Excerpt from The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist As an amusement, Whist stands equally high. Consider its immense variety. A hand will last only a few minutes; we may have a hundred Of them in an evening; and yet, throughout a player's whole life, no two similar ones will ever occur! Each one will present some novel feature, Ofi'ering special interest of the most diversified kind. Some times the interest lies in your own cards, some times in your partner's, sometimes in those of your adversaries. Sometimes you have almost nothing to do, sometimes everything turns on your play. The mixture of the unknown with the known gives unbounded scope for amusing speculation; the admirable combination Of volition and chance affords a still wider field for observant interest indeed, some philosophical players make the rubber a fertile field for the study of human character, for the disclosure Of which it is proverbially favorable. 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.