Billiards, Its Theory and Practice
I am not a vain man, nor an obstinate man, though some of my friend persist in declaring that I am a proud man. Well, I really am proud to find my little book in a Fourth Edition, and, if I had a particle of vanity in my composition, that quality would be, to say the least of it, flattered. “ There is something in Crawley’s book, after all,” I overheard the Right Honourable Edward Elphinstone Macer observe to Lord Tomnoddy, in the washing-place attached to the billiard-room of the Megatherium. Well, certainly there must be something in it, for the public have fully endorsed my right honourable friend’s opinion; and so long as they continue so to think, so long shall I be happy in believing that my treatise on Billiards has not been without its use in assisting young players, and affording a hint or two to old hands. Au resistor I shall be getting egotistical.