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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

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Produced by Ruth Hart ruthhart@twilightoracle.com

[Transcribed by Ruth Hart ruthhart@twilightoracle.com]

[Transcriber's note: I have made several changes from the original text
for this online text edition. First, although I have not indicated
it here, in the original text the whole preface (with the exception
of the word dukkeripens) is italicized. Next, I have changed all the
sidebars to section headings. Next, the illustrations in the original
text consisted of rectangular graphs and numbers, and I have made
approximations of these diagrams with dashes and vertical bars.
The Master Column illustration (Fig. 13) originally had shading in
some of the rectangles, which I have indicated by X's. Finally, 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 Centur