in which concerts, theatrical
performances and public balls are given, and which usually contains a
_cafe-restaurant_ and gaming saloons. "Casino" as an architectural term
is still employed in France, and the subject is given in competitive
programmes in the French schools of design. In the 18th century in
England many Italian examples were built in the parks of country
mansions, and Sir William Chambers in his treatise on civil architecture
publishes plates of the casinos he had built at Marino, near Dublin,
Wilton near Salisbury, and Birdshall, Yorkshire.

_Casino_ or _Cassino_ is also the name given to a game of cards of
obscure origin, played with a full whist-pack. The object is to take as
many cards as possible, particularly such as have special value. It may
be played by two, three or four persons, partners sitting opposite one
another. The player at the dealer's right is called the pony (_pone_),
the one at his left the eldest hand. The dealer (selected by the cut of
the lowest card) deals four cards to each player by twos and also, just
before dealing to himself, four to the table, face upwards. The eldest
hand begins the game by playing a card in one of three ways. Either he
may take one of the exposed cards on the table by matching it with one
from his own hand; or he may put one of his cards upon one of the table
hand and call the sum of the pips (called _building_); or thirdly,
failing to do either of these things, he must _trail_, i.e. lay a card
face upwards on the table beside the exposed cards, and the player at
his left then plays in his turn. When each player has played out all
four of his cards the dealer deals four more all round, and the game
proceeds until the pack is exhausted. The game either (1) ends at this
juncture, the player having secured the most points winning; or (2) the
side or player first securing 21 points wins; or (3) the points secured
in a given number of deals may determine the winner. The points and
their respective values are as follows:--_Big_ (or Great) _Casino_ (ten
of diamonds), 2; _Little Casino_ (deuce of spades), 1; _Cards_ (greatest
number), 3; _Spades_ (greatest number), 1; _Aces_, 1 each or 4 together;
_Sweeps_ 1 each. Thus, without _sweeps_, the maximum points in one deal
are 11. A sweep is a play that clears the table of all exposed cards.
The game then proceeds by the next player placing a card on the table
face upwards.

"Building," referred to above, is done