book in the world," as *'the Bible of Bibles," and therefore as

"the primitive revelation," does not detract from the claim of his general study, which — it should be added — is accompanied by numerous valuable plates, exhibiting Tarot codices, old and • new, and diagrams summarizing the personal thesis of the
writer and of some others who preceded him. The Tarot of the Bohemians is published at 6.?. by William Rider & Son, Ltd.
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Manuel Synthetique et Pratique du Tarot. Par Eudes Picard. 8vo, Paris, 1909. Here is yet one more handbook of the subject presenting in a series of rough plates a complete sequence of the cards. The Trumps Major are those of Court de Gebelin and for the Lesser Arcana the writer has had recourse to his imagination ; it can be said that some of them are curious, a very few thinly sug- gestive and the rest bad. The explanations embody neither re- search nor thought at first hand; they are bald summaries of the occult authorities in France, followed by a brief general sense drawn out as a harmony of the whole. The method of use is confined to four pages and recommends that divination should be performed in a fasting state. On the history of the Tarot,