Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2017-02-10 Public domain in the USA. 153 Hewby, John Petch 1835 1896 Pembridge The Decline and Fall of Whist: An Old Fashioned View of New Fangled Play E-text prepared by Emmy, MFR, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images digitized by the Google Books Library Project (http://books.google.com) and generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "The Decline and Fall of Whist: An Old Fashioned View of New Fangled Play" by Hewby is a critique of the card game Whist, presented in a polemical and somewhat humorous style, written during the late 19th century. The book takes a nostalgic look at traditional Whist play while lambasting the so-called modern rules and conventions that Hewby views as detrimental to the game. The likely topic of the book revolves around the history of Whist, its evolution, and the author’s vehement opposition to newfangled practices in Whist. In the text, Hewby delineates various "wooden arrangements," which refer to arbitrary rules and conventions that he believes have led to the decline of the game's foundational principles. He examines several contemporary practices, such as the emphasis on leading from the longest suit instead of the strongest, and the reliance on complex signals and rules that remove the need for strategic thinking. Throughout the book, Hewby evokes historical figures in Whist literature, contrasting their insights with modern interpretations that he considers misguided or overly complicated. The work serves not only as a defense of traditional Whist but also as a call to return to a more intuitive and skillful approach to the game. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 56.8 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Whist GV Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Sports/Hobbies/Motoring Category: Humour Category: Sports/Hobbies 111848 2025-06-21T13:36:56.521147 text/html 88025 2024-10-23T01:44:29 text/html 251733 2025-06-21T13:37:00.131138 application/epub+zip 249808 2025-06-21T13:36:57.258185 application/epub+zip 113810 2025-06-21T13:36:56.876166 application/epub+zip 295529 2025-06-21T13:37:02.491122 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 279239 2025-06-21T13:36:59.741145 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 143988 2022-09-24T16:35:22.799258 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 92756 2025-06-21T13:36:56.262178 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 72584 2024-10-23T01:44:29 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16113 2025-06-21T13:37:02.628124 application/rdf+xml 17985 2025-06-21T13:36:56.972165 image/jpeg 2661 2025-06-21T13:36:56.923152 image/jpeg 510263 2025-06-21T13:36:56.537202 application/octet-stream application/zip