Excerpt from Monaco and Its Gaming Tables IT was with no intention of writing a book that I began what I may call this treatise on gambling. During a lengthened residence at Nice last winter, I had joined a committee which was formed there for the purpose of having public gambling at Monte Carlo suppressed. With the view of aiding this movement, I commenced to write what was intended to be a newspaper article on the subject. As the writing proceeded, the subject widened, and my treatise extended beyond the limits suitable for the columns of a newspaper, so that it became necessary to publish it in a more imposing form. Besides, my spirit had been stirred within me as the magnitude of the evil about which I was writing became more and more disclosed, and I was on that account the more willing to deliver my message by the still small voice of a little book, which might be read in the quiet of the family circle, rather than by a cry from the house-tops, through the public press. One disadvantage, however, resulting from this departure from the original intention, was the compression and over-condensation with which the subject had been treated, with the view of making it suitable for the hurried reading and summary dismissal which is the general fate of newspaper articles. I found many defects, also, after the work was completed, which, however they might have been viewed in the columns of a news paper, were almost unpardonable in anything in the form of a book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Monaco and Its Gaming Table The little book has, nevertheless, been received with considerable favour, much more than I expected; the first edition having been quickly followed by a second, and now a third is required. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.