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chapter 1a brief history of the pack of cardsIt is a popular belief that cards were invented in order to amuse King Charles VI of France, at a time when that monarch was mentally unstable. This legend, however, like so many stories of the past, has no foundation in fact, as cards were known long...

PREFACE Many books devoted to Grammar are published every year. Most of them are concerned more with the points of grammar which seldom arise than with matters of every day interest. They thrash out things which concern very few of us, and consequently frighten the average individual who is anxious...

PREFACE.The following Tables of Houses, and those published íor Great Britain, will enable the student to erect a map of the Heavens for Northern Latitudes from the Equator to 60° North.These Tablea will alsó serve for South Latitudes by using the method described on the last page as to " How to...

Preface to the First EditionThe ever increasing use of medicinal plants that has occurred in recent times has stimulated the publication of a number of books about these plants. Many of them lack a critical approach, especially concerning the actions and uses of the plants. They repeat, without any...