7, Leadenhall Street. 



THE ILLUSTRATED HORSE-DOCTOR-(^-^). 



seen, and is written in so popular a fashion, 

 and is so free from anything approaching 

 technical phraseology, that its precepts 

 cannot fait to be comprehended by even 

 those who are comparatively uninstructed 

 in the mysteries of Veterinary science. The 

 volume only requires to be known to ensure 

 purchasers."— Glasgow Morning Journal, 

 July 4, 1860. 



"This most valuable book should be in the 

 hands of every one who uses and cares for 

 his horse. It is written in the most careful 

 and scientific manner, yet in the simplest 

 language and specially designed for non- 

 professional readers. Illustrated by draw- 

 ings, descriptions of the various stages and 

 aspects of disease, and giving the latest and 

 best modes of treatment, it cannot fail to 

 meet that reception from the public, which 

 the publishers, for its production, so richly 

 deserve." — Aldershott Gazette i August 11, 

 1860. 



" Many years ago the writer of these lines 

 was incidentally 'read up* in horse-litera- 

 ture, and a good deal in the way of sporting 



people. His reading and observation in 

 that way have been very pleasantly recalled 

 by this model book. We need not waste 

 words about this admirable volume— manual, 

 we were going to say, but it is more of an 

 armful than a handful. It is quite beyond 

 praise of ours in its completeness and 

 general excellence, concerned as it is our 

 lot to be with the study instead of the steed. 

 But we showed it to a friend of ours (living 

 at Horsleydown) who spends his mornings at 

 Tattersalls, and his afternoons at the 

 Alhambra, and his evenings at Astley's, and 

 his criticism was conveyed in these emphatic 

 words, " Sir," said he, (his name is Eyder,) 

 " it is the Buchan's Domestic Medicine of 

 the stable; the mantle of Bucephalus has 

 fallen upon Mv. Mayhew." Every way the 

 work is interesting, and it is beautifully got 

 up ; the paper and print being the best we 

 have seen for some time." —Illustrated Times, 

 September 8, 1860. 



" Mr. Mayhew is not only master of his 

 subject, but knows how to teach others to 

 master it also."— Home News for India. 



In One Yol. 8vo, price 15s. bound in cloth. 



THE HISTORY OF CHESS, 



PILOSI THE TIME OF THE 



EARLY INVENTION OF THE GAME IN INDIA, 



TILL THE PERIOD OF 



■ ITS ESTABLISHMENT IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE. 

 By DUNCAN FORBES, LL.D. 



* # * Containing, from Oriental Sources, a correct description of the Cha- 

 itjranga, or Primeval Game of the Ancient Hindus. Also, a full Explanation 

 of the Theory and Practice of the Shatnanj, or Mediaeval Game, as played hy 

 the Persians, the Arabs, and the Europeans, down to the beginning of the 

 Sixteenth Century of our era. The whole illustrated with numerous Notes 

 and Diagrams. To -which is added an Appendix, containing Essays and Dis- 

 cussions on the Game from various sources. 



This is, perhaps, the best book on Chess 

 that lias yet been written — the best because 

 the moBt comprehensive. Professor Porbes 

 has had the advantage of following numerous 



Sioneers in the difficult paths of Chess 

 iscovery, and, by putting this and that 

 scrap of information together, he has com- 

 piled a book which, by giving all sides of the 

 question, enables the reader to draw his own 

 conclusions, andformhis ownjudgment, with 

 respect to the infinite variety of theories 

 which have been broached as to the origin 

 and progress of Chess. 

 No one need be frightened from a perusal 



of this work by the idea that it deals with 

 dry details. The stories of the invention of 

 Chess among the Hindoos have an interest 

 in themselves apart from the question of 

 their truth and reliability, and the steps by 

 which the Chatwanga, of Hindostan, are 

 traced to the Shatnanj of the Persians and to 

 the modern Chess, must be highly enter- 

 taining even to those who take little or no 

 interest in the game. To the Chess-player, 

 Professor Forbes's work will be found indisr-- 

 pensable, as containing all that is known of 

 the rise and progress of the game, from thc- 

 earliest ages to the present time. 



