FOREST AND STREAM. 



117 



kotes (S. A. Charles, Cincinnati, OUlo). 

 (a) Of this move (the Key move of trie Paulsen Defence) an eminent 

 authority says : " It should be preceded by Q Rt-K >." 



(6) Black's last move having been premature, an opportunity was 

 given White to play Kt-Kt5 to advantage. The move made allows 

 Black to adopt the Paulsen Defence. 



■■ i-KU> would have been better. The game follows the books 



OTESoby .tottinus. 



—Front the Loudon Figaro we learn that a change has latterly taken 

 Place in the German diplomatic service, which, apart from any political 

 interpretation, will be most interesting to chess players. The celebra- 

 ted author of the German Hamlbuch dee Schachipieli, Baron Ileyder- 

 brantvon der Lasa, who has been for many yeats Imperial German 

 Ambassador at Copenhagen, has been transferred in the same capacity 

 to the court of the King of Wortemburg in Stuttgardt, 



—Cincinnati has fallen Into line on tolephonlc chess. Belden of the 

 Times first set the telephonic ball in motion. The Commercial says: 

 " in a year or two it will be a very common form of social enjoyment 

 and club routine." 



—Mr. E. B. Holt has canned off tUe silver medal at the tournament of 

 the Quebec Chess Club. 



— Wilhlemj, the violinist, Is very fond of chess, and plays a strong 

 game. 



—A chess column has made its appearance in the Fortnightly Gazette, 

 under the management of H. F. Lee, of Brantford, Ontario. 



—In Mr. Shaw's correspondence tourney between Dominion chess 

 players, the leading scores arc : J. Henderson, 1 won, 2 drawn ; J. W. 

 Shaw, 6'/z won, 3 drawn ; J. E. Narraway, 6 won, s drawn ; W. Braith- 

 walte, (, won, o drawn ; M. J. Murphy, 5 won, drawn. 



—We again Invaded friend Belden's chess quarters, and our readers 

 arc indebted to liiui for.this week's cursories. Among his numerous 

 exchanges we noticed the Tasmaniau Mail, the chess column ot which 

 is excellent, although rather restricted as to space. 



—In the recent tournament between the strongest chess players of 

 Pittsburgh, Pa. (each local club having two representatives), the two 

 winners in which were to play a game of Living Chess, resulted as 

 follows : 



Won. Lost. Won. Lost. 



J W Collins c.'s s>:-, Chas MeEnhlty 6*4 nu 



MajKWLowe 10 5 Alex Ballantine «M 3X 



DrTHDavlB 18 3 J A Stephens S; ; S'- 



Geo Lander 4 10 JamesReed . 



Gi'o Worthiogton io;j Ci< W C sniiwagon 3 5 



The game was played between Dr. Davis and Mr. Ballantine (which 

 Dr. Davis won), and was a great public attraction. 



—The Charlestown (S. c.) Nem and Courier calls tor the ra-orgoniza- 

 tion of the chess club in that city. Before the war it had one of the 

 largest organizations of the kind in the United States. 



—Of our exchanges none are more welcome than the ' Chess Flayers' 

 Chronicle when it chances to reach our hands. The February number 

 of this paper is an Improvement on its predecessor last on our tables 

 The game department is par excellence, and the problem pages not only 

 additionally attractive, but also interesting. 1 We recommend it to our 

 readers. Subscriplion, about $2, through W. W. Morgan, or Barbican, 

 London, E. C, England. 



—One of the most valuable chess columns that reaches us in exchange 

 is that contained iu the Hiuldersfield College Magazine, edited by Prof. 

 John Watklnson, We also urge our readers to subscribe for it. Sub- 

 scription only ?t 10 for a magazine, one-half of which or thereabout, 

 is usually devoted to nrst-class chess matter. Address John Watkin. 

 son, Palrfleld, Ifuddersileld, England. 



—The chess columns in the Canadian Spectator and Cincinnati Com- 

 mercial are heartily welcomed by our contemporaries. We have not 

 yet aad the pleasure of seeing them. 



Notice.— Chess exchanges, communications and solutions should be 

 addressed "Chess Editor Forkst and Stream, P. O. box 54, Wolcott- 

 vtlle, Conn." 



—See Bogardus' advertisement. 



J$ot/ ffttbJimtwtts, 



THE MARCH MONTHLIES. 



—The Popular Science Monthly for March opens with an article 

 by Prof. Tyndall, who writes of " The Electric Light." Professor 

 Oscar Schmidt discusses " Science and Socialism." reviewing the 

 ground taken by the German Socialists, who urge that their princi- 

 ples are in acoord with the Darwinian theory. Dr. Geo. M. Beard 

 contributes an entertaining paper on " Experiments with Living 

 Human Beings," explaining some of the deceptions and errors 

 nto which experimenters are liable to fall. Warren Wilkinson dis- 

 cusses the question, " Is Conscience Primitive ?" There are illus- 

 trated papers on " The Aarddark or Earth Hog," and " The Sting 

 of the Honey. Bee." "The First Three Years of Childhood" 

 describes the mental development of the human being for that 

 period. The paper which will perhaps attract the greatest atten- 

 tion is that of Prof. J. Norman Lookyer on " The Chemical Ele- 

 ments." A number of other essays, with the editorial department, 

 make up the number. 



— Dr. Isaac I. HayeB contributes the opening story in the March 

 St, Nicholas, " An Adventure on an Iceberg." It is told in Dr. 

 HayeB' entertaining style, and is a capital leader. "The Obsti- 

 nate Weather Cock," and its adventures with the unterrified 

 Colorado beetle, furnishes a subject for Horaoe E. Scudder. "An 

 American Mardi-Gras," with a number of suitable engravings, is 

 descriptive of the New Orleans carnival. The serial stories of 

 Susan Coolidge and F. R. Stockton are continued, and Julian 

 Hawthorne's fairy story, "Rurupty-Dudget'a Tower," ib con- 

 cluded. There are any number of stories and poems and puzzles 

 and letters and pictures, and all the other good things. 

 —In the March Atlanii* Mr. W. W. Story contributes the second 

 installment of "A Roman Holiday Twenty Tears Ago . " Other 

 papers are " Ghost Stories ;" Mark Twain's " Tho Groat Rovolu- 

 tion in Pitcairn ;" "JRosamond and the Conductor," a story by 

 Katharina Carrington ; " The Natural History of Polities, " by \ . 

 S. Binder 5 "Our Land Policy," by George W. Julian ; " Presiden- 

 tial Electioneering in the Senate," and "Americanisms,'' by Rich- 

 ard Grant White. Whittier has two poems, Longfellow one ; and 

 there are poemB by Eose Terry Cooke and Lucy Lee Pleasants. 

 The "Contributors' Club," and the department of "Recent Lit- 

 erature," are each characteristic in their way. 



,•> for March contains itauanal quota of republications 

 from foreign magazines, among the papers being Spencer Wal- 

 Bfatnre, a Chapter from a Sew History j" the 

 conclusion of "The Romance of a Painter," from tho French of 

 n," by Vernon Leo; "The Evil Eye;" 

 "Dr. Samuel Smiles' Works on Self Help;" Town Bred Poets;" 

 "Twoi-adiea: Mrs. Jameson and Mrs. Fanny Kemble.'" Room 

 is made for the long -promised story by Barnet PhillipB, entitled 

 "My comedy," which is the romance of a playwright whose com- 

 edy comes very near being a tragedy. It is, well told, and will 

 hold the attention of the reader all tho way through. The Editor's 

 Table discusses "Paganism and Fiction," " Fitness in Art," 

 "Tho City Boautiful" and "Water-Color;" and the Books of the 

 Day department reviews a dozen of the principal recent public! 

 tions. 



— The sad death of Riohard Realf has arouaod much interest ii 

 that poet's unhappy life, and the pages of tho March LippinceiC. 

 devoted to a sketch of Realf by Rossiter Johnson are especially 

 timely. Edward King's "Hungarian Types and Austrian Pictures 1 

 is concluded, as is also " Women's Husbands." H. M. Robinson 

 spends "A Day with Hudson's Bay Dog Sledges," and finds some- 

 thing new to say about a very old subject. "My Village in the 

 South" is the first installment of the promisod series of papers 

 by Miss Annie Porter. " Monsieur Pampalon's Adventure" i 

 story by Anna Eichburg, and D. C. Macdonald has an entertaining 

 slory, "Joseph's Adventure." " Pottery and Porcelain" at the 

 Paris Exposition is an illustrated paper by Miss Jennie J. Young. 

 There are poems by Fawcett and " G. S." The Editorial depart- 

 ments are well filled. 



—The Golden Rule has the usual installment of Mr. Murray's 

 usual "Adirondack Tale." The biographical paper is devoted to 

 Richard H. Dana. Mr. Bradford K. Pierce contributes an instruc- 

 tive paper on "The Riverside Press," detailing the various pro- 

 oesseB through which books pass before coining from that world- 

 famous establishment. There are stories, sermons, poems, 

 editorials, discussions of social topics, literature and art, and, 

 last of all, the fashion plates. 



The Naturalist.— The February number of the American 

 Naturalist opens with a very attractive article by Mr. I. C. Rus- 

 sell, entitled " A Sketch of New Zealand with Pen and Pencil." 

 This paper, which is copiously illustrated by excellent wood cuts, is 

 one of the most interesting of the number. "Notes on tho Man- 

 ufacture of Pottery among Savage Races," while in itself very in- 

 structivo, derives an added interest from the fact that it is from the 

 pen of the late Cb. Fred Hartt, whoso excellent work as Chief of 

 the Geological Commission of Brazil is so well known to all sci- 

 entific men in this country. An attractive botanical article by Dr. 

 Moses N. Elrod tolls us about the "Seeds of the Violet and other 

 Plants as Projectiles." "Instinct and Reason," by Dr. F. 0, Clark, 

 is a valuable essay presenting mauy interesting scientific facts and 

 showing some of their bearings on evolution. It is to be continued. 

 The number closes with an article on "The Discovery of Turtle- 

 back Celts in the District of Columbia" by Dr. W. J. Hoffman. In 

 the " Department of Recent Literature" we note an illustrated re- 

 view of " Brehm's Thierlebra;" and in "General Notes" we see a 

 correction by Dr. Packard of his statement in the preceding num- 

 ber of tho Naturalist that he had discovered the male eel. It ap • 

 pears that the motile bodieB, supposed to bo spermatozoa were 

 yolk particles with an unusually marked Browuian movement. 



Hunt's Magazine.— Hunt's for February contains a resume 

 of Canadian yachting, in which the conservative elements of 

 Toronto sound their hom, and show that the Royal Canadian is 

 still in existence— something no one else was aware of, as the 

 olub has hidden its light under a bushel so far. The " Cruise of 

 the Onekoo," "The Season of 1878," and "Belaying the Binnacle" 

 are continued from former numbers. 



—The February number of The Magazine of Art, published by 

 Cassell, Potter & Galpin, opens with a sketch of the President of 

 the Royal Academy, Sir Frederick Leighton. The opening install- 

 ment of a series of papers on " English Portrait Painters " is de- 

 voted to Gainsborough. Fully as interesting a sketch is that of 

 James Clarke Hook, who is distinguished for his studies from 

 fishermen's life. A variety of matter fill up the pages of the 

 magazine. The price of each number is twenty-five cents. 



Model Yacht Building i A Treatise on the Construction of 

 Model Yachts, with Remarks on Cruising and Racing and 

 the Management of open Boats ; also the Lines for a Rac- 

 ing Cutter, Suitable for a five to twenty-tonner. By 

 Tyrrel E. Biddle. Chas. Wilson, Publisher, 157 Leaden- 

 hall St., London, England. Price $2. 

 The first of the year brings to light a new volume in the rapidly 

 growing yachting literature of Great Britain, which is certain to 

 receive a hearty welcome from all devoted to the fascinating sport 

 of model yacht building and sailing, as well as by many others who 

 may profit by reading the above volume in furtherance of the 

 rapidly extending feeling in favor of testing vessels to be built by 

 practically experimenting with models upon their lines. The long 

 continued and most thorough researches of Prof. Froude at the 

 Government establishment at Torquay, by which the most import 

 ant developments that have given to naval design an almost en- 

 tirely new aspect within the last decade or so, have been firmly 

 established and accepted, have gone far to inspire the yachting 

 public with greater confidence in the value of practical compari- 

 sons and inferences deduced from model or miniature yacht sailing. 

 The work of Mr. Biddle comes to us at an opportune moment, and 

 as his subjects are treated from a strictly practical standpoint, no 

 exception can be taken to his views on the ground of their lacking 

 the application of actual test. It is very concisely written, and 

 the matter cleverly arranged. Though treating in the main of 

 models smaller than we are accustomed to in America, the chap- 

 ters on the three methods of construction — by lifts, by sohd block 

 and by rib and plank— will be instructive and useful ; while all 

 that relates to load keels, their casting and fitting, will apply to 

 our model yachts with equal force as to the English, especially as 

 in this respect our model sailors have discarded iron and taken to 

 the "superior metal," showing that they are ahead even of their 

 brethren owning large vessels. The leading chapters on draught- 

 ing yachts are excellent, and cannot fail to be understood, as they 

 explain the "throe plans" in as lucid a manner aa anything of 

 that nature we have seen, Ihey servo to show how intimately 



the draught and model— in other words, theory and practice— are 

 blended, and how little sense Ihero is in the attempts made bythfl 

 ignorant to draw a lino of dernarkation between the two, 

 i hoy are really one and tho same, and leading to like results. Tho 

 conclusions Mr. Biddle arrives at, in regard to the superiority of 

 the moderately narrow deep keel cutter over the sloop, are equally 

 borne out in our practioe on this side of the ocean. Possibly 

 some of hie American readers may take umbrage at the Terj 

 opinion he has of our small style of craft, concerning win: 

 says : "If you have a very shallow lightly ballasted yacht with an 

 open cockpit, by all means koop in smooth water and under a lee ; 

 if, on the contrary, you possess a fine weathorly little craft, with 

 ballast stowed low, and a heavy metal keel, completely decked 

 over, you need not scruple to venture forth in tho channel. * ' 

 Indeed, a modern racing 5-tonner will keep the sea, and make 

 good weather of it, when an old-fashioned hoy (ten times her size) 

 would run for Bholter." Testimony like this from one who has 

 sailed all types of boats— in America as well as in England— should 

 bear us out in our attempt to lift yachting and yacht seamanship 

 to a higher piano that it at present occupies. In relation to thie 

 and kindred subjects Mr. Biddle's book will be found full of inter- 

 esting passages. The book is well illustrated, and its make-up is 

 excellent, commending it to the approval of model sailors, and 

 others as well. 



How We Saved the Old Fabm, and how it became a Nev> 

 Farm. By " A Young Farmer." Boston : Loring, Pub- 

 lisher. 1879. 

 This is a book which may be read with great profit by the young 

 men who are deserting their Now England homes to wander away 

 in quest of fortune. We hear much nowadays of the farms which 

 are all exhausted and no longer fit for cultivation ; but we suspect 

 that in many cases there is lacking only the energy and thrift of 

 of the fathers of these restless sons. Before the young farmer 

 finally signs the deed of his land, and sots forth to seek a mythical 

 fortune, let him read this book and reflect if there be not some- 

 thing still worth waiting for on the old farm. 



The Gamekeeper at Home : Sketches of Natural History 

 and Rural Life. Third edition. Boston: Roberts 

 Brothers. 1878. Cloth, $ 1.50. 

 We are glad to welcome another edition of this Jbook. The 

 English Gamekeeper is a prominent figure in rural life — a charac- 

 ter in his way. He has not spent his life iu the fields and hedges 

 without learning a vast deal of Nature's craft, and none so wise 

 as he when on his favorite theme of tho birds and animals under 

 his protection. Wo may naturally look for much woodland lore 

 and much quaint philosophy in these pages which profess to show 

 us just how the Gamekeeper lives and thinks and talks. The task 

 has been one of love, and it is most delightfully successful. Wa 

 have not for months come across a book which pleased us more, 

 nor oan we too strongly recommend our readers to secure for 

 themselves an afternoon of pleasant reading by its perusal. We 

 would wish that some one could enter as fully into the seorets of 

 tho animal life in our own woods and fields, and write of it as 

 simply and charmingly. 



A Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases. By B. J. 

 Kendall, M. D., Enosburgh Falls, Vt. Claremont Manu- 

 facturing Co., Claremont, N. H. Price 25 cents. 

 The book contains, in a compact shape, much useful informaj 



tion about the diseases of tho horse, with recipes for then' cure, 



and practical instruction for their treatment. It will prove a 



valuable manual for horsemen. 



—The " Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide" for 1879, published 

 by A. G. Spalding & Bros., of 118 Randolph st., Chicago, contains 

 a great deal of matter which is interesting and valuable to novice 

 and professional alike. It is the standard guide in base ball 

 matches. Mr. Spalding has done a very great service for the 

 game, its present development being largely due to his efforts 

 The firm of which he is a member have an extensive establishment 

 for tho salo of sporting goods in Chicago, where a full.'assortment 

 of archery goods will be found. 



— "Kriok's Guide to the Turf " is the recognized authority on 

 turf matters. It contains a great compilation of statistical infor- 

 mation regarding tho races of the whole country. Part I. contains 

 a record of races run in the United States and Canada in 1878, and 

 the earnings of all stallions and their progeny. Part II., which 

 will be ready about the middle of April, will contain the nomina- 

 tions for all the stakes. The price is SI. 50 ; published by H. (.. 

 Crickmore, Tlie World, 35 Park Row, New York. 



BOOKS DECEIVED. 



Zimmerman's History of Gebmant, Parts 33 and 34, New 

 York: Johnson and Miles. John Beacham, 23 Liberty street 

 sole agent. 



The Six Dam' Walking Match.— The international pe- 

 destrian contest for the Astley belt began atGilmore's Garden, 

 this city, last Monday morning at 1 ontestants 



are: Rowell, of England; O'Leary, Ennis and Harriiuan. 

 The record at the end of the first twenty-four hours was: 

 Rowell, 110 miles ; Harximan, 100 miles ; O'Leary, 06 miles ; 

 Ennis, 95 miles. At the end of the second twenty-four hours 

 the relative positions of the men were: Rowell, 107; Ltarri- 

 man, 186 ; Ennis, 173 : O'Leary, 164. At six o'clock last 

 (Wednesday; evening the score stood.- Rowell, 2S3 miles ; 

 Harriman, 2+5 miles ; Ennis, 333 miles; O'Leary, 215 miles. ' 



Columbia Athletics. — The annual winter games of the 

 Columbia College Boat Club will be held at Gilmore'a Garden 

 on the evenings of April 4 and 5. There will be the usual 

 contests open to amateurs. Entries should be addressed to J . 

 T. Goodwin, Columbia College, New York. 



— The Evening Telegram of this city, by its enterprise in re- 

 porting the International Walking Match at Gilmore's Garden 

 gained on its immense circulation over eight thousand the 

 first day, twelve thousand the second and fourteen 

 the third day, and it is fair, to presume that they will issue 

 100,000 on the last day of the walk. 



