Plan of Roulette Table, as used at Monte Carlo 348 Betting. By Rowlandson 382 IN BLACK AND WHITE The Spendthrift. From an Eighteenth-Century Print 26 A Raid on a London Gaming-House 44 Sharpers and Bucks in a Billiard Room 68 Light Come, Light Go 80 A Row in a Fashionable Hell 86 Count d'Orsay calling a Main at Crockford's 98 The Arms of White's _p._ 107 The Gambling-Room at Brooks's. From a Water-colour Drawing in the possession of the Club 116 The Cock-Fight at Lucknow, with Key. Engraved by R. Earlom, after Zoffany 194 Roulette in the Eighteenth Century 284 Facsimile Title-Page of "Guide du Spéculateur au Trente-Quarante et à la Roulette" 298 Gambling at Homburg. Drawn by the late G.A. Sala 308 E.O. on a Country Race-course. By Rowlandson 398 Mrs. Thornton 416 I The gambling spirit inborn in mankind--Its various forms in reality identical--Resemblance of gamblers to the alchemists of old--Capriciousness of fortune--Importance of small advantages at play--An extraordinary run at hazard--Napoleon and Wellington little addicted to cards--Blücher's love of gaming--He wins his son's money--Avaricious gamesters--Anecdotes of the miser Elwes--Long sittings at the card-table--Modern instance in London--Two nights and a day at whist at the Roxburgh Club--Casanova's forty-two hour duel at piquet--Anecdotes of Fox, the Duke of Devonshire, Sir John Lade, Beau Nash, and others--Country houses lost at play--"Up now deuce and then a trey"--The Canterbury barber.