PATTERSON SMITH REPRINT SERIES IN
CRIMINOLOGY, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS
A listing of publications in the SERIES will be found at rear
of volume
PUBLICATION NO. 96: PATTERSON SMITH REPRINT SERIES IN
CRIMINOLOGY, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS
THE GAMING TABLE:
ITS VOTARIES AND VICTIMS,
In all Times and Countries, especially in England
and in France.
BY
ANDREW STEINMETZ, ESQ.,
OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW;
FIRST-CLASS EXTRA CERTIFICATE SCHOOL OF MUSKETRY, HYTHE;
late OFFICER INSTRUCTOR MUSKETRY, THE QUEENS OWN LIGHT INFANTRY
MILITIA.
AUTHOR OF `THE HISTORY OF THE JESUITS,' `JAPAN AND HER PEOPLE,'
`THE ROMANCE OF DUELLING,' &., &.
`The sharp, the blackleg, and the knowing one,
Livery or lace, the self-same circle, run;
The same the passion, end and means the same —
Dick and his Lordship differ but in name.'
IN TWO VOLUMES. — VOL. II.
Montclair, New Jersey
PATTERSON SMITH
1969
Originally published 1870
Reprinted 1969 by
Patterson Smith Publishing Corporation
Montclair New Jersey
CONTENTS OF VOL. II.
- I. CHEVALIERS D'INDUSTRIE, OR POLITE SHARPERS1
- II. PROFESSIONAL GAMESTERS AND THEIR FRAUDS. 27
- III. ANECDOTES OF THE PASSIONS AND VICISSITUDES OF
GAMESTERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
- IV. ACTROCITIES, DUELS. SUICIDES, AND EXECUTION OF
GAMBLERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
- V. ODDITIES AND WITTICISMS OF GAMBLERS. . .133
- VI. THE GAMING CLUBS . . . . . . . . . . . .165
- VII. DOINGS IN GAMING HOUSES. . . . . . . . .193
- VIII. THE DOCTRINE OF PROBABILITIES APPLIED TO GAMBLING235
- IX. THE HISTORY OF DICE AND CARDS. . . . . .260
- X. PIQUET, BASSET, FARO, HAZARD, PASSE-DIX, PUT,
CROSS AND PILE, THIMBLE-RIG. . . . . . . . 302
- XI. COCK-FIGHTING. . . . . . . . . . . . . .335
- XII. THE TURF, HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, MORAL. . .351
- XIII. FORTUNE-TELLING BY CARDS (FOR LADIES). .370
- XIV. AMUSING CARD TRICKS. . . . . . . 393
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