15 The treatise referred to by Vance was Handbuch für Untersuchungsrichter als System der Kriminalistik. [↩︎]
16 Recently I ran across an article by Doctor George A. Dorsey, professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, and author of “Why We Behave Like Human Beings,” which bore intimate testimony to the scientific accuracy of Vance’s theory. In it Doctor Dorsey said: “Poker is a cross-section of life. The way a man behaves in a poker game is the way he behaves in life. . . . His success or failure lies in the way his physical organism responds to the stimuli supplied by the game. . . . I have studied humanity all my life from the anthropologic and psychological view-point. And I have yet to find a better laboratory exercise than to observe the manners of men as they see my raise and come back at me. . . . The psychologist’s verbalized, visceral, and manual behaviors are functioning at their highest in a poker game. . . . I can truthfully say that I learned about men from poker.” [↩︎]
Transcriber’s Notes
This transcription follows the text of the first edition published by A. L. Burt Company and Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1926. However, the following alterations have been made to correct what are believed to be unambiguous errors in the text:
- Two occurrences of missing quotation marks have been corrected.
- The occurrence of “deliberatly” in Chapter XI has been corrected to “deliberately”.
- The phrase “find and dandy” in Chapter XII has been corrected to “fine and dandy”.
- The dateline of “Tuesday, September 16” on Chapter XXIX has been corrected to “Tuesday, September 18”.