Excerpt from How to Play Whist: With the Laws and Etiquette of Whist, Whist-Whittlings, and Forty Fully-Annotated Games
The following chapters on the Theory and Practice of Whist originally appeared in Knowledge, and there had the advantage of the criticisms and suggestions of some of the finest exponents of the game. These criticisms have in many cases led to important modifications and improvements. The treatise has no claim to novelty as regards Whist principles; in fact, outside the modem Signalling system and the absolute rejection of the Singleton lead, there is very little difference between the Whist of to-day and the Whist of Hoyle and Matthews.
The method of presenting the Leads here adopted is much more easily followed than that usually employed. Learners are deterred by the multitudinous rules for leading from such and such hands, bat grasp at once the rules for leading such and such cards. The gain in simplicity is great.
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