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

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.