... critic the trade of a theatrical glove maker and also in Dr. Anselmus himself, whose discoveries connected with the origin of chess have so un expected a solution. Equally charming indeed are the humorous parts of the story with those that for want of a better ...

... 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 ...

... compelled to use old-sight spectacles.- Chess: Theory and Practice, by the late Howard Staunton, edited by R. B. Wormald (Virtue and Co.). This volume is a most welcome addition to our not too extensive Chess literature. After various hypotheses as to ...

... 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 ...

... lesson-book, with instructions how to dissect a plant, and refer it to its natural order, how to form a herbarium, &c.; and the Chess-Board of Life, by T. B. Green, an extraordinary little collection, very neatly got up, of the most commonplace remarks, a ...

... Arabella Goddard, both of whom were so greatly admired by his intimate friend, the late Heinrich Ernst, with whom he used to play chess so often in unmusical but artistically well-meaning London. Waifs. Lovers of genuine English vocal part music will be pleased ...

... 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 ...

... is being improved or educated (we scarcely know which word to use), and that he will shortly be able to play draughts and chess as well as whist. He is also to be endowed with new flexible features to enable him to express various emotions. ...

... 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 ...

... that his book is so often forestalled by the magazine writer. This has not been the case in regard to Buckle. Fraser and the Chess Played s Magazine told us a good deal about him seventeen years ago since when a new generation of readers has grownup eager ...

... from Sir John Mandeville's account of the Land of Prester John, written in 1356, and Caxton's Game and the Play of the Chess, celebrated as the first book printed in England, he leads the student through the writings of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip ...

... -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 ...