Chapter XII: "according to Hoyle" 253-276

The original game played with cards--L'Ombre and its
successors--Manilla--The Matadores--Spadille--Nine of
Money--The game described in "Cranford"--Punto--
Primero--Philip of Spain--Piquet in England--Earl of
Northumberland's letters--Sidney papers--Sir Walter
Raleigh--The terms used in Primero--Its Italian
rules--Rabelais--Shakespeare's and other plays--Terms
used in Primero--The games that succeeded it--Mawe--
Noddy--Gleek--Terms and nicknames used--Ruff, Whisk or
Whist--Piquet--Its inventors, Rules, Hands--Ballet--
References--Piquet or Cent--Political satire--Hamlet's
speech--"The age is grown so picked"--Euchre--"Heathen
Chinee"--American Hoyle--History of Euchre--Dialect--
Bower or youngster--Euchre derived from Juch--The German
words--An unreliable derivation--Poker--Jack-pot--Widow
and Kitty--Poker, Patience--Rules of game--According to
Hoyle--His birth and history--The story of Whist--Hoyle's
rules--Cavendish.

CHAPTER XIII--ENGRAVED CARDS 277-291

Print lovers--Invention of Xylographic arts--Earliest
wood cuts--Double purposes--Rare prints--Gregineur--Dr.
Stuckley's pack--Cologne engraved cards--Spanish pips--
German emblems--Martin Schoengaur--Le Maître--His
designs--E. S.--Augsburg--Its guild of cardmakers--The
cards of Nuremburg--Jost Ammon--His productions--Italian
and Netherland cards.

CHAPTER XIV--PLAYING CARDS FOR EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER PURPOSES 292-307

Invectives from State and Church--Destruction in
Nuremburg--Its Museum--"The Devil's Picture Books"--
Bishop Latimer--The Text--German instructive cards--Those
of China and Japan--The Friend's cards--Dr. Muruer's
cards--Louis XIV's cards--History of France--Heraldic
cards--Political and other packs--Cards with Mercury's
emblems--Harlequin cards--Musical packs--Japanese cards--
Cards as Christian and Jewish Prayer Books--Grammatical
cards--Plato's advice--A tract--Astronomical and religious
packs--Historical cards of the United States--Proverbs.

CHAPTER XV--EUROPEAN PLAYING CARDS 308-321

Cards--Charles V--Proclamation in Paris--Red Book of Ulm--
Palamedes and the siege of Troy--Egyptian gambling rods--
Cards as postals--Evolution--M. Angelo--Prince of Pisa--
Maffei Ringhierri Feliceano and Menesturier--Singer--
Chatto, 1392--St. Cyprian--Nearsighted writers--The
points of view--Concealed practices--The game of gold--
Chinese legend--Connection with divination--Count de
Gebelin--"The great dreamer"--Connection with magic--
First French cards--Rouge et noir--Rapid spread through
Europe--The sailors with Columbus--Introduction of cards
into America--Italian verses--Pictures--Literature.

CHAPTER XVI--ASIATIC PLAYING CARDS 322-340

Discoveries of Messrs. Cushing and Culin--Arrows of
Divination--The Magi before Pharaoh--The Rod of Moses at
Horeb--The connection between arrows and cards--Korean
cards--Alaskan rods--The game--Hida Island Indian rods--
The next step--Htou-Tjyen or "Fighting arrows"--Chinese
lotteries and cards--Derivation of pips--Actor's cards--
Jokers called Blessings--Educational cards--Japanese
cards--Historical, gambling and divining arrows--Poetic
cards--Cashmere cards--Persian cards--Their emblems.

CHAPTER XVII--CHESS AND OTHER GAMES 341-364

Chess a battlefield--The Emperor Akbar and his queen--
Lady Dufferin's description of the Palace of Glass--
Living Chess--Two Jokers--Derivation of Chess--Troy--
Crete--Nig--Egyptian caricature--Korean Chess--Set in
British Museum--Chess from Brahmins--Ravan, king of
Ceylon--Seffa's trick--Persian words--Jussef's
escape--Mora--Draughts--The Pharaoh--Greek and Roman
names--French games--Checkers--Korean "horses"--Dice--
German dice cards--Korean dice--Dominoes--Jackstones--
Materials--Ball--Pieces--Kong-Keui--Chinese and Korean
games--The sets--Muggins--Milking the cow--Grab--Peas in
the pot--Horses in and out of the stable--Sweeping the
floor--Spreading the table--Laying eggs--Setting eggs--
Hatching eggs--Jackstraws--A set described--Their values.

CHAPTER XVIII--FORTUNE-TELLING THROUGH THE CARDS 365-383

Methods--Etteila--Le Normand--Fortune-telling cards--
Rules--Meanings of cards with French pips--A fortune
told--The hairdresser of Paris--The First Napoleon--Les
hautes sciences--Deductions of the fortune-teller--
Papus--Definition of suits--Key to the pip cards of the
Tarots--Staves, Cups, Swords and Money--Rules for
reading the cards.