Mat 2, 1887.] 



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tioiisness of its author, which established its results on so 

 irrefragable a basis and marked so verj' notable an epoch in 

 the progress of physical science. These volumes will always 

 possess an interest, as embodying the details of the re- 

 searches of one of the most able und remarkable scientific 

 men of the present century, and one who was in the truest 

 sense of the word an epoch-maker in physics. 



Geography made Easy. By John Gibson, M.A. Third 

 Edition. (London : Eelfe Brothers.) Public Examination 

 Scripture Manuals — Si. Matt/iew's Gospel, St. Mark's Gos- 

 pel. By Arthur Riches, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S. (London : 

 Relfe Brothers.) T/te Mtisician: a Guide for Pianoforte 

 Students. By Ridley Prentice. Grade YI. (London : 

 Swan Sonnenschein & Go. 1887.) — These are three educa- 

 tional works, each carefull}' and thoroughly done, and suited 

 to the wants of the student.s whom they address. In the 

 case of Mr. Prentice's work, such students must, however, 

 be very advanced ones. 



Uonie Rule " Wrinkles " for Ladies. By Aunt Betsy. 

 (London : Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co. 1887.) — In 

 this tiny manual " Aunt Betsy " gives a variety of very 

 useful hints indeed to young wives, mothers, and house- 

 keepers. Its trivial cost places it within the reach of all 

 such, and is out of all proportion to the real value of its 

 contents. 



Easy Guide to the Principal CoiMtellations and Stars 

 visible in Great Britain. By E. W. (London : Griffith, 

 Farran, Okeden & Welsh.) — This cheap little sheet forms a 

 capital primer for familiarising the very beginner with the 

 face of our English night sky. It is very well done, and 

 will be found really useful by those who wi.sh to learn the 

 chief stars visible in this country. 



The Artist's Manual of Pigments. By H. C. Standage. 

 Second Edition, revised. (London : Crosby Lockwood & 

 Co. 1887.) — The commendation we bestowed upon the first 

 edition of Mr. Standage's valuable practical work (Know- 

 ledge, vol. ix. p. 259) may be unhesitatingly extended to 

 it in its revised and improved foim. No painter's library 

 can be held to be complete without it. 



Suggestive Lessons in Practical Life. Fourth Series. 

 (Smith it Elder.) — This volume completes a very useful 

 series, and we are happy to extend to it the unqualified 

 praise given to its predecessors. We have received from 

 the same publishers Tolume X. of the Dictionary of Xational 

 Biography, on the rapid progress of which spirited under- 

 taking we congratulate them. We have also to acknow- 

 ledge a new volume of the " Book Lover's Library " ; The 

 Dedication of Books, by H. B. Wheatley (Elliot Stock), 

 with its choice selection of some famous ancient and modern 

 dedications, from Shakespeare downwards, to friends and 

 patrons ; Immoilesty in Art, a Letter to Sir Frederick 

 Leighton, by Rev. F. G. Lee, to whom we may commend 

 Browning's " Parleying? " ^oth Francis Furini ; Babies' 

 Crairling Rugs, and How to Make Them, by E. S. 

 Windsor (Griffith k Fari-an) — homely and practical; 

 JacksoiUs Vertical Writing Copy Books (Sampson Low & 

 Co.) — a good idea well carried out ; Part II. of the Smith- 

 sonian Report, 1884 ; The American Xaturalist, in which is 

 the opening paper of what promises to be a valuable series 

 on the '■ Significance of Sex." Of papers in the current 

 number of the Century Magazine everybody will read Mark 

 Twain's amusing but humiliating paper on " English as She 

 is Taught," and the discerning few will not skip Professor 

 Whitney's article on the " Veda." St. Xicholas is up to its 

 high average, and in Longman's Mr. Rider Haggard keeps 

 us at fever heat as to the fate of Allan Quatermain and his 

 co-adventurers, while Mr. Louis Stevenson gives a delight- 

 ful sketch of an old Highland shepherd. 



We have also on our table Dr. Richardson's Asclepiad 

 (London : Longmans k. Co.), with an excellent article of 

 great popular interest on " Natural Selection for Science 

 and for Art." The Medico-Legal .Journal, New York. 

 The Jottrnal of the Xnlional Fish Culture Association 

 (London : The Blackfriars Printing and Publishing Com- 

 pany, 1887), interesting to all concerned in the develop- 

 ment of an almost unlimited source of valuable food. 

 Practical Hints on House Drainage (London : The Scientific 

 Publishing Company, 1887), useful to hou.seholders when 

 sanitary arrangements are in any way defective ; and the 

 Report of the Papers read and Discussions at the Conference 

 of the Camera Club (same publishers). 



#ur Ci)fei£{ Column. 



By " Mephisto." 



INTERNATIONAL CHESS CONGRESS. 

 ^^^^^gp HE programme has been issued of the fifth bi- 

 ' f^trfrraS > annual Congress of the German Chess Associa- 

 ■^^ (T»%J*'1 jj^^^ which will assemble at Frankfurt on July 17. 

 There will be plentj' of attractions in the shape 

 of various minor tournaments for those amateurs 

 who may wish to make the Congress an excuse for 

 spending their holidays on the Rhine. The prin- 

 cipal event, however, will be the loternational 

 Masters' Tournament. The prizes are oOl , 

 Sll. \0s., -Jol., lol; 10/., 71. 10s. Conditions are, as usual, twenty 

 moves an hour, play from nine till one and four till eight, three 

 games to be played in two days, each player to play with every other, 

 drawn games to count half, Sec. There is also a prize of ol. for 

 the most brilliant game, generously given by Mr. P. H. Lewis. 



I venture to predict tbat this tournament will prove a greater 

 success than any former meeting. There are various causes which 

 will bring this about, despite the fact that the prizes are small 

 when compared with those given by the British Chess Association. 

 If I may make use of a paradoxical assertion, I would say it is 

 nearer for Englishmen to go from London to Frankfurt than it is 

 for Germans to travel from Frankfurt to London. Frankftu-t is 

 centrally situated, and living there being cheap, many of the 

 strong Viennese players w'ill, no doubt, attend. Others, again, will 

 go for the purpose of enjoying a holiday. But, in reviewing the 

 chess masters of the day before our mind's eye, we have no doubt 

 that there will be at least two of the young players in Berlin 

 who will join the masters. The probabilities are that Herr von 

 Bardeleben, of Berlin, and M. Tschigorin, of St. Petersburg — two 

 players of the highest order — who did not compete on the last 

 occasion at Hamburg, in 1S8.">, may do so now. We may 

 predict with certainty that M. Taubenhaus, from Paris, will 

 participate, and, according to all accounts, he as well as 

 the other rising players mentioned have greatly improved, and 

 will make a stout attempt to wrest the laurels from the older and 

 more experienced masters, the same as Gunsberg succeeded in doing 

 in 'So at Hamburg. We hope to welcome another fresh chess com- 

 petitor at these tournaments in Mr. Lipshutz, from New York, who 

 made his first successful debut at the B. C. A. meeting in London 

 last year. England, if we are not mistaken, will also send her 

 usual contingent of players, reinforced this time probably by Pollock 

 and Burn, both players of high merit, who did not compete in any 

 former masters' tournament in Germany. Zukertort may perhaps 

 be induced to take part, for the simple reason that, where there is 

 such a plethora of chess talent, a true chess-player will naturally be 

 disinclined to allow himself to be excluded by mere monetary con- 

 siderations. All these probabilities favour the assumption that the 

 Chess Congress at Frankfurt wiU be a great success. 



"THE CHESS PROBLEM."* 



Of chess-books written in the English language it may well be 

 said that many that are written are not desired, and a few that are 

 desired are not written. The book before us is eminently a desirable 

 work. It contains iOO problems, comprising 2, 3, 4, aud 5 movers, 

 suimates, and prize problems, the composition of the four eminent 

 English problemists mentioned above. These form a valuable col- 

 lection of fine problems, alike interesting to the lovers of problems 



* Text-book with Illustrations containing Four Hundred Problems 

 selected from the works of H. .1. C. Andrews, E. N. Frankenstein, 

 B. G. Laws, and C. Planck. Cassell & Company, Limited, London. 



