... Mrs. Ward in her pro- foundest manner and most serious mood, and, though her situations frequently resemble the majority of chess problems by seldom or never occurring in real play, it must be owned that they are skilfully constructed with a view to an ...

... steam engines as a hobby, whilst Sir Walter Parratt's favourite recreation was to dictate moves for two simultaneous games of chess whilst playing Bach fugues. It used to be said that English Concerning Amateur people cared only for one form Orchestras of ...

... fills it is the unfortunate governess, Miss Roberts. Miss Roberts has not only to look after a couple of girl pupils, to play chess, and take walks with the heroine's husband, but has also to fetch and carry and do maid-of-all-work sundries for the mis- -J; ...

... man who arranges a revolution in two minutes, and in a couple more has carried it out in detail worthy of a Kitchener or a chess champion. Miss Dora Barton makes a capital maid and confidant of Barbara, and Miss Lena Halliday plays very effectively an ...

... the cosmos is so very small. The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. Poets do not go mad but chess-players do. Mathemati cians go mad. and cashiers, but creative artists very seldom. The poet only asks to get his head into ...

... of clockwork, which may or may not be essential to the working of the illusion. Its most dazzling feat is worked out on a chess board. The board, with its sixty-four squares all numbered, is exhibited, and it is required to make the Knight's move from ...

... it resembles those chess problems which can scarcely be imagined as occurring, even when occurrence is possible, in actual play. The occurrence of Miss Mole's problem in real life is certainly unlikely in the extreme. But, as in chess, so in life, it is ...

... it resembles those chess problems which can scarcely be imagined as occurring, even when occurrence is possible, in actual play. The occurrence of Miss Mole's problem in real life is certainly unlikely in the extreme. But, as in chess, so in life, it is ...

... lar lure. Developed on a realistic plan, and provided with elaborate rules, it becomes as engrossing a mental exercise as chess, and far more strenuous and thrilling-- a game compared with which the ordinary playing at soldiers is nothing but (to use ...

... lay of English blood which means stability, sitting in a little house near Ypres to solve a situation which was like twenty chess problems at once. And solving it brilliantly, by violating every rule of warfare There is also a new and memorable glimpse ...

... A. Thomas is a well-known international lawn-tennis player as well as a Badminton champion, a county hockey player, and a chess champion.- ...

... no loose ends, no dramatic untidi nesses, so that when we reach the strong scene he is in the position of the master at the chess-board who can call checkmate. The big scene here is in the bed-room. Two acts of skilful preparation have put therein at dead ...