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♦ KNO^A^:.EDGE ♦ 



[May 1, 1888. 



control of races of mantiiul, liave aggriivated by their 

 exportation of parodies of the mother institutions — house- 

 hold suffrage, representative assemblies, and so forth. They 

 have ignored the fact that the personal relations between 

 master and servant liave ceased to exist with the abolition 

 of slavery, and that the political elevation of the negro has 

 done, and can do, nothing to establish new relations. We 

 must confess that Mr. Froude, although paradoxical as ever, 

 makes out a strong case for the government of those islands 

 as Crown colonies. No tinkering with their political con- 

 stitution can arrest the decay of their staple industry — 

 .sugar ; capital and enterprise can only be tempted to remain 

 in Jamaica, Dominica, and other suffering islands, or be 

 attracted thither anew and be engaged in remunerative 

 channels, by the firm rule of white over black. Let the 

 superior race withdraw, and the negro populations will 

 relapse into barbarism, with its revolting superstitions, 

 cannibalism, devil-worship, &c., as they have in llayti. We 

 have said enough to indicate that, as a contribution to the 

 mode in which tlie mother-country is to discharge her duty 

 to these neglected, but lovely and fertile, islands of the 

 West Indies, Mr. Fronde's book demands serious perusal. 



Juvenal in Piccadillij. By Oxoniensis. (Vizctelly ct 

 Co.) — Satires seem almost anachronisms nowadays. Since 

 Alfred Austin published his " Season " we do not remember 

 one that has .appeared to lash the humours and follies of 

 the towzi until the present brochure, which, free from the 

 exaggerated tones of the great Roman, finds material for 

 its crisp and brightly-written verse in vices and affectations 

 which have changed their zone but not their nature. 



Messrs. Blackwood & Sons send us a new and almost 

 entirely rewritten edition of the late Professor David 

 Page's Introductorn Text-Booh of Geology, the merits of 

 which need " no bush " from us ; from Messrs. Smith & 

 Elder we have Volume XIV. of their noble Bidionai-i/ of 

 National Biotjrapln/, comprising Damon to D'Eyncourt, 

 and therefore including the famous name of Darwin, the 

 article on whom is fitly ii-om the pen of his son and biographer; 

 amongst current serials we have to acknowledge the West- 

 minster lieview, containing a delightfully fresh paper on 

 Heine; the Cenliiri/, the C'l/dopaalia of Education, Lowj- 

 maris, in which appears Mr. Be.'ant's important pai)er on 

 making provision for girls ; and Bahij, an Illustrated 

 ^[afjazine for Mothers, which, we ho|)e, will be received by 

 them as its prospectus says it has been received by the 

 press — "with open arms." 



The author of ,S'iuilig/it (reviewed on p. 140) complains 

 that we I'epresent him as explaining gravitation by the 

 action of light, whereas he only stated that light "developed" 

 gravitation. He further objects to a quotation from his 

 volume anent meteorites being earthy atoms separated from 

 the air by cold pressure and vegetation. What he meant 

 was that by "the death and decouipo.sition of Fauna and 

 Flora their dusts do rise, and may become constituents of 

 meteorites when separated from the air by cold pressure " (!). 

 We trust that our readers will appreciate the value of these 

 corrections, and judge how far they aftect the validity of our 

 original judgment on the book in connection wdth which we 

 have been asked to make them. 



(But WRWt Columiu 



By "Five of Clubs." 



WAKING THAT LITTLE TRUMP. 



THE other evening two Bumblepuppists, playing as partners 

 against two sound but not specially brilliant players, distin- 

 guished themselves in the following triumphant manner : — 



, fC. (trumj/s).- 

 \D.— Q, 10. 



'C. (f/js).—'.), 8, 7, i. 



D.- K, 8, 6, 2. 



S.- K. 5. 

 Ih.— K, 4, 3. 



THE HANDS. 

 -K, Ki),6. H.— A, C, o, 2. 



S.— A, Q, 9, 6. 



12 



-A, Kn, 0, 5. 



IL— Kn, 10, tt, 8. 



■]• 



H.- «,>, 7. \ 



S.— 10, 8, 7, 1, 3, 2./ 



, fC. {trinii/is). — 5, 3. 

 ■^ID.—l, 4, 3. 



Score :— A B love ; Y Z 2. 

 Card underlined wins trick ; card underneath leads next. 



NOTES. 



1. A sees no other chance o£ 

 making a trick or two from his 

 own hand but by ruffing Hearts. 

 He therefore leads the Qae(n. 

 Y follows the system now gene- 

 rally approved, and does not put 

 an honour on .in honour. Z 

 begins a signal, hardly justified 

 with one suit si weak; but the 

 double tenace in trumps makes 

 it desirable that Z should not 

 himstlE have to lead trumps. 

 Moreover, Z knosvs from his own 

 Hearts tliat A has led from weak- 

 ness, with a probable view to 

 rufling. 



2 and .R. A's lead could hardly 

 have better served his purpose 

 if ho had had the arranging of 

 the Hearts in the other hands. 

 The little trump is not only 

 made, but it kills the Heart 

 King. 



4. A DOW opens his long suit, 

 after getting rid of the one card 

 wh ch would have given him 

 any chance of re-entering if (as 

 is by no means unlikely) the suit 

 Is quickly established. 



5. Of course B should have 

 f.irced Z's strong trump hand 

 with the Spade Ace. But B has 

 not noticed the signal ; and if 

 he had, he would not have 

 known what to do about it. 

 What his reason was for lead- 

 ing Hearts when he must have 

 known that he was giving Z the 

 tenace by so doing, it would be 

 dilEcult to say. (That is the 

 worst of weak jilayers ; one can 

 seldom imagine their reason even 

 when they have one, but they 

 generally have none.) 



fi, 7, and 8. Of course Y leads 

 his best trump, and Z, knowing 

 A's weakness, passes the Nine. 

 B is again led through, and Z 

 then draws the trump King. 



0, 10, &o. The rest of the 

 game pUys itself. 



As Z threw down his last 

 three cards, all winning ones, A 

 remarked to B, " Lucky I played 

 as I did ! " To which B re- 

 sponded, " Yes, we got two 

 tricks by It, though we were too 

 weak to save the game ; isn't 

 that so 7 "turning to Z. "Hardly," 

 said Z, "you not only did not 

 make two tricks you would 

 otherwise have lost, but you lost 

 one trick at least you would 

 otherwise have made ; so that your play really lost you the game 

 and the rubber. This neither A nor B would believe, till Y Z 

 rearranged the cards, and', placing them face uinvards on the table, 

 showed that sound play (Independently, of course, of any know- 



Y Z win three by cards. 



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