Side and Screw
being Notes on the Theory and Practice of the Game of Billiards
This book is intended for moderately advanced amateurs. A knowledge of the laws of the game and of the more elementary strokes is presumed. It is hoped that players who possess that knowledge may find the practical part of the book useful and the theoretical part interestingly intelligible.
It is commonly said that announce of practice is worth a pound of theory, or words to that effect. If then the ounce of theory herein contained is of any assignable positive value at all, the value of the pound of practice which follows would seem almost to transcend calculation.