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Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of Games, Including Illustrative Hands & Suggestions for Good Play
Richard Frederick Foster (1853-1945) was a disseminator of the rules of many card games, including auction bridge and other bridge variations, the Salvadoran conquian & whist. Editions of some of his many texts can be found at the Taxe Collection at UNLV.
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First published January 1, 1909
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Robert Frederick Foster
151 books7 followersRobert Frederick Foster of New York City, known as R. F. Foster, was a memory training promoter and the prolific writer of more than 50 nonfiction books. He wrote primarily on the rules of play and methods for successful play of card, dice, and board games. Alan Truscott wrote 20 years after his death that Foster "had been one of the great figures in whist and bridge" for 60 years.
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May 19, 2009
Until high school when I had to work and/or go to summer school, I spent every summer from Memorial to Labor Day up at my paternal grandmother's lakeside cottage in Lake Charter Township, Michigan with grandmother Lajla and my mother. There was one other kid in the woods, Diane, the daughter of one of Dad's old friends, but that relationship withered and died once she got girlish around sixth grade. Dad would come up on weekends and sometimes there were guests, but basically I was on my own in a cottage with two older women, no plumbing, no television, no phonograph and no telephone. This led, naturally, to a lot of reading.
The one thing we three generations did do together some evenings was to play cards. I learned bridge very, very early, serving as a fourth when Lajla's husband, Christian, or brother, Leif, were around. Otherwise we would play three-handed bridge, hearts or rummy.
Hoyle's was a basic reference to which we would refer when we'd grow weary of the same old games. That's how a cribbage board got introduced to the household. That's where I'd be referred after I'd learned all the solitaire games Lajla had to teach me. Indeed, I must have tried them all at one time or another.
When one reads the histories of the elites of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, card games figure prominently. Now, except for poker perhaps, gambling casinos and Microsoft's few solitaire games, one rarely sees cards played. The nice thing about them, of course, was that they were social and usually, because no gambling was involved, convivial--a common denominator between all kinds of people.
The one thing we three generations did do together some evenings was to play cards. I learned bridge very, very early, serving as a fourth when Lajla's husband, Christian, or brother, Leif, were around. Otherwise we would play three-handed bridge, hearts or rummy.
Hoyle's was a basic reference to which we would refer when we'd grow weary of the same old games. That's how a cribbage board got introduced to the household. That's where I'd be referred after I'd learned all the solitaire games Lajla had to teach me. Indeed, I must have tried them all at one time or another.
When one reads the histories of the elites of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, card games figure prominently. Now, except for poker perhaps, gambling casinos and Microsoft's few solitaire games, one rarely sees cards played. The nice thing about them, of course, was that they were social and usually, because no gambling was involved, convivial--a common denominator between all kinds of people.
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