This article is part of the Divination Hub . The American scholar Hardin Craig (1875 – 1968), editor of The Works of John Metham (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1916), provides a good first assessment of the literature on Western palmistry. His first impressions are mostly accurate, such as noting how many chiromancers list many ancient and modern authorities on the subjects of chiromancy and physiognomy, many of whom either did not write about them at all, wr