Excerpt from Standard Whist: An Exponent of the Principles and Rules of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist, as Adopted by the American Whist League, at the Ninth American Whist Congress, Convening at Chicago, July 10, 1899 The recent action of the American Whist League in the adoption of a standard system of play, which, while as the League distinctly states, is not intended to be mandatory, never thel'ess furnishes a tangible and recognized authority, is the most notable event, perhaps, which has taken place in the whist world since the inception of American Leads, and demon strates once more the universal tendency of the survival of the fittest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.