... wears a hat which would make a very good sign for a public-house called The Chequers, for you could certainly play a game of chess upon the crown of it. 'Tis thus he wins his Genevieve his bright, his beauteous bride who is none other than a Miss Ethel Grainger ...

... became Deevud; the angel became the ainjull; the daughter of Zion became its daughtair: the righteous be came. the righ-chess Saviour and other mispronunciations which we must decline to record, turned the j ubilant words of the prophet into a ridiculous ...

... is scarcely as satisfactory as some we have seen from the same hand. We find, in addition to the usual quantity of current chess-matter, of problems, &c., bio graphical notes of the late Mr. Cochrane and the Earl of Ravens- worth, and all the news of ...

... too senti mental dog stories, the continuations of its very interesting serial novels, an exhaustive article on Mechanical Chess riaycrs, and other readablo matter of an attractive character. The Victoria Magazine is up to its ordinaiy standard, a paper ...

... -the past week the patrons of the Standard have been revelling in an exciting melodrama called Ambition's Slave or, a Game at Chess, from the pen of Mr. J. Fox. This piece, which is, we believe, a version of Spadra the Satirist, a drama made popular by the ...

... REVIEWS. Chess Life-Pictures. By G. A. MacDonneli,. B.A. Kelly Co., 61, Great Queen-street, London. Price us. MR. MACDONNELL'S Chess Life-Pictures is a very entertain ing book, the writing of which few men were better qualified than the author to undertake ...

... pair are scanned. The part of Cayley is one of those which to my mind always recall the status of the king in the game of chess. Everything may be said to depend upon him, and one cannot get along with out him but his individual doings pale before the ...

... impossible to care very much about any of the dramatis pcrsonce, the interest in whom is akin to that taken in the pieces on a chess-board. The pair of lovers, though pleasant and natural young people, are rather insignificant, and it soon becomes evident ...

... more anxiety over the solution of the problem where to sro to than an embrvo mathematician over a theorem of Euclid or a chess player over a close finish, finally rushes off at hazard and suffers accordingly, I deeply sympathise. My pity for the hapless ...

... powder and patches and the picturesque comedy costumes which Mr. Buchanan's personages wear. But on the stage, as away from it, chess is not everything. Nor will the name of Field ing without Fielding's spirit give the charm of classical comedy to the transpontine ...

... remarkable not only for the gorgeous and imaginative dresses of such comparatively easy sub jects as the playing cards and chess men, with then Kings and Queens, their Courts and Commons, as it wore ready made for the designer but it is also noteworthy ...

... CHESS C1IAT. MR. BLACKBURNE distinguished himself at the Manchester Con gress not merely by winning the second prize, but by producing some very brilliant games. In this respect-- the most important as regards chess-- he vindicated his superiority to ...