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Practical Billiards. By William Dufton. (Routledge.)—A complete guide to the

billiard-table, and one that will enable young players to forsake the dashing style of flukes with which so many of them begin, for a more certain and artistic method. Mr. Dufton explains all the strokes by which the score gradually mounts up, and accompanies his explanations by a useful set of diagrams. His book is, as he calls it, practical.