“It would be very easy to write at greater length than we have done in praise of ‘Pembridge’s’ little book. But we have said enough to indicate its nature and scope; and we feel sure that any of our readers who may meet with it will endorse our verdict that it is a real addition to the literature of Whist.”—Australasian.
CONTENTS.
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| LECTURE I.—Introductory | [1] |
| LECTURE II.—The Lead | [11] |
| LECTURE III.—The Play of the Second, Third, and Fourth Hand | [26] |
| LECTURE IV.—Discarding, and its Difficulties | [32] |
| LECTURE V.—The Discard from the Strongest Suit (Part I.; Part II.) | [46] |
| LECTURE VI.—The Eleven Rule | [55] |
| LECTURE VII.—The Peter and its Peculiarities | [59] |
| LECTURE VIII.—False Cards, Logic, Luck | [69] |
| LECTURE IX.—Whist as an Investment | [74] |
| LECTURE X.—On Things in General | [81] |
| LECTURE XI.—Thinking | [93] |
| LECTURE XII.—Temper | [99] |
| LECTURE XIII.—Deterioration of Whist, its Causes and Cure | [105] |
| BUMBLEPUPPY IN EXCELSIS | [111] |
| THE DOMESTIC RUBBER, Double Dummy | [113] |
| EPILOGUE I. | [115] |
| EPILOGUE II. | [117] |
PREFACE.
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These remarks are addressed to the young, in the hope that when they arrive at man’s estate they will use their best endeavours to do away with [Law 91].
To the present generation, already acquainted with “the Game,” I should no more presume to offer advice than I should presume to teach my lamented Grandmother to suck eggs, if she were still alive.
“To instruct them, no art could ever reach,
No care improve them and no wisdom teach.”