The book covers all sorts of gaming and gambling, including card games, board games, lotteries, tricks, frauds and many more schemes that developed throughout the ages.

He is a frequent contributor to Books in Canada and the Montreal Review of Books.

At the crossroads of the credos "know thyself" and "heal thyself," Steinmetz adopts a "hurt thyself" attitude that is sardonic and compassionate.

Andrew Steinmetz (1816-1877) was the author of: The Novitiate (1846), History of the Jesuits (1848), Tobacco: Its History... (1857), Japan and Her People (1859), Military Gymnastics of the French (1861), A Manual of Weathercasts (1866), The ...