Social Chess, a collection of short and brit Liant games with historical cid practical illustrations, By James Mason. Londo Horace Cox, Windsor House, Bream's Buildings, E. C.
Perhaps there is no game which occupies such a frequent and prominent phic in literanre as hess. Of bouks which deal w.ih the game, and the game alone, there is no end, but also. we find continual references to it in othe writers. The late John Ruskin loved it would have made a knowledge of it part of the education of every boy and cirl—Wendell Holmes referred to it frequently; Edgar Allan Pos, in one of his less gruesome tales, considered it in comparison with draughts as an exercise for the mind, One might multiply examples of this sort. As to the literature of chess proper, the game has been considered from almost every standpoint. Its history, with many and severe contentions as to origin, has been dealt with again and again its laws and the modifications or altera tions in them which have come with
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