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... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... How weary state, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of dramatic criticism! That I should labour on week after week with unflagging energy and unexampled intel- ligence to correct the faults of the British stage is not extraordinary, for I am devoted to the theatrical profession. But that my labours should have so little result is most strange and unnatural. I console myself, ...

... . The champion sculler of England, says the Daily News, was, till quite lately, the champion of Europe, and indeed of the known world. Aspirants from America might challenge a University Four, but no foreign professional was so hardy as to touch the champion sculler's shield. Now the championshship is shorn at tame than the finish, for Higgins' ship was damaged in the foul and he rowed home in ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... CHESS. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A. C. P.-- Notes and corrections received with thanks. J. W. Myer (Brighton). Your solution of Problem 231 is correct. T. Robertson-Airman. Thanks for letter; the problem is very neat, and will shortly appear. J. W. i Upper Norwood). You should join the Croydon Club, which holds its meetings every Monday and Thursday, 7 p.m. and is frequently visited by some ...

... . MESSRS. J. AND R. DOUGLASS, of the Standard Theatre, in announcing themselves as the actual and responsible managers of that place of entertainment at the head of their programme, give their address as 204½, High-street, Shoreditch, further they state that it is the largest and most magnificent theatre in the world. This announcement, being in italics, is imposing, not to say startling. I ...

... . BY OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER. PART n. THE first difficulty that has to be vanquished is the outfit. Immemorial tradition assures us, and immemorial custom demands, that every person going out to India takes with him an elaborate outfit, sufficient in its magnitude to clothe all hands on board a troop-ship. The task of collecting this outfit is a stupendous one. The most gauzy vests, the ...

... . 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 ...