii lines of sex influence; LINES OF FERTILITY; CONTENTS Continued; XIII LINE OF HEALTH OR HEPATICA 71; XIV