Abstract
DR. KUNZ'S wide knowledge and experience in connection with precious and semiprecious stones, and his familiarity with the voluminous literature dealing with the subject, afford a sufficient guarantee to all interested in gems and their “curious lore,” that the work he has now produced is one of exceptional value. On the title-page of this handsome volume the subjects to be dealt with in relation to gems are enumerated as “their sentiments and folk-lore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination, crystal-gazing, birth-stones, lucky stones, and talismans, astral, zodiacal, and planetary”—and this long list is far from exhausting the mass of extraordinary and fanciful ideas treated of in the book, and constituting one of the strangest illustrations of human credulity and love of the marvellous.
The Curious Lore of Precious Stones.
By Dr. G. F. Kunz. Pp. xiv + 406 + 63 plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1913.) Price 21s. net.
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J., J. The Curious Lore of Precious Stones . Nature 93, 105–106 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093105b0
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