... CHESS. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. R. S.-- You can get fifty diagrams clearly printed on good paper, and in a pretty wrapper for sixpence, from Mr. G. C. Heywood, the well-known problem composer, High-road, Lee, S.E. ,T. f (E,on College).-- The problem as amended is correct. {solution of Problem No. 269 by J. M. and Julia Short is correct. Solution of Problem No. 269 (Mr. Kidson's). White. ...

... nUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. [communicated ARRAH, Mr. Boucicault, darlin,' what the divil do you mane by trying to humbug the English in your old ago with your gingerbread sintiments about the Ould Counthry? Sure they see through ye as clean as if you was Parnell or a pane of glass. At your time av life you ought to know bether. Sure, you've made pliaty av money wid the dramas you've already written ...

... CHESS. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. mini --We are much obliged for your letter and problem. t'p (Tiiwewich). Your prer.ty game is very welcome. J. are glad to hear from you once more, and thank you for three No. 302, by D. L. A. HarroMgate) is correct. S°lution of Problem No. 303 (Mr. II. Jackson's) by E ,L. and Julia fihort is B^U-We have posted a letter to you. Solution op Pkohi.km No. 302. ...

... TTJRFIANA. VASTLY little light was let in upon the probable results of the great races of the year by doings at Newmarket last week, and though the Two Thousand Guineas will receive more minute attention elsewhere in this article, we are entitled to take a general view of the race, as regards the leading features which distinguish it. These at present seem mainly to reflect a profound ...

... . A FRIEND of mine, while staying at Malta some time ago, was-- as were the rest of the diners at the table d'hóte --much annoyed by the air of superior knowledge assumed by a man who was staying in the hotel, acting as bear leader to a couple of lads. This man knew all about everybody and everything, arrogantly laid down the law on every subject that came up, and contradicted people in the ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE PICKPOCKET. WITH the tricks and the man ners of the feloniously-inclined I can claim an acquaintanceship which I flatter myself is beyond the average. One of the boxes from which I have witnessed many curious and interesting per formances on the stage of life is located in the Bow-street Police Court. Erom it I have perforce studied for hours the peculiar ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MODERN WIVES AT THE ROYALTY. THERE is, amongst what may be styled stock stories, a pretty well known one relating to Murphy, the almanac maker. It sets out that once, when sojourning in the country, he set out one fine morning on an excursion. After proceeding a short distance he came across a farm labourer, with whom he entered into conversation. This man, on learning ...

... HORS D'CEUVRES. JVar ill Words of One Syllable The Simple Russian The So-called Vomers Hints on Committing Suicide Peaceful War On Business Principles THE Chinese are said to be sorry they invented gunpowder. Yet war with them is simple and straightforward. No wounded, no truces, no hospital scandals (there being no necessity for hospitals), no unseemly wrangling about explosive bullets, white ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE QUEEN'S DOUBLE. IT is well that Madame de la Motte was so accomplished a liar that the Diamond Necklace Affair has always left room for doubt. The scandal in which poor Marie Antoinette was involved, either innocently or guiltily-- at a time when the Crown could ill afford it--has, in con sequence of its uncertainties, served both novelist and dramatist to very ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE END OF A STORY. AND Mr. Charles Wyndham again marries Miss Mary Moore! This is all that was said by the man behind us; but it was enough to confirm one's own idea that Mr. Wynd ham's recent productions have been too similar. It would not be so bad were he the only actor-manager. In a single theatre among many the public might care to find the gentleman who keeps the ...

... OUR NEW PRIZE PUZZLE COMPETITION. A Chance for Any Reader to Win. a Motor Car. The conditions of this competition, which began on October 15, are perfectly simple, and it is hoped that every competitor will carefully read them through and refrain from worrying the Editor with unnecessary questions. This competition will run for twenty weeks in all. Each week while the competition lasts a ...

... . In using such a phrase as music without technique I mean to imply precisely what the inventors of an instrument like the pianola meant to imply; that is to say, they desired to do away with, to brush aside altogether, the drudgery of manual exercise. They desired to save the time of the player and to set him down from the beginning of things at the point where he would probably stand at ...