Copyright, 1909, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Copyright, 1897, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
All Rights Reserved
October, 1914
PUBLISHERS’ NOTE.
This book is entirely original. It is the work of a single author, who has made the subject of games a life-long study, who keeps in touch with all new games, and with changes in old games. He has written the description of each game expressly for this book.
The treatment is systematic and uniform. The description of each game begins with the apparatus and the players, and then follows the natural course of play, step by step, until the end. Each part of the game is described in a separate paragraph, and every paragraph is preceded by catch-words in heavy-faced type, so that the entire work is in the nature of a dictionary, in which any part of any game can be found immediately.
All technical terms are accompanied by a full definition of their meaning, and are printed in full-face type.