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KNOWLEDGE 



[June 1, 1898. 



PE0BLEM8. 



No. 1. 



By A. C. Challenger. 



Black (If). 



m 





White (7). 



White matea in two moves. 



No. 2. 



By J. T. Blakemore. 



(From the Birminiiham W'eekhi Mercury.) 



BlIck (1»). 



White (j). 



White mates in three moves. 



CHESS I NTELL IGENCE. 



It is with the greatest regret that we learn the news of 

 the death of the Kev. W. Wayte, for many years honorary 

 treasurer of the St. George's Chess Club, and formerly 

 professor of Greek at London University. Prof. Wayte, 

 who was for twenty-three years a classical master at 

 Eton, was certainly one of the very strongest amateur 

 players in England. His knowledge of the whole theory 

 of the game was profound, the openings being perhaps his 

 especial forte. He was a most successful competitor at the 

 annual meetings of the old Counties Chess Association, and 

 was captain of the southern team when the North v. South 

 contests were instituted. Prof. Wayte was the editor of 

 an annotated edition of Plato's " Protagoras," and other 

 classical works. His interesting " Chess Reminiscences " 

 appeared in the liritish Chess ^[llf/<l:ine (March and April, 

 1898). It will surprise many who knew him to find that 

 he was in his seventieth year. 



We omitted last month to record the result of the 

 Pillsbury-Showalter match. Mr. Showalter did not play 

 nearly so well as last year, and was defeated by seven 

 games to three, with two draws. Mr. D. G. Baird has 

 tied with Mr. Kohler for the championship of the Manhattan 

 Chess Club. 



Herr Marco has won the latest Vienna Club tourney, 

 Herr Schleohter being as low as fifth. The international 



tourney at Vienna begins this month. Considerable dis- 

 satisfaction is expressed at the necessity for playing two 

 rounds ; so unpopular, in fact, is this condition that the 

 committee have been compelled to extend the time for 

 entries, owing to the paucity of desirable competitors. It 

 is stated that Herr Lasker will be among the abstainers on 

 this account, and possibly, too, Mr. PUlsbury. Messrs. 

 Blackburne, Burn, and Caro will represent Eugland. 



Mr. P. F. Blake, the eminent problem composer, has 

 won the level tournament of the Manchester Chess Club. 

 Mr. Lawrence has again won the City of London tourna- 

 ment, although he started badly owing to ill-health. 

 Messrs. L. Seraillier and W. Ward were leading for the 

 greater part of the tournament. 



REVIEW. 

 The Art of Chess. By James Mason. Second Edition. 

 (Horace Cox.) This is an extension of the edition of 1895 

 from three hundred and eleven to four hundred and twenty 

 pages. The price is increased from five shillings to six 

 shillings net. Apart from a very interesting and suggestive 

 introduction, we find that the section on end games is in- 

 creased by forty pages ; the part deaUng with middle-game 

 combinations being practically the same as in the former 

 edition. The section on openings, which Mr. Mason rightly 

 and logically 'places last, is considerably enlarged, and again 

 the introductory remarks are most useful. Mr. Mason has 

 during the last few years attained the position of the leading 

 English chess author. He is the first Englishman to treat 

 the game as a science to the extent of adopting a scientific 

 method and scientific language in expounding it. Mr. 

 Mason's style is terse and epigrammatic — at times even 

 Carlylean, but, above all things, Masonic. In other 

 words, the book is eminently readable. 



KNOWLEDGE, PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



Contents ol No. 150 (April). 



PAGE 



Economic Botany. By Jolin R. 



Jackson, A.L.S., etc 73 



The Stracture of Ireland. By 

 GrenviUe A. J. Cole, u.b.i.a., 



F.o.s. (nimlratei) 74 



The Sea-Otter and its Extermina- 

 tion. By K. Lydekker, b.a., 



r.R.s. (Illustrated) 78 



British Ornithological Notes 80 



Letters 81 



British Bees. — II. By Fred. 

 Enock, F.L.s.,F.E.s.,€tc. (Illus- 

 trated) 82 



lu the Moon's Northern Regions. 



By Arthur Mee, F.E.A.a &4 



Notices of Books 85 



Stars having Large Proper Motion. 



By E. C. Pickering 89 



The Level of Snnspots. By the 



Eev. Arthur East. (Uluslrafud) 89 

 The Evolntionot the Venom-Fang. 



By Lionel Jerris. (lUustraUi) 91 



Notes on Comets and Meteors. 

 By W. F. Denning, f.r.a.s 94 



The Face of the Sky for April. 



By Herbert Sadler, f.b.a.s 95 



Chess Column. By C. D. Locock 95 



Plate.— The Lunar Alps and their 

 Neighbourhood. 



Contents of No. 151 (May). 



PAas 



British Bees. — III. By Fred. 

 Enock, F.L.s.jF.E.s., etc. (niu»- 

 trated) 97 



A Valley on Sao Nicolau, Cape 

 Verde Islands. By Boyd Alex- 

 ander, M.u.o.r. {llXusUated) ... 100 



Deserts and their Inhabitants. 

 By K. Lydekker, B.A.,F.R,s. ... 101 



The Karkinokosm, or World of 

 Crustacea.— III. By the Bev. 

 Thomas E. B. Stebbing, m.a., 

 F.R.9., F.L.S. (Illustrated) 104 



Nebulae and Eegion round y Cas- 

 siopeise. By Isaac Eoberts, 



» SC, F.R.S. 105 



The Recent Eclipse. By E. 

 Walter Maunder, f.b.a.s. 



(niustrafed) 107 



Notices of Books 109 



British Ornithological Notes 112 



Science Notes 112 



Letters 112 



Nature's Finer Forces.— Some 

 Notes on Old Work and New 

 Developments. By H. Snowden 



Ward, F.E.p.s 114 



Botanical Studies. — III. Junger- 

 mannia. By A. Vanghan Jen- 

 nings.F.L.s., F.o.s. (Iliustriited) 115 

 Notes on Comets and Meteors. 



By W. F. Denning, f.b.a.s.... U8 

 The Face of the Skv for May. 



By Herbert Sidler, f.r.a.s 119 



Chess Column. By CD. Locock 119 

 Plate. — Nebalse near y Cassiopeifie. 



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