The Gaming Table, Vol. I
by Andrew Steinmetz
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About this eBook
- Author
- Steinmetz, Andrew, 1816-1877
- Title
- The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 1 (of 2)
- Credits
- Produced by Mike Lough, and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
- Subject
- Gambling
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 466
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/466
- Release Date
- March 1, 1996
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE GAMING TABLE:
- 2.By Andrew Steinmetz, Esq.,
- 3.PREFACE.
- 4.Contents — THE GAMING TABLE.
- 5.CHAPTER I. THE UNIVERSAL PASSION OF GAMING; OR, GAMING ALL THE WORLD OVER.
- 6.CHAPTER II. GAMBLING AMONG THE ANCIENT HINDOOS.—A HINDOO LEGEND AND ITS MODERN
- 7.CHAPTER III. GAMBLING AMONG THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, PERSIANS, AND GREEKS.
- 8.CHAPTER IV. GAMING AMONG THE ANCIENT ROMAN EMPERORS.
- 9.CHAPTER V. GAMBLING IN FRANCE IN ALL TIMES.
- 10.CHAPTER VI. THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN GAMING IN ENGLAND.
- 11.CHAPTER VII. GAMBLING IN BRIGHTON IN 1817.
- 12.CHAPTER VIII. GAMBLING AT THE GERMAN BATHING-PLACES.—— — BADEN AND ITS CONVERSATION HOUSE.
- 13.CHAPTER IX. GAMBLING IN THE UNITED STATES.
- 14.CHAPTER X. LADY GAMESTRESSES.
- 15.CHAPTER XI. GAMBLING POETS, SAVANTS, PHILOSOPHERS, WITS, AND STATESMEN.
- 16.CHAPTER XII. REMARKABLE GAMESTERS. ——MONSIEUR CHEVALIER.
- 17.CHAPTER XIII. THE LOTTERIES AND THEIR BEWILDERMENTS.
- 18.CHAPTER XIV. THE LAWS AGAINST GAMING IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. — 1. ANCIENT ROME.
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