... C'HESS SPARKS. By J. II. Ellis. (Longmans and Co.) Hebe chess players of all kinds will find good, palatable, invigorating, and digestible food. A Spark, says the author, must be brief as well as bright, and so these games are limited to 20 moves ...

... CHESS C1IAT. MR. BLACKBURNE distinguished himself at the Manchester Con gress not merely by winning the second prize, but by producing some very brilliant games. In this respect-- the most important as regards chess-- he vindicated his superiority to ...

... REVIEWS. Chess Life-Pictures. By G. A. MacDonneli,. B.A. Kelly Co., 61, Great Queen-street, London. Price us. MR. MACDONNELL'S Chess Life-Pictures is a very entertain ing book, the writing of which few men were better qualified than the author to undertake ...

... -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 ...

... intrigue-- the development of the plot scarcely realises the ingenuity in complication promised by the title-- the stage game of chess is not a championship contest; but the rest is very bright and agreeable with natural character, and with dialogue which is ...

... the figures amazes us by coming to life and blinking an eyelid, when we appreciate they are neither dust nor marble, but two chess players indulging in a battle royal. Then we get a shock. Enter Bernard Nedell minus that little moustache that gave him such ...

... 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 ...

... whist to blind hookey and from baccarat to bezique, including poker, eucre, nap, and solo, but also draughts, billiards, and chess, the latter being accompanied by some of the best openings and most approved gambits. Redpoud Rates fou Christmas Parcels.-- ...

... impossible to care very much about any of the dramatis pcrsonce, the interest in whom is akin to that taken in the pieces on a chess-board. The pair of lovers, though pleasant and natural young people, are rather insignificant, and it soon becomes evident ...

... D'Artagnan. Loathsome Cardinal darling Buckingham Lilian Davies as Anne, Queen of France. The Cardinal Arthur Wontner plays chess with D'Artagnan s servant Planchet Jerry Verno) the stake being freedom or the Bastille, Planchet thinks he prefers cards. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...