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Illustrated Games of Patience. By Lady Adelaide Cadogan. (Sampson Low

and Co.)—Florestan, ex-Prince of Monaco, found, it will be remembered, his principal subject, M. Blanc, proprietor of the gaming-table, amusing himself with "Patience," of which game, the Prince tells us, he knew fifty varieties. Lady Adelaide Cadogan does not pretend to such knowledge as this, bat she gives us what is in itself sufficiently surprising, twenty-four. The methods and roles of part of these are set forth on paper, and further illustrated by well- executed drawings. If there is any one who finds a resource from weari- ness or loneliness in "Patience," by all means let him furnish him- self with Lady Adelaide Cadogan's standard work on the subject.