Pawn or else hava obtained a very strong attack. It would lead ua too 

 far to glvi! the variations, or which tnera are manv, but we caunot ab- 

 stain trom giving ttia following one, where, If not all, moat of Black's 

 moves are forced, t p.; 



If— Bt tka P I 16— P-K B5 lli-Kt-Q Bl 



13— PKBt IS— KC-QB4 | 1T-P K U6 H-P tks P 



11- B IKS Kt 14— Q, P tks B I IS— B-R6 

 15— KttfcsB JB-Kttk, Kt, 



(t) And trie game was abaudoned as a draw. And If continued in 

 the same cautious way as up to this point, tt wonld certainly terminate 

 as audi. This game, though uninteresting, has been very well and 

 carefully fought on both sides, with a decided determination not to lose 

 It Is the Brat game of a style of play that we should have expected 

 would occur ofteucr in thlR contest. There is no fault to And on either 

 Bide. 



ANDERSSEN. 

 rpWO weeks ago. Prof. Adolph Ander?sen, the illustrious German 

 -*■ Chess Master and Chess King, died at Berlin, PtusBla, where he 

 held the position of teacher or mathematics in the principal Berlin 

 college. Ho was born at Breslau, Germany, on July 6, IBIS, and had 

 consequently closely approached his eixty-second year. Be has always 

 been regardml one of the famous chess geniuses, and as a brilliant and 

 profound player or unwavering allegiance to the Queen of chess. He 

 filled tor years a " Professor's Chair " at the University at Breslan, 

 Gormany, similar to that which he held at Bsrlln. No chess master's 

 record is more enviable lhan that of Anderssen. In his thirty-fourth 

 year he won the first prize at the grand London tournament of 1851, 

 in which Kiaunton, 8zen, ICieseritzky, Wyville and Williams were con- 

 testants, and In the same year won the cnp In the Loudon Chess Club 

 tournament, in which Lowenthal, Harrwtiz, Deacon Kllng and others 

 participated. Six years later we And him again In the fleld at Man- 

 cheater, In which tournament he alood second. In his forty tilth year 

 ne won a remarkable tournament victory in another grand International 

 tournament held at London, in which he defeated every player, losing 

 only one game to Bev. Owen. The players engaged in that tournament 

 were all strong players, including Paulsen, Blackbnrno, Lowcnthal, 

 Barnes, Dubois, Steinitz, MacDonnell, Owen and Mougredlen. In the 

 handicap tournament In the same year, in which MucKenzle won first 

 prize, he stood in the second place. In 1870 (his Ofty-thlrd year) he 

 won the flrst at the Baden International tournament. At Vienna in 

 1S73 he stood third, and at Paris in 187S he stood tlf i h on the list. Asa 

 match player Prof. Anderssen waa not very fortunate, losing matches 

 with Steinitz In 18C6, Zukertort in 1870, and Morpby in isr>8 by a score 

 of 2 won , T lost and 2 draws. 



CURSORY JOTTINGS, 

 —Mr. J. T. Palmer, formerly Chess Editor of the Amateur World, 

 now edits the Caess department In the Royal Exchange. 



—Mr. Jenkins, Chess Editor of the Glasgow Herald, recently played 



ten simultaneous games at the Glasgow Central Club, losing only one. 



—The West of Scotland Challenge Cnp is now the property of Mr. A. 



Hnnter, for having held it against all comers for the stipulated period 



of two yeara. / 



—The EnglUh Counties Che3s Association will probably hold Its 

 annual meeting this year at Oxford the last week In July. 



—Another handicap tourney has begun at the Cafe de la Kegence, 

 PArla. Fif y-one players have entered. The prizes are four in num- 

 ber, the llrat prize being a work of art presented by M. P, Thibaud, 

 yalued at 100 francs. The remaining prizes are valued at about 102 

 franca. 



—The probable contestants in the principal tourney of the flrst 

 German Chess Congress, to be held this year at Leipsic, are i L. Paul- 

 sen, W. Paulsen, Herren Schwartz, Eugllsch, Schallapp, Knorre, 

 Metger, Fritz, FiechSig, Elemann, Minkwllz, and Dra. Goring and 

 Schmidt, and other players from the Rhine. 



—The Florence (Italy) handicap tourney ended with Sig. Fossati 

 gaining the first prize, and Sig. Mecagni the second. 



—A tourney of thlity contestants, each having to play two games 

 with every other player, has just commenced at Borne, Italy. 



—The award in the Italian National Problem Tourney has been made 



SB follows: 1st, Sig. Teardotscb, of Trieste; Sd, Sig. Salvioll, of 



Venice; 3, Sig. Liberall, of Patraeao; ilti, count Guicckrdt, of Spezia. 



— Mephlsto, the famous automaton chess player, is now located at 



Msphlsto's Cheas Rooms, No. a Strand, London. A good move. 



—The Chess Player*' Chronicle problem tonrnty closed with forty- 

 four competitors. The problems will be published at (he rate of four 

 each month, two with large diagrams and two wilh small diagrams. 

 The solver's tourney Is further enriched by a contribution of &\ from 

 *" Zeus," one of the Chronicle's famous BOlvers. 



—At a meeting of the British Chess Problem Association, held at 

 the residence of Prof. Tombnson, F. R. S., it was decided to hold 

 a prooleni tourney, to close Sept. 30, 1B78, the rnlea of the last lourney 

 to govern the present. Hobt. Proctor, F. R. A. S., waB elected Vice- 

 President in conjunction with Mr. Andiews. Prof. Proctor gives an 

 extra prize of £i for the best protilem In the tourney. 



—Thompson, Chess Editor of the Derbyshire Advertieer, complains 

 that no American chess editor has to this day published his book of Dr. 

 Moore's prize problem. This is indeed too piteous an appeal to our 

 good nature, and we therefore succumb. Our readers will please to 

 note that Thompson aforesaid has cooked— In what manner we know 

 not, and also reluctantly inrorm our readers that the Derbyshire cook 

 bas aa yet. not intimated how he lutends to dioh it out— one of Dr. 

 Moore's prize problems. In the Adverlieer'e chess columu before us, 

 our attention is not alone called to this cook, but we are further treated 

 lo a reprinted reprint of Thompson's Problem No. 400, Miles' "Chess 

 Gem3." Keep It up, say we, it you believe that that cook and Thomp- 

 son's 400 are good things. Good things wi;l bear npetition, some 

 believe. Make it a good 400, Fred, and then, we pray you, rest content 

 at least a while. 



— The moveB made thus far In the Glasgow vs. Copenhagen corres- 

 pondence contests are : 



GAME NO. 1. 



White 



GlaSgOW. 

 1-P-Q4 

 S- P Q H4 

 .': -P.WK3 



4-B.t Q HI 



Black. V'hlte. Black. 



Copenhagen. Conenhagen. Glasgow. 



1— PK8 1 1— P K4 1-P K4 



2— P-K B4 *— P-K 84 2-P tks P 



3-Kt-K U9 S-B-QB* 3— P-<il 



4-S-KS I 4— B ik S Q P 4— Q-K H5 ch 



B— OaBtlOS 5-K-B 6— P K Kt4 



6-b"kbJ" |6-Kt-KB3 B-Q-KK4 



— Itaeems to be quite the fashion now for chess edltora to specially 

 BOtloe their exchanges. As we are invariably pressctf for space, our 

 .exchanges will, we trust, feel contented It we, in the future as in 

 aha patt, clip from and notice each as occasion oilers. 



— Mr. Relchelm has amended hla famous 121-move problem, and aB 

 .t now stands, la aoandlu 118 moves. This is the only lengthy mate 

 problem, either conditional or unconditional, that appears to be sound 

 It Is a profound study, and a proud triumph for the author. We hop* 

 to see It lithographed on a large scale. 

 E—Tbe London correspondent of the Glasgow BeraU »aya of Mr. 



tax 



Mason, the winner by a score of two to one in a recent match with 

 Blackburne for a small prize offered by Mr. Toualey: "I have been 

 struck with one thing, which may perhaps be the notion of an old fogy, 

 that the ohoaa world is growing old. When 1 flrst visited London 

 a good many years ago, there was a brilliant galaxy of yonoc players, 

 all fresh wtU blossoming honors. ThBreare, for tho most part, ttni 

 same players still ; but where are their successors ? I do not know. 

 Perhaps they are coming ; but It cannot yet be said that 



1 Superfluous lags the veteran on the Btage.' 

 It might be more correct to say that he does lag. Smerfluous en- 

 counters between the veterans there are not many. Each Ironclad 

 knows the number of his rival's guns, and Is not disposed to risk Mb 

 own aides without adequate cause. Of the ring here undoubtedly the 

 most promising is Mr. Mason, who, notwiths'anding hla bad sneoeas at 

 Paris, Is when In force a really formidable player. He is ' blue 

 moulded for want of bating,' and has been trying without ancceas to 

 get up a match with some first-class opponent." 



—The annual cintcat between the chess clubs of Cambridge and 

 okrord universities will begin April 3, Herr Steinitz acting as umpire. 

 Belden, of the Time*, guarantees a suitable trophy to Harvard and 

 Yale for a similar match, and fays: "When once begun a contest of 

 this kind would exoite as much interest as the boat races or ball 

 matches." 



—Over sixty problems were entered in the American Chens Journa 

 Problem Tourney. The award is now in Mr. Loyd's hands, and is only 

 withheld that Bo'vcrs m ty send In their time scores, and Indicate the 

 problem winners of the Ave prizes. We think Mohle's four 'er, " Flnls 

 PolintE." is entitled to the tlr»t prize according to ihe rules of the tour- 

 ney. The Joitraof Bhould be patronized by American chessers. Address 

 Dr. C. O. Moore, 6S Courtland St., New York. 



—The Hull Bellman announces a two-move problem tourney, offering 

 a copy of Taylo.'a "Chess Chips" as a orlze for the be9t one entered. 

 Thft conditions are according to the Buddenfisld College Magazine— "the 

 usual motto and sealed envelope arrangemont." Address Mr. J, Crake, 

 14 Walmsley at., Hull, England, on or before April 1. 



Hubliiiatiotip. 



THE APRIL MAGAZINES. 

 Appleton's JotJBBAL.— " A French Borgia," by J. D. Osborne 

 " Dr. Johnson, His Biographers and Critics," " The Dome of the 

 Continent," by Eugene H. Oowles; " Shakespeare and the Musical 

 GlaBseB," by Myron B. Benton ; " Godwin and Shelley," by Leslie 

 Stephen; "Picking up the Pieces : A Comedy;" "The Higher 

 Criticism ;" " Mr. Gladstone on Heroes ;" " Prince Bismark on 

 Swells, Snobs and CockneyB." The Editor's Table and Books of 

 the Day have their usual complements. 



LipriNcoTT's Magazine. — " A Visit to Ihe Shrines of Old Vir- 

 ginia," by David H. Strother ("Porte Crayon"); "English 

 Vignettes," by H. James, Jr.; " Women 'b Husbands ;" "Folk 

 Songa," by W. W. Young ; " Moliere : The Lire and the Legend," 

 by J. Brandon Matthews; "Trees in the City," by Edgar Fawcett; 

 "The Hoosiere at Home," byMaryDeane; "Through Winding 

 Ways," Chaps, xxviii-xxix., by Ellen W. Olney ; "Ancient Deco- 

 rative Stuffs," by H. M. Benson ; "Our Beaux," by Sarah Winter 

 Kellogg ; " My Village in the South," Part II., by Annie Poiter ; 

 "A Bitof OldSateuma," by William Elliot Griffs ; "A Lady's 

 Life in Bra2il." The Monthly Gossip and Literature of the Day 

 departments are always readable in Lippincotl's. 



Thk Eclectic Magazine.— " The Electric Light," by Prof. Tyn- 

 dall; "Edinburgh Society Seventy Years Ago;'' "Animals and 

 their Native Countries," by A. R.Wallace; "Mademoiselle De 

 Meraac," Chape, iii-v.; " A Broken String ;" " The Evil Eye ;" 

 "About JoBeph AddiBon ;" "The Earth's Place in Nature," by J. 

 Norman Lockyar ; " At the Convent Gate," by J. Austin Dobaon; 

 " Chapters on Socialism;" by John Stuart Mill ; "Ancient Egypt," 

 by Reginald Stuart Poole; "Mesmerism, Planchetto and Spiritu- 

 alism in China," by Herbert A. Giles ; "Robert Dick, the Baker 

 Naturalist," by William Chambers; "The Pope's New Encyclical;" 

 •' A Flower ;" A Sketch and Portrait of Rev. Dr. James H. Fair- 

 child, President of Oberlin College ; Literary Notices, Foreign 

 Literary Notes, Science and Art, Varietiea. 



Atlantic Monthly. — "Easter Hymns from Old Cloieters," by 

 Frank Foxcroft ; " Irene, the Missionary ;" " The Fool's Prayer;" 

 "Tho Indian Territory," by Theodora R. Jennesa ; "Now York 

 Theatres;" "The Saga of the Quern-Stones," by Alice W. Bro- 

 therton ; "The Pension Beaurepaa," by Henry Jamea, Jr.; "A 

 Day in Colorado," by Mary MapeB Dodge ; " New Lives of the Old 

 MaaterB," by Henry Van Brunt; "A Workingman'a Word on 

 Over- Production," py Frank Richards ; " Tho Return of thB 

 Native and Other Novels;" "Living in London," by Richard 

 Grant White; "The Burial of the Poet," by Henry W. Long- 

 fellow; "Richard Henry Dana," by Julius H. Ward; "The 

 Washington Monument and Mr. Slory'B Design," by An Architect; 

 The Contributors' Club, Recent Literature; Education, "The 

 New York Cathedral Again." 



The AMEhtCAN Natueamst.— " Animal Music : Its Nature and 

 Origin," by XeuOB Clark ; "The Artificial Moundts of the Island of 

 Marengo," by Orvillo A. Derby ; " Native Bitumeca and the Pitch 

 Lake of Trinidad," by W. O. Crosby; "Notes on an Extenaive 

 Depositor Obsidian in the Yellowstone National Park," by Wm. 

 H. Holmes ; Recent Literature, General Notes, Scientific News, 

 Proceedings of Scientific Societies, 



The PoptxAK fcctENCE Monthly.—" John Stuart Mill, " by Prof. 

 Alexander Bain, LL. D.; "The Intra-Mercurial Planets," by 

 Camille Flammarion ; " Dietetio Curiosities," by Felix L. Oswald ; 

 "The Monstrous in Art," by Samuel Kneeland ; "New Gui 

 and Its Inhabitants," by A. B. Wallace ; " Experiments with Liv- 

 ing Human Beings," by Geo. M. Beard; "Shall We Adopt the 

 Metic Syatem?;" " Payohometrio Faots," by Francis Galton ; 

 " Health and Recreation," by Dr. Benj, W. Riehardtou ; " Early 

 Traces of Man," by G. DeMortiUet; "Why Do We Eat our Dinner?'' 

 by Prof. Grant Allen ; " The Origin of Upland Lakes," by J. Clif- 

 ton Ward; " Sketeb of Sir Humphrey Davy ;'' Editor's Table, 

 Literary Notee,^Popular Miscellany, Notes. 



St. Nicholas.— "Little PurltauB," by Horace E. Seudder ; 

 " The Flame of a Street Lamp," by 'Frederic Palmer ; " A Song of 

 Easier," by Oelia Thaxter ; "The Dew in the Rose," by Mary A 

 Lathbury ; " Spoiling a Bombshell," by John Leweea ; " The Re- 

 ward of Virtue," by Q. V. Smith; "The Boy Astronomer," by 

 Harriet Preacott Spofford ; the Little Big Woman and the Big 

 Little Girl," by Mary Mapes Dodge; "Eyebrigbt," by Susan 



Cooiidga; " April Tablet;" " Pealing the Bounds, " by Thomaa 

 Hughaa . " A Boarding School," by E. Muller ; " ShoweT and 

 Flower," by Luoy Larcom ; " King Wichtel the First," from the 

 German of Julius Sturm ; "A Morning Call from a Panther,'' by 

 David Ker ; " An Old Bachelor— A Happy Couple," two pictures ; 

 " Little Housemaids in the New York Kitchen-Garden," by Olivo 

 Thome; "Milton," by Emma Burt; "A Jolly Fellowship," 

 Chaps, xi-xii., by Frank R. Stoohton ; "For "Very Little Folk," 

 by Francea T. Richardson; "Tick, tock! Tick, took!" by Wil- 

 helmina Grant ; Jack in the Pulpit, the Letter Box, The Riddle 

 Box. 



Scbikn-ek's.— " Actora and Actreaaea of New York," by J. 

 Bran der Matthews ; "Haworth's," by Frances Hodgson Bureau ; 

 " In a Snailery," by Ernest Ingereoll ; ",'Holy Russia," by Edna 

 Dean Proctor ; " The Stickeen River and Its Glaciers," by W. H. 

 Bell; "Anemone," by Elaine Goodale ; "Admonition,'' by 

 Auguata Moore; " Falconberg," by Hjalmar lijorih Boyesen ; 

 "The New Moon," by Andrew B. Saxton; "ATripto a Political 

 Convention:" "John EticsBon," by William C. Church ; "The 

 Tendenoy of Modern Thought aa seen in Romanism and Ration- 

 ality," by C. C. Tiffany; " Half-Witted Guttorm," by Kristojer 

 Janann ; Henry Bergl. and his Work," by C. C. Buel ; " The Por- 

 trait," by David S. Foster; 'Franlein," by Adeline Trafton ; 

 " The Token," by Richard Henry Stoddard ; " Tho Moasure of a 

 Man," by William Page; "A Canticle of Spring," by Mary E. 

 Bradley; Dapaitmtnts. 



— Mr.Wiliialln II. Hunt, Jr., who, while a resident of New- 

 Orleans, contributed occasional ssetchea to the Fobebt and 

 Stream, has, in connection with his brotlio.-, published a little 

 pamphlet descriptive of the rapid growth of Fargo, Dakota, and 

 the w mderful grain country in which that city ia situated. We 

 have become ao accustomed to tho rapid transformation sceneB of 

 tho WeBt, the sudden rise to-day of a city where yesterday saw 

 only the Bavage wigwam, that our capacity for wonderment haa 

 become sadly blunted, else the story told by the Messrs. Hunt 

 might well pass for a fairy tale. The first white aottler located in 

 1871 where Fargo now stands. Now the city publishes a very 

 creditable bueioees directory. The well-worn advice of Greeley 

 has not yet lost its meaning. Fargo has ouly nineteen lawyers. 

 There is always room for one more at the top. Send to Mr. W. 

 H. Hunt, Jr., Fargo, Dakota, for a copy of this pamphlet. 



—The Savannah Weekly ATe-asis assumirjg great proportions, 

 both of Bize and merit. It Is the weekly family paper of the 

 South. 



—Erich's Fashion Quarter!!/ contains a judicious selec- 

 tion of reading matter for the fair sex, and page after page of 

 shopping catalogues and illustrated doac;iptions of all the styles 

 and fashions. It is published at 287 Eighth avenue, New York. 



— The transactions of the American Institute, which were 

 formerly published by the State, but which, strange to Bay, have 

 not appeared for the past six yeara, are hereafter to appear in 

 Our Borne, a monthly journal published at 37 Paris Row, New 

 York. 



— The Library Table, which has attained such a success as 

 a fortnightly review of literature, now appears as a weekly. The 

 editors, Messrs. Bothwoll and Hinton, have secured the services 

 of a very large number of able contributors, and the book re- 

 views, literary, social and philoaophieal eaaays and discussions of 

 timely topics promme to be both bright and reliable. 



— Mr. F, H, Corbin, of Newington, Conn., who is a well- 

 known fancier, publishes a manual upon the breeding and care of 

 Plymouth Rocks. II oontains a history of the breed, full direc- 

 tions for their care, plana of poultry houaea, etc., etc., and will 

 prove very attractive to amateurs and experienced fauciers. Its 

 price is 75 cents. 



Saoohabine Memokibs. — Bottou, March 20. — Editor FortH 

 andUtream: The maple sugar season is now at hand, and 

 the farmers of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, having 

 been busy during the winter months hauling lumber and pre- 

 paring their year's supply of firewood, ihe boys' school closed, 

 the colts and steers all broken to harness and sled, will now 

 turn their attention lo making maple sugar. The season is 

 subject to local and climatic influences, and begins from March 

 10 to 20, and continues about four weeks. In some parts of 

 Wew England it is an important branch of farming, and im- 

 provements in the process and implements of manufacture 

 have kept pace wilh those in other departments of thefurm. 

 The old style of catching the sap from the maples in roughly 

 hewn troughs, and hanging a row of big kettles, surrounaed 

 by rocks, out in the foiest to evaporate it, has gradually given 

 place to snug houses wilh brick arches where the fireman can 

 quietly tend his improved "evaporator'' from morning till 

 night, while the boysgatberthe delicious eap from bright linor 

 wooden paila which hung on the trees. Well do I remember 

 the sugar making in New Hampshire in the days of my boy- 

 hood, when ihe long delightful winter, with its driving snow- 

 storms and big drills, the snow houses, the snotv men, and 

 the coasting, all began to melt away beneath the warming in- 

 fluence of the March sun. At last we feel assured of the 

 changing temperature sufficient for the purpose, and wo load 

 up the sleds with big kettles, pails, and tubs, and the gun (I 

 never could chop wood or make sugar without a gun), and 

 drive into the woods. Then after lapping the trees, gather- 

 ing and boiling the sap to a thick syrup, it was taken to the 

 faim-houBe ; there in the old kitchen fire-place to be clarified 

 and reduced to solid sugar. In fact this last operation was 

 not the least interesting, for although I had sampled the deli- 

 cate flavored sap in all its stages of development since it came 

 from the tree, now that it began to thicken aud take lhat 

 beautiful amber color, I was always anxious to tend it— with a 

 spoon, of course — aDd "help mother." Then came the 

 autiar parties, and maple wax ou snow is again established as 

 a New England institution. But the hand of time is relent- 

 less in its decrees, the years roll steadily over our heads and 

 we cannot always be boys, though the blessed faculty of 

 memory helps us to look back upon our early sports and 

 pleasures and live over again our happy boyhood days. 

 " 1 remember the Ureplace, with mouth hhjh and wide, 

 The old-fashioned oven luat ^toou oy its i»ide, 



Out of welch eaohTi<aoksg e-potidiDga and pies, 



'1 hat fairly bewildered aod dazjued my eyes. 

 And then, too, St. Nicholas, slyiy aud sLUI, 

 Came down every I hriatmao our .aim klnga to All ; 

 But ihe siveiitest of meniurits I've laic up m store, 

 la the mother that trod on thai old kitchen door, 1 ' 



M. 



