Published at the Request of Members of the Union Club, NEW YORK 1 194.3. PREFACE. THE principles of Whist are here embodied under the form of maxims arranged in natural order, so as to render them self-explanatory, and in such terms as might be used when a point arises for criticism after the play of a hand, so that beginners will be less bewildered in learning from this than from more diffuse publications, while older players may learn something in a short space of time without a feeling of going to school again. Previous writers have maintained that the selection of the suit depends on the cards in the hand: that trumps should be led when strong in them, and that when otherwise the lead should be from the numerically strongest 23 X 116 |