FOR CARD-LOVERS
■How did they play cards when Nell Gwynn Tuled the ruler of England? Or when George IV was Eegent, and gambling at cards reached perhaps its zenith in England: when Charles James Fox, a Lord of the Admiralty at 21, lost £140,000 in less than three years, when £10,000 in specie was "the usual amount" on the table at Almack's" Club before the game began, and the players ■ "wore high-crowned straw hats adorned, with flowers and ribbons, and masks to conceal their -emotions.'' These and similarly interesting subjects are deal with by Basil Dalton in a little book called "Concerning Cards" (Richards). At the conclusion are given twelvo famous hands of literary, historic, or simply intrinsic value, such as tho first recorded hand of whist, a game of piquet, played 250 years ago—or to be up to date, a hand of contract on the Eiviera which brought in close on 3000 points! This excellent little book is likely to be widely appreciated by all card players.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 111, 13 May 1933, Page 17
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FOR CARD-LOVERS
Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 111, 13 May 1933, Page 17
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