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The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims
Volume 1
Preface
The Universal Passion of Gaming; Or, Gaming All the World Over
Gambling Among the Ancient Hindoos.—A Hindoo Legend and Its Modern
Gambling Among the Ancient Egyptians, Persians, and Greeks
Gaming Among the Ancient Roman Emperors
Gambling in France in All Times
The Rise and Progress of Modern Gaming in England
Gambling in Brighton in 1817
Gambling at the German Bathing-Places
Gambling in the United States
Lady Gamestresses
Gambling Poets, Savants, Philosophers, Wits, and Statesmen
Remarkable Gamesters. ——Monsieur Chevalier
The Lotteries and Their Bewilderments
The Laws Against Gaming in Various Countries
Volume 2
Chevaliers D'industrie, or Polite Sharpers
Professional Gamesters and Their Frauds
Anecdotes of the Passions and Vicissitudes of Gamesters
Atrocities, Duels, Suicides, and Execution of Gamblers
Oddities and Witticisms of Gamblers
The Gaming Clubs
Doings in Gaming Houses
The Doctrine of Probabilities Applied to Gambling
The History of Dice and Cards
Piquet, Basset, Faro, Hazard, Passe-Dix, Put, Cross and Pile
Cock-Fighting
The Turf, Historical, Social, Moral
Fortune-Telling by Cards (For Ladies)
Amusing Card Tricks.(86)