PALACES OF SIN OR THE DEVIL IN SOCIETY - 1st 1902 PROSTITUTION GAMBLING WOMEN LITERATURE "The author's subhead of this

"The author's subhead of this curious and intriguing book at once attracts attention: "Secrets of a Strange Art as Practiced by the Natives of the United States

The minor arcana cards show gnomes

John Dee's Enochian system

it was in this work that the word "evolution" appears for the first time

"The Alchemists Handbook" and through the commentary begins to show the reader how to turn old and somewhat confusing alchemical manuscripts into useful pieces of laboratory instruction

PALACES OF SIN OR THE DEVIL IN SOCIETY - 1st 1902 PROSTITUTION GAMBLING WOMEN LITERATURE "The author's subhead of thisPALACES OF SIN OR THE DEVIL IN SOCIETY Book Details + Condition: National Book Concern (St. Louis, MO). First Edition, 1902. 333 pages, with illustrations. PALACES OF SIN was "written by a man who spent his fortune with lavish hand, but awoke from his hypnotic debauch of Societys shame, to wave the red flag of warning to his fellow man," that writer being "Colonel Dick Maple," the pseudonym of Robert Seth McCallen, founder of The National Rip Saw, a