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    The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note
    The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note
    The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note
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    The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note

    By Edward Prime-Stevenson

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note - Edward Prime-Stevenson

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Square of Sevens, by E. Irenaeus Stevenson

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: The Square of Sevens

      An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note

      Author: E. Irenaeus Stevenson

      Release Date: October 31, 2006 [EBook #19687]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SQUARE OF SEVENS ***

      Produced by Ruth Hart ruthhart@twilightoracle.com

      [Transcribed by Ruth Hart ruthhart@twilightoracle.com]

      [Transcriber's note: for this HTML edition I changed all the sidebars to section headings. Also in the paragraph starting Let it be minded... I changed Sex in Court Cards to Six in Court Cards.  All other spelling remains the same.]

      THE SQUARE OF SEVENS

      AN AUTHORITATIVE SYSTEM OF CARTOMANCY

      WITH A PREFATORY NOTICE

      BY E. IRENAEUS STEVENSON

      NEW YORK

      HARPER & BROTHERS

      PRINTERS & PUBLISHERS

      MDCCCXCVII

      Copyright, 1896, by HARPER & BROTHERS

      All rights reserved

      TO JOHN DAVIS ADAMS

      this new forth-setting of an old mystery is cordially offered.

      Editorial Preface

      'Tis easy as lying.—Hamlet

      It is safe to presume that even the most inquisitive book-hunters of the present day, and few of the fellowship during two or three generations past, have encountered the scarce and curious little volume here presented, as in a friendly literary resurrection—Robert Antrobus's The Square of Sevens, and the Parallelogram. Its mathematical title hardly hints at the amusement that the book affords. With its solemn faith in the gravity of its mysteries, with its uncertain spellings and capital-icings such as belong to even the Eighteenth Century's early part, with its quaint phrases and sly observations (all the time sticking strictly close to business), it has a literary character, as well as me occult, that is quite its own.

      Fortune-telling with cards and belief in fortune-telling with cards—like a hundred greater and lesser follies of the mind—were straws floating along the current of British life, intellectual and social, during the reign of George the Second. This was the case, in spite of the enlightening influences of religion, science, and philosophy. Modish society was addicted to matters over which argument was hardly worth while—in which respect we find modish society the same in all epochs. Our ancestresses particularly were often charming women, and almost as often sensible women; but, like the men of Athens, they were too superstitious. Often were they such in a fond and amusing degree. Lady Betty or Lady Selina—for that matter, even Sir Tompkin and my lord Puce—might be spirited men and women of the world. But they did not repudiate the idea of ghosts. They abhorred a mirror's breakage. They disliked a Friday's errand. They shuddered over a seven-times sneeze or at a howling dog at midnight. And the gentle sex, especially, would and did tell fortunes almost as jealously as play quadrille and piquet. Let us be courteous to them. Let us remember that Esoteric Buddhism, Faith Healing, and Psychic Phenomena were not yet enjoying systematic cultivation and solemn propagandism; and that relatively few dying folk were allowed to go on with their dying as part of a process of healing which excludes medicine and insists on the conviction that the invalids are not ill!

      But to our Square of Sevens—with which even a Gallio may deign to be diverted—especially if in using it the air is found to be full of coincidences. The story of the book is already alluded to, as odd.

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