d'anieres. 445 



73 pages. Under the title Cartes {jeu de) we have the problem 

 which we noticed in Art. 533, omitting however the part which 

 is false. 



Under the title Wliish ou Wisth we have 8 pages, beginning 

 thus : 



Jeu de cartes mi-parti de hasard et de science. II a ete invente par 

 les Anglais, et continue depuis long terns d'etre en vogue dans la 

 Grand-Bretagne. 



C'est de tons les jeux de cartes le plus judicieux dans ses principes, 

 le plus convenable a la societe, le plus difficile, le plus interessant, le 

 plus piquant, et celui qui est combine avec le plus d'art. 



The article quotes some of the results obtained by De Moivre 

 in his calculations of the chances of this game : it also refers to 

 Hoyle's work, which it says was translated into French in 1770. 



With respect to the Dictionnaire de Jeux familiers we need 

 only say that it comprises descriptions of the most trifling games 

 which serve for the amusement of children ; it begins with Taime 

 mon amant par A, and it includes Colin-Maillard. 



827. We next advert to a memoir by DAnieres, entitled 

 Reflexions sur les Jeux de hazard. 



This memoir is published in the volume of the Kouveaux 

 Memoires de V Acad.... Berlin for 1784; the date of publication is 

 1786 ; the memoir occupies pages 391 — 398 of the volume. 



The memoir is not mathematical ; it alludes to the fact that 

 games of hazard are prohibited by governments, and shews that 

 there are different kinds of such games, namely, those in which a 

 man may ruin his fortune, and those which cannot produce more 

 than a trifling loss in any case. 



There is a memoir by the same author, entitled Sur les Paris, 

 in the volume of the Kouveaux Memoires de V Acad.... Berlin for 

 1786 ; the date of publication is 1788 : the memoir occupies 

 pages 273^-278 of the volume. 



This memoir is intended as a supplement to the former by the 

 same author, and is also quite unconnected with the mathematical 

 Theory of Probability. 



828. We have now to notice a curious work, entitled On the 



