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This book contains a catalogue of one hundred variants of the game 'solitaire'. Complete with descriptions of their laws and helpful illustrations explaining how they are played, this text constitutes a definitive guide on solitaire games and is not to be missed by the solitaire and card gaming enthusiast. The games covered in this book include: Klondike, Napoleon At St. Helena, Canfield, Auld Lang Syne, Fly, Congress, Miss Milligan, Octagon, Lazy Men, Baker's Dozen, Betrotha!, St. Helena, Nivernaise, Reinforcements, Windmill, Zodiac, Idle Year, Salic Law, and many others. This text has been elected for modern republication due to the timeless nature of the information contained within it, and we are proud to republish it here complete with a new introduction on card games.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This rare book constitutes the definitive guide to the artists of the Dutch and German schools of etching. It was originally published in 1880 and written by Philip Gilbert Hamerton. A comprehensive and insightful treatise on the subject, this book is a veritable must-have for students of art, and it would make for a great addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: ¿Etching Compared with Other Arts¿, ¿Difficulties and Facilities of Etching¿, ¿The Popular Estimate of Etching¿, ¿The Influence of Connoisseurship¿, ¿Criticism and Practical Work¿, ¿Favourable and Unfavourable Artistic Conditions¿, ¿Comprehensiveness¿, and ¿Abstraction¿. This text also covers many of the most influential etchers, including: Goya, Zeeman, Jongkind, Van S¿gravesande, Canaletti, Ruysdael, and many others. Philip Gilbert Hamerton was an English author, artist and art critic. Elected for modern republication due to its immense education and historic value, this vintage book is being republished now complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Individual; The Pleasure Principle in Masochism; The Causes of Wholesale or Mass Torture; The Effects of Torture; Torture Among Savage and Primitive Races; Torture in Ancient Greece and Rome; The Progress of Torture; The Holy Inquisition; Torture in Great Britain and Ireland; The Persecution of the Witches; Torture in China, Japan and India; The Torture of Slaves in the West Indies, Mauritius and the United States of America; The War upon Torture; Some Notorious Torturers; Impaling Methods; Burning at the Stake, Branding, Boiling to Death, the Fire-pan and the Brazen Bull; Squassation, the Rack, the Wheel, the Boot and the Scavenger¿s Daughter; Whipping and Beating; Mutilation, Drawing and Quartering, Decapitation, etc.; Burying Alive, Hanging Alive in Chains, Starvation, the ¿Virgin Mary,¿ etc.; Torture by Ordeal; Miscellaneous Forms of Torture; Methods of Self-inflicted Torture; Modern Methods of Torture; Forms of Torture of Animals; The Futility of Torture in the Fight Against Criminality; The Evils of Torture as a Form of Punishment; The Psychopathological Element in Torture, and its Treatment; The Abolition of Torture. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.