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[March 1, 1899. 



point of view this Book is also an offender. Personally 

 we object to the Black Queen and its attendants, which 

 provide only one defence. 



PEOBLEMS. 

 No. 1. 



By V. H. M. 



Black (5). 



White (<:). 



White mates in two moves. 



No. 2. 

 By W. I. M. 



Black (:J). 



White (4). 



White mates in two moves. 



CHESS INTELLIGENCE. 



Surrey has defeated Sussex, by IH games to 8A, in the 

 Southern Counties Chess Union Competition. A Northern 

 Chess Union has recently been formed, Mr. I. M. Brown 

 being the secretary. 



The correspondence match of two games between the 

 Vienna and St. Petersburg Chess Clubs has resulted in a 

 victory for the former club, who won one game and drew 

 the other. The Janowski-Sho waiter match has also been 

 brought to a conclusion, the final score being Janowski 7, 

 Showalter 2, drawn 4. Since Mr. Sho waiter's first match 

 against Pillsbury he has never shown any form approaching 

 his performance in that encounter. 



The brilliancy prizes in the recent Vienna Tournament 

 have at length been awarded. Mr. Pillsbury takes the 

 first, the two others going to Herren Lipke and Marco. 



The London International Tournament is arranged to 

 begin on May 30th. Play will take place in St. Stephen's 

 Hall, Westminster. The principal event will be a two- 

 round tournament, limited, probably, to sixteen players. 



There will also be an unlimited one-round competition. 

 The whole tournament is expected to last six or seven 

 weeks. 



The annual match by cable between the British Isles and 

 the United States is fixed for March 10th and 11th. The 

 British team will play, as last year, at the Hotel Cecil, 

 play beginning at 8 p.m. on the 10th. The following team 

 has been selected: — Messrs. H. E. Atkins, G. E. H. Belling- 

 ham, J. H. Blackburne, A. Burn, E. M. Jackson, Herbert 

 Jacobs, T. F. Lawrence, C. D. Locock, D. Y. Mills, and 

 G. E. Wainwright. Eeserves : H. W. Trenchard, G. 

 Walker, and W. Ward. The American Committee are 

 said to be making strenuous exertions to strengthen their 

 team at the last three boards, at which the British team 

 have hitherto scored heavily ; for should their representa- 

 tives fail to turn the tables this year, the cup will be held 

 permanently by their opponents. In the British team the 

 only player new to the match is Mr. Wainwright, who has 

 been scoring very heavily in the level and handicap tour- 

 naments at the British Chess Club. Mr. Lawrence played 

 in 1897, when he had the misfortune to lose. He was 

 omitted from the 1898 team owing to his disastrous start 

 in the City of London Championship ; nevertheless, he 

 won that tournament in spite of his disastrous start, and 

 as he has the best score again this year, he could hardly 

 be left out of any representative team. It must have been 

 an invidious task to decide on the two members of the 

 1898 team to be left out ; the choice ultimately fell on Mr. 

 H. Caro, who lost at board No. 3, and Mr. Trenchard, 

 who won at board No. 10. 



KNOWLEDGE, PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



Contents of No. 159 (January). 

 The Mycetozoa, ami some Questions 

 which they Su2:gest. By the Right 

 Hon. Sir Edward Try, d.c.l., ll.d,. 

 F.B.S., and A^nes Fry. (Illustrated.) 



Ozoue and its Uses. 



Two Mouths ou the Guadalquiver. — I. 

 The River. By Harry F. Witherby. 

 {Ilhistrated.} 



Witt's Plauet DQ. 



Considerations ou the Plauet Satiiru. 

 By E. M. Autouiadi. [lUustrated.) 



Science Notes. 



British Ornithological Notes. 



Notices of Books. 



Letters. 



The Oviposit or of a Beetle {Baptoliniis 

 al't'maHs) and the Teeth of the Dung 

 Fly. By Walter Weschi!. (nius- 

 trated.) 



Electricity as an Exact Science. By 

 Howard B. Little. 



Notes on Comets aud Meteors. By 

 W. F. Denning, f.r.a.s. 



Microscopy. By John H. Cooke, 



F.L.S., F.G.S. 



The Face of the Sky for January. 

 By A. Fowler, f.r.a.s. 



Chess Column. By C. D. Locock, b.a. 



Plate.— Saturn, 



Contents of No. 160 (February). 



Ou tlic Treatment and Utilization of 



Anthropological Data. — I. Colour. 



By Arthur Thomson, m.a., m.i>. 



(Illustrated.) 

 The Bad Laneuage of Wild Birds. By 



Charles A. Witchell. 

 The Karkinokosni, or World of Crus- 



taceu.--VII. The Box Crustacea. 



By the Rev. Thomas B. R. Stebhing, 



M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S. (Blus- 



trated,) 

 Secrets of the Earth's Crust. — I. The 



Unseen Core. By Greuville A. J. 



Cole, M.E.I. A., F.G.s. (Illustrated,) 

 Notices of Books. 

 Science Notes, 

 Obitufti-y. 

 Letters. 



The November Meteors in 1898. 

 Photograph of the Nebula N. G. C. 



No. 1499 Persei. By Isaac Boberts, 



D.SC, F.R.S. (Plufe.) 

 Comparative Photographic Spectra of 



the Brighter Stars. 

 British Ornithological Notes. Con- 

 ducted by HaiTy F. Witherby, 



F.Z.S. , M.B.O.D. 



The Nervous System of oiu" Empire. 



By John Mills. 

 The Ickuield Way iu Norfolk and 



Suffolk. By W. G. Clarke, (fllus- 



trated.) 

 Microscopy. By John H. Cooke, 



F.L.a., F.G.S. 



Notes on Comets and Meteors, By 



W. F. Denning, f.r.a.s. 

 The Face of the Sky for February. 



By A. Fowler, f.r.a.s. Ilhisti-atcd.) 

 Chess Column, By C, D. Locock, b.a. 



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