Excerpt from Whist Openings: A Systematic Treatment of the Short-Suit Game
For his frequent use of the first personal pronoun in these pages the author craves the indulgence of his readers. Although he believes the sort of whist-play here advocated to be of a thoroughly scientific character, he has not ventured to assume that it rests upon an established scientific basis, because it is too new for that. Hence he could not bring himself to write about it in an uncompromising, taken-for-granted manner, in the style of books on arithmetic. He feels that he is addressing an audience upon a novel topic, or at least an entirely novel treatment of an old topic. Some of his auditors will at the outset surely listen with distrust. The authors desire, therefore, is to suggest and persuade,, rather than to lay down the law in a dogmatic way.
Will the reader, then, forgive this perfectly transparent attempt to take him into the authors confidence?
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