Excerpt from The Annals of Our Time: A Diurnal of Events, Social and Political, Home and Foreign, From the Accession of Queen Victoria, June 20, 1837Billiard match in St. James's Hall be tween Cook, jun., and Roberts, sen., the latter receiving a start of 200 in Cook won with an unfinished break of 268, including no less than 78 spot strokes, which his opponent had been the chief means of introducing and popularizing.The Versailles army capture the Chateau de Brem after a sharp engagement.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.