... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 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. ...

... 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 ...

... excellent numbers of the Antiquary's Library (Elliot Stock) deserve more than a collective notice. Caxton'sGamc and Playc of the Chesse is a verbatim reprint of the first edition of 1474, with preface by Mr. W. E. A. Axon which is an excellent introduction to ...

... professor. A lady of the ballet at the Berlin opera has, it is stated, beaten nearly all the best players in Germany at the Chess Tourna ment at Hamburg. The projectors hope that the new club of musi cians will be started next month. Sirs G. A. Macfarren ...

... of an hour or so, they are quietly put away by the author like the captured pieces restored to their box during a game of chess. It is far otherwise, it must be confessed, with the vigorous sketch of the elder Darvell, a part acted with consummate skill ...

... but this would depend on how the thing was done besides, it is time the nations looked on A frica as something more than a chess-board ...

... adopting the dreadful method of Mr. Henry James in simply describing a situation which is no more to fiction than a chess problem is to real chess-- the authoress writes so much better, and with so much more insight and sympathy than her unfortunately chosen ...