This text contains a detailed guide to learning and improving one's skill at Whist, including the laws of whist, information on tactics, and other relevant information. Especially suited to beginners, this text also endeavours to improve the skill of the most advanced players, making it a worthy addition to collections of gaming literature and not to be missed by the discerning Whist enthusiast. The chapters of this book include: Preliminary Advice, Playing to the Score, Numerical Strength in Trumps, The Lead, The Indicating Card of the Sequence, Ace and Four Small Ones, Second Hand, Kind and Small One, Third Hand, Lead from Weakness, Return Lead, Ruffing, Discarding, Sequences, Call for Trumps, and much more. We are proud to republish this antique text here complete with a new introduction on card games.