BY WILLIAM ANDREW CHATTO. Hæc mihi charta nuces, hæc est mihi charta fritillus.— Martial. LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, OLD COMPTON STREET, SOHO SQUARE. MDCCCXLVIII. PRINTED BY C. AND J. ADLARD, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE....

Should a person who has never bestowed a thought on the subject ask, "What can there be that is interesting in the History of Cards?" it is answered, "There may be much." There is an interest, of a certain kind, even in the solution of a riddle, or the explication of a conundrum; and certain learned men, such as Père Daniel, and Court de Gebelin, having assumed that the game of Cards was originally instructive, and that the figures and marks of the suits are emblematic, speaking to the intellige