Should any of our readers be curious as to the history of this charming game, we can with all confidence refer him to Cavendish on liquet. Until that writcr made this game his study, and with the aid of 2 joint committee from the Portland and Turf clubs drew up a Code of Laws since adopted by all our leading clubs, the only recognised authority was Hoyle. The great failing in Hoyles treatise was, that he addressed his renders as if they had already made considerable progress in the knowledge of the game. We hope no such charge can be made against us, as the following pages have been written with the object of enabling our readers, however ignorant of the game, to attain at least some proficiency in it. Piquet naturally falls under two heads Piquet au Cent and Rubicon Piquet. The forner is described by Hoyle, and was played alnost universally up to the year 1873 but since then it has been to a very great extent superseded by the modern game. The two games in many ways go hand in hand,...