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Originally Polish, the author has had psychological training in England. There is a fairly good acquaintance with the literature on psychology and constitution; an attempt is made to relate these and the field of personality to studies of the hand. Considerable of the literature is quoted; anatomical detail is given and numerous data about the hand from clinical medicine are mentioned. The effort to improve and add to this knowledge by further study, even to an examination of the creases and ridges so well known to palmistry, is entirely worthy. The author has given considerable time to this study and the purpose is to dispel rather than create any mystery about the subject. However this is the outer design of many books of sheer palmistry. The usual difficulty with such subjects is the great gap that lies between interpretation and verifiable data. The volume represents a definite increase in knowledge of the hand in relation to the body. That constitutional formations should manifest themselves in every organ of the body is not surprising. Thus the presence of Heberden's nodes is well known to the profession. To the medical profession the study of the hand will be important for the most part only in that it gives clues to disease disturbing the whole body. Modern medicine relies more upon mechanical instruments and less on the powers of direct observation. Clinical observation of a part or use of a machine is resorted to only if it gives information otherwise unobtainable. Perhaps it would be asking too much to demand such hard practicality of one interested in the hand. Interpretations of personality from anatomic studies are even more hazardous inasmuch as the gap from birth to adulthood is usually unknown