The Decline and Fall of Whist
by John Petch Hewby
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hewby, John Petch, 1835-1896
- Title
- The Decline and Fall of Whist: An Old Fashioned View of New Fangled Play
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Emmy, MFR, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images digitized by the Google Books Library Project ( books.google.com) and generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure
- Subject
- Whist
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 54145
- Release Date
- February 10, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE DECLINE AND FALL OF WHIST
- 2.Untitled
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.PREFACE.
- 5.THE DECLINE AND FALL OF WHIST.
- 6.WOODEN ARRANGEMENT, NO. 1.—THE PETER. — THE ECHO.
- 7.WOODEN ARRANGEMENT, NO. 2.
- 8.THE MODERN GAME.
- 9.WOODEN ARRANGEMENT, NO. 3.
- 10.WOODEN ARRANGEMENT, NO. 4.
- 11.SOME PILLARS OF THE EDIFICE. — PILLAR NO. 1.—THE PHILOSOPHY OF WHIST. — PILLAR NO. 2.—ILLUSTRATIVE WHIST-HANDS. — PILLAR NO. 3.—DEVELOPMENTS, EXTENSIONS OF PRINCIPLE, AND GENERALIZATIONS.
- 12.WHITTLING AT THE SMALL END OF NOTHING. CONVENTIONS AND ELABORATE RULES FOR EXCEPTIONAL PLAY. — A WHIST-PLAYER’S WAIL.
- 13.CONCLUSION.
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