The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2)
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THE GAMING TABLE:
ITS VOTARIES AND VICTIMS,
In all Times and Countries, especially in England and in France.
IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. II.
Contents
THE GAMING TABLE.
THE GAMING TABLE.
CHAPTER I. CHEVALIERS D'INDUSTRIE, OR POLITE SHARPERS.
CHAPTER II. PROFESSIONAL GAMESTERS AND THEIR FRAUDS.
CHAPTER III. ANECDOTES OF THE PASSIONS AND VICISSITUDES OF GAMESTERS.
CHAPTER IV. ATROCITIES, DUELS, SUICIDES, AND EXECUTION OF GAMBLERS.
CHAPTER V. ODDITIES AND WITTICISMS OF GAMBLERS.
OSTENTATIOUS GAMESTERS.
CHAPTER VI. THE GAMING CLUBS.
CHAPTER VII. DOINGS IN GAMING HOUSES.
CHAPTER VIII. THE DOCTRINE OF PROBABILITIES APPLIED TO GAMBLING.
CHAPTER IX. THE HISTORY OF DICE AND CARDS.
CHAPTER X. PIQUET, BASSET, FARO, HAZARD, PASSE-DIX, PUT, CROSS AND PILE,
CHAPTER XI. COCK-FIGHTING.
CHAPTER XII. THE TURF, HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, MORAL.
CHAPTER XIII. FORTUNE-TELLING BY CARDS
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