PREFACE. THIS Work is a companion volume to CASSELLS BOOK OF SPORTS AXD PASTIMES. As the latter-with the exception of the special sections on Recreative Science, The Workshop, and Home Pets -is largely occupied with games and sports which are usually carried on out of-doors, it will be seen that the present book, which is almost exclusively devoted to indoor games of various kinds, forms a very fitting supplement to the other. It has been the constant aim of the different writers to convey their infolmation in plain, accuiate, direct fashion, so that readers may come to understand, on the first occasion of consulting it, that CASSELLS BOOK OF INDOOR USEJITS, CARD GAMES, AND FIRESIDE FUN is a Work that deserves their confidence, and may accordingly acquire the habit of referring to it, as a matter of course, when in doubt 0n any point connected with their favourite games, or when desirous of learning new amusements. Reference has now and again been unavoidably made to outdoor games, either by way of comparison or suggestion for further details. In such cases the reference always has been to the companion volume already mentioned, so that readers possessing the two books will have no difiiculty in following the instructions of the Author......