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♦ KNOAATLEDGE ♦ 



[October 1, 1886. 



No. 10 Position. 

 White— K on KKt sq. P on KB2. Kt on QB2. P on KKt.S. 

 R on K3. P on Q4. Kt on KKt5. R on QB5. P on KB6, 

 B on K6. P on KB7. (Eleven pieces.) 



B on QB2. Kt on KR3. K on Q3. R on 

 P on K5. P on QB6. Kt on QR7. (Nine 

 Mate in three moves. 



Black Q on K B sq. 

 QKt3. P on QKt4, 

 pieces.) 



No. 11 Position. 



White— R on Q sq. K on QKt sq. P on KKt3. 

 P on QR4. B on QKt5. P on QR6. P on KKt7. 

 B on QB7. 



Black— Kt on KKt sq. B on QR sq. Q on KR2. 

 KtonKS. PonKBl. KonQ4. PonQB4. B on Q5. 

 (Ten pieces.) Mate in four moves. 



No. 12 Position. 

 White— K on K sq. Kt on KKt2. P on K3. B on QB4. 

 KR5. R's on QB5, QB8. (Seven pieces.) 



Black— B on KKt2. P's on KKt6, QKt6, QKt7. Kt on QR8. 

 K on QKt8. K on QB8. B on KBS. (Eight pieces.) 



White to play and compel Black to mate him in four moves. 



Kt on K4. 

 Q on KB7. 



P on KB3. 

 PonQKt5. 



P on 



SOLUTIONS. 

 1. Any. 2, Mates aooordini 



ly. 



K to B6 



Q to B5 (ch) 



KKt or B X Q 



or 1. 



Kt X K (ch) 

 QxKt 

 any 



„ Mates accord. „ B disc, (ch) mate , g 



or 1. 



B toK8 



2 B to Kt3 (dis. ch) 



■ Kt X R (ch) 



Q X Kt mate. 



No. 6.-1. 



No. 7.-1 



Q toB7 



BxQ 

 Kt to BG 



any 

 Kt mates 



R to R8 



K to K4 

 B to Kt2 



or 1. 



RxQ 



or 1. 



Kt (K4) to B3 



any 

 Kt mates 



y to R6 &o. 

 2 B x Kt (ch ) 



KtxB 

 „ Q mates 



If 1. 



any 

 „ Mates accordingly. 



No. 8.-1. 



K to Kt5 



or 



B to Q3 



Kt to Kt6 (ch) 



Kx B 



Kt to B6 



1. 



K to B3 

 BxP 



K moves 



Mates accordingly. 



or 1. 



No. 9.— 1. 



No. 10.— 1. 



Q to Kt sq 

 PxQ 



P to Q5 



PtoB5 



R to R5 (ch) 



" B to B4 



Ej<JB 

 mate 



3. ^- 



Kt to Kt5 



K toK4 

 KtxP 



K to Q6 

 or 1. 



mate 



No. 11.— 1. 



RxB 

 PtoQ6 g 



mate 



B to KB4 



QxP 

 QxKKt 

 BT(rKt2 

 Q toR7 



any other 

 Pto B4 



2. 



mate 



KxR 

 KtxP (ch) 



K to B5 

 P to Q6 



mate 



or 1 . any other 



KtxF(cli) 

 K to K4 

 , P to B4 



mate 



or 1. 



If 2.. 



No. 12. 

 Stratfigie ' 

 solvers. 



Bto B3 

 g B X B (ch) 



If 2. 



Q to Bsrj 

 Kt X P(ch') 



4. 



any 

 QxKt 



mate 

 most difficult sui-mate. 



KxKt 

 Qxa;(ch) 

 ■ Blo"K4' 

 QtoQB6(ch) 

 BxQ 

 BxB 

 mate 



was published in " La 

 some years ago, and beat nearly all the regular corps of 



1. B to Qo (disc, ch) I B to B5 if 1. B to B6 (ch) 



2. R(B5)toB6 Bto K4 (best) 2. R x B (ch) KttoB7(ch) 



3. P to R6 B moves 3. R x Kt (ch) P x R 



i. K or P X B Kt mates 4. R x P (ch) KxR mate 



N.B. — The only reason for playing 1. B to Q5 is to provide for 

 Black in the first variation playing 3. B to Q 3 ; when if 4. E x B 

 Black replies 4. K to B7 (ch), and unless the white B stands at Q5 

 the white R could interpose. 



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A MALEVOLENT CRITIC. 



The Siitiirdai/ lierietv has not thought it disgraceful to once more 

 justify its title to be called the " Saturday Reviler." This time it is 

 to scoff at an aged painter of the highest repute — Mr. Herbert — 

 upon his retirement to the rank of " Honorary Academician," after 

 a career such as few, if any, painters living can boast. This it 

 pleases " the Reviler " to congratulate artists ujron as "good news," 

 without a word or a thought of what the retiring Academician has 

 done in art, except to ulter the contemiitible untruth that "his 

 resignation means that he has found out that he is beaten,'' not by 

 the natural failing of old age, but because he failed to impress such 

 a writer as this with the special exhibition of the works of his long 

 life, that was made some few years back to mark the completion of 

 his last great picture for the House of Lords, "The Judgment of 

 Daniel." That exhibition, which most people who know anything 

 about painting in its highest style of religious and monumental art, 

 thought a most interesting display of a painter's career, is described 

 by this most genial of critics as "acres of pallid purple canvases, 

 with wizened saints and virgins in attitudinising groups." But, 

 as Goethe says, " The eye sees what it came to see." The 

 " Saturday's " art critic, if he ever saw this exhibition at all, went 

 to see the "acres of purple canvases, with their wizened saints" 

 which were not there. No matter — it suits his purpose to declare 

 that they were, just as it does to cram into a paragraph more 

 ignorance, insolence, and false assertions combined than is often to be 

 met with even in this locality of literature, where the editor seems 

 to be surrounded with all the prigs, and the pumps, and the .snobs 

 of the literary profession. But the art prig had his little game in 

 thus flinging dirt at a venerable painter retiring upon his laurels, 

 and, while he did this with his one hand, he points with his 

 cleaner paw to lih favourite painters that he would recommend for 

 election to the Academic Forty, though such is his habit that he 

 cauuct even do this without scattering some slander upon artists he 

 writes down as asses. The force of Sattirday Iteriew assurance 

 could hardly further go, but done in this dirty way, wrapped up in 

 abuse of an eminent man, it becomes abominable and utterly 

 unworthy of the public press. — Truth. 



Contents of No. 11. 



PAGE 



The Unknowable. By Hichard A. 



Proctor 321 



Mr. Fruudc ou Greater Britain . . 32'2 



Etna's Eruptions 324 



Tlie Story of Creation : a Plain 

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EdwardClortd 327 



Coal. By W. Mattieu Williams . . 329 

 Optical Recreations. By a Fellow 

 of the Royal Astronomical 



Society 331 



Americanisms. By Bichard A. 

 Proctor 332 



Indian Myths. By ".Stella Occi- 



dens " 333 



The Star- clouds in the Pleiades. 



By Richard A. Proctor 334 



Three Puzzles 336 



The Naturalist's Laboratory 337 



Gossip. By Richard A. Proctor . . 339 



Reviews 341 



Our Chess Column. By "ile- 



phisto " 342 



Our Whist Column. By " Five of 



Clubs" 343 



The Face of the Sky for Septem- 

 ber. ByF.E.A. S 344 



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