. Whist scores and card-table talk, with a bibliography of whist; . eel of Fortune. 21. The World. II. Force. 22. A Fool. What was the origin of the tarots is a most interest-ing question, and upon it will depend the decision asto the ultimate origin of European cards. Certainwriters (M. Court de Gebelin, Eliphas J^evi, andothers) have studied the tarots as a branch of thau-raaturgic knowledge, and assert that these emblematicfigures had a very remote origin, — * an origin stretch-ing as far back, indeed, as the ancient Egyptians, fromwhom they have descended to us as a book or series ofsubjec
. Whist scores and card-table talk, with a bibliography of whist; . eel of Fortune. 21. The World. II. Force. 22. A Fool. What was the origin of the tarots is a most interest-ing question, and upon it will depend the decision asto the ultimate origin of European cards. Certainwriters (M. Court de Gebelin, Eliphas J^evi, andothers) have studied the tarots as a branch of thau-raaturgic knowledge, and assert that these emblematicfigures had a very remote origin, — * an origin stretch-ing as far back, indeed, as the ancient Egyptians, fromwhom they have descended to us as a book or series ofsubjects of deep symbolic meaning. Some of thesesubjects have in the course of time, however, becomesomewhat changed or metamorphosed, yet leavingtraces in sufficiency of the original symbols by which 48 WHIST SCORES AND ^u ^ Rubbers Games Points 1 to CARD-TABLE TALK, 49 those learned in archaeology and illuminism may es-tabhsh their true nature. (Willshire, p. 138.) Themost ancient cards that have come down to us aretarots; they are four in number, and were probably. |g:^Li:MPEREVR^ E3 TAROT, THE EMPEROR.(British Museum, Catl., PL i.) made about 1425 in Venice. Tarots are some-times as large as seven by four inches, some being onthick cardboard, and others on very thin paper. Theirold name, fiazbis, is probably preserved in naypes, theSpanish name for cards. 4 5° WHIST SCORES AND ^ ^ Rubbers Games Points 11 • CARD-TABLE TALK. 51 To furnish entertainment for children and olderpersons, and especially to keep or wean them fromdice-playing, it would seem that a game was devisedby combining fifty-six numeral cards with these twenty-
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