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A LITERARY LETTER

... Salmone. With a special design drawn by Sir W. B. Richmond, (Daiid Nutt J A Memorial of the Chess Tournament for Masters and Amateurs, arranged by the City of London Chess Club. 1900. Containing the Full Scores of the Games Played. 2s. Long mans, Green Co.) ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2207 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... By Fred W. Bell, F.b.S. 5s. net. William Hcinewann. The Quarterly Review. July, igco. 6s. John Murray.) The Principles of Chess in Theory and Practice. By James Mann. Third edition. (Horace Cox.) China: the Long Lived Empire. By E. R. Scidmore. 8s. 6d ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2310 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... Two vols (J. M. Dent Co.) The Health Resorts of Europe. By Thomas Linn, M.D. Eighth year. (Henry nimpton.) Principles of Chess in Theory and Practice By James Mason Third edition revised and enlarged 2s6d.net. (Horace Cox.) The Princess a Play in Two ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2014 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

THE EX-CROWN PRINCE SEEKS THE TRUTH.: Little Willie Speaks Out--Poincare's Pre-war Memories--The Decline of ..

... An Escaper's Log is a wonderful record of the individual in war, that very same war that, to the ex-Crown Prince, was like chess, a game of intrigue, with whole countries as pawns. Mr. Grin nell-Milne provides a close-up of a soldier who fought in that ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1926
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3334 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL And OTHER BOOKS

... definitely higher class of author in the States than in England, and it has become quite an intellectual affair, more like chess than amusement. Mystery of the Roman Hat is a pretty good example of this new type of story, though it contains at least one ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1929
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2185 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

REVIEWS: Shorter Notices of Recently Published Books

... methods of cheating at dice are mentioned which still are practised in the United States. Racing, cock-fighting, archery, and chess are each given a chapter in the earlier work the later work abounds in anecdotes and also discusses games in detail a thoroughly ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1929
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1212 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

PLAYS: Opera and Sir Thomas Beecham at Covent Garden: A Dull Revue; A Disappointing Ballerina: A Revealing Film

... Nedell, Miss Olive Blakeney, and Mr. Anthony Holies in Elmer Rice's comedy of wise-cracks, which centres upon two engrossed chess players and terminates with an assassination and a return to the game. Mr. Elmer Rice will be recalled as the author of the ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1868 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

The World of Books

... from which the book under review is not entirely free. A casual remark, made at breakfast, concerning the result of a game of chess was sufficient to reveal a mesalliance between the young and attractive Lady Terence Chilgrove and Andrew Leigh, a middle-aged ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1934
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1857 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

STAGE and SCREEN Ion Swinley Proves a Competent Macbeth--Pleasing Film Entertainment at the Empire--Another New ..

... same type of film as liengal Dancer, and has as its tting the wilds of Kurdistan STAGE AND SCREEN (Continued trom p. 4357 chess-plaving and bombast were outward and visible signs of the working of a mighty mind. They certainly convinced everyone else ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1935
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1887 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

... and an intellectual who was a refugee from Lithuania; Bardichinov, an old Russian banker who for years, over his games of chess, would promise a return match, a year from now, in my palace in Petro- grad Alvarez, a curiously gentle Spanish anarchist Papadakis ...

Published: Saturday 08 May 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2002 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review