An Illustrated Grammar of Skat, the German Game of Cards (Classic Reprint) by Ernst Eduard Lemcke
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Author: Ernst Eduard Lemcke
Page Count: 80 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781330033364
File size: 26 Mb
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Excerpt from An Illustrated Grammar of Skat, the German Game of Cards
The first edition of "Skat, the German game of Cards being sooner exhausted than the author had expected not on account of its merits as a book, but the subject dealt with, he is only too well aware it gives him pleasure with a corrected reprint of the Primer, pages 1 to 21, to indite new matter, pages 22 and after, for the advanced student of Skat; on the social bearings of the German game and such traits of character as manifest themselves in the peculiar Skatterminology in an English garb such as he could give it during the few leisure hours of a busy life. American players should master as much of the SKAT-jargon as seems absolutely necessary, when joining a party of Germans, to be considered SsAT-players in full standing. Not the least part of the social enjoyment the German game affords, consists in the peculiar way of putting things and a SsAT-book not doing justice, in a measure, to its humor, would fall short of realizing the authors ultimate aim touched upon at some length in the notice of the first edition, reprinted from the "N. Y. Nation: " to teach his English-speaking brethren not the game only, but something better worth knowing of things German than a game at cards merely, however interesting as such. That this most seductive portion of his task is not fuller, he regrets, but must content himself with what he can now give as an apology for what he intended. The encouraging reception of his first venture by the press, Anglo-American as well as German-American, leaves room for the hope, that the new one will be as indulgently treated and that his readers may be pleased to bear in mind, that he handles a very German subject in a language acquired late in life, while there can be no more difficult task than to preserve the flavor of humor in the translating process and to create, singlehanded, a new terminology.
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