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The Jewish Psalter.
From the French by Albeet Reville.
Also from the same point of view, we must
mention the noble close of the sixty-eighth
Fsalm, in which the Psalmist utters his grati
tude at the earth fertilized by the rains of Hea
ven. ‘Thou crowneth the year with thy good
ness,’ etc. Every one is familiar with the first
words, so often quoted, of the nineteenth Psalm:
‘The heavens declare the glory of God.’ This
is again a beautiful religious interpretation of
nature, a genuine entique. It reminds us of
that mysterious Divine power which breathes
throughout creation, and at the same time it
gives us a curious index of the ancient Israel-
itish opinion concerning the sun and his diur
nal revolution. It seems to have been conceiv
ed that the sun had, below the horizon, a palace,
or rather—and this is a more ancient idea—a
•tent, where he reposes after the fatigues of the
day. Why does the singer stop so abrubtly
after this picture of the rising sun ? Simply
because his momentary inspiration goes no far
ther. Among the great spectacles of the visi
ble world, that of the ‘sun going out' (the usu
al expression in Hebrew, in place of ‘rising’)
it appears to him to surpass’ all others. It is,
in his eyes, the chapter par excellence in natural
theology. He tells it; and let no one ask more
of him, under pretext that a poem should be
better rounded to its close; he would find that
a most unnecessary requisition.
Again, there are psalms, like the hundred
and sixteenth, which suppose the action divid
ed among groups of singers, and which remote
ly resemble our oratorio. Others, like the
twenty-ninth, imitate the tumult of a great
storm. Elsewhere (Psalm civ.) we find a poetic
amplification of the story of creation, as record
ed in Genesis. In Psalm xviii., a song of grati
tude on occasion of a brilliant victory, the poet
still breathes forth the fury of the conflict.
‘Those who hate me,’he cries, ‘I will destroy;
I will beat them small like the dust which the
wind carrieth away; I will sweep them out as
the mire in the streets.’ One may say in gene
ral, that the rarest thing in all the Psalms is
pity for an adversary, whether vanquished or
not. It is impossible to hate more vigoriously
than do these pious singers. It is in this, above j
all, that the Psalms betray their Jewish origin,
and that they have furnished texts and pretexts
to most deplorable excesses of Christian intole
rance. The only thing to do is to destroy the
enemy, to aDihilate him in the name of the
Lord; the only pleasure is to render back to
him tenfold the injury he has done. The beau
tiful elegy formed by Psalm cxxxvii., in which
the Psalmist depicts, with most pathetic power,
the children of Israel bewailing their lost coun
try, having no longer heart to sing, and hang
ing their harps upon the willow—this touching
expression of the tenderest patriotic feeling,
ends with an atrocious imprecation of revenge:
‘0! Babylon, destroyer, hail to him who shall
take thy little children and dash them against
the stones.’
We must remember, however, that if passag
es like these are a painful surprise to readers,
who are expecting to find in these Jewish com
positions an anticipation of the Gospel morali
ty, it is the adoption ot the Psalms, as their
customary book of sacred songs, by the Chris
tian Churches of all ages, and to the innumer
able contradictions consequent therefrom, that
we must chiefly ascribe the blame. The Psalm
ist sing what they have in their hearts, but
with the idea the whole nation sings with them.
National individuality is even more absolute
than personal individuality. Now the enemy
of the nation, and God’s enemy, are one and the
same. The oppression of the chosen race was
not alone an iniquity, it was a sacrelege. The
excuse for. this people is that forced to compare
their religious faith with that of their idolatrous
neighbors, they could not fail to be proudly
aware of their own superiority.
At the period when most of the Psalms were
composed, this sentiment must have been es
pecially powerful. It had not always been so
highly developed. There had been a time
when the children of Israel adored their God
Jehovah in preference to any other, because he
was the national divinity, the natural protector,
the invincible defender of the people he had
chosen; but this exclusive worship rendered to
a jealous God, did not at all annul belief in the
existence of other divinities, powerful also, and
to be feared. If it pleased this reticent divini
ty who would not show himself, and whom no
human eye had ever been able to discover in
the sky—if it pleased him to be adored without
being represented under visible forms, _ there
was nothing to prevent any man’s believing
that other gods, otherwise disposed, consent
ed to animate their images, either dwelling
within them, or endowing them with magical
virtues. Idolatry always vivifies, in a degree,
if not wholy, the ikon or the statue. Thus the
early Israelite was timid, not audacious, in
presence of the symbols of foreign faiths.
When, on the other hand, he had gained in
knowledge of the world, in reason, in reflection,
in faculty of analysis; when his monotheism had
come to understand itself thoroughly; when,
having examined closely the blocks carven by
the workman’s hand, he had satisfied himself
that there was nothing there but stone, or metal,
or wood, can one conceive the contempt which
sprang up in his soul at the sight of men so
foolish as to speak with respect and fear of that
which could neither hear nor see them t Observe
even in our own days the disdainful smile of
the Protestant peasant before certain exuberant
displays of Catholic piety—a smile sometimes
noticed, and with formerly cost him dear. Every
nation is ready to believe itself the first in the
world, but no people ever had better excuse for
this than had the Jews. What consciousness of
intellectual and religious superiority in the
Psalmist’s prolonged raillery concerning idola
ters (Ps. cxv.): ‘Their gods are of silver and
gold,’ ect! . , . . .
Yet this spiritual superiority was far from find
ing its sanction in temporal facts. At every
moment it was the idolater, the stupid idolater,
who imposed upon the worshipper of the living
God his intolerable yoke. Nothing exasperates
the animosity of the oppressed against the op
pressor so much as the consciousness, whether
well or ill-founded, of being his mental supe
rior. How little Antiochus understood the peo
ple he had to deal with when he imagined that
an image of the Olympian Jupiter would be an
imposing object to the recalcitrant Jews, snd
might aid in reconciling them to Greek civiliza
tion. It was, on the contrary, to represent to
them that civilization in the most ridiculous
light; and, among a people habituated as they
were, to take religious matters most seriously,
the Jupiter of Phidias himself would have ob
tained no other success than that of scandal.
Most of the Psalms reflect this meancholy strife
of the national conscience and the actual situa
tion. M. Reuss shows that wherever we are
tempted to find the expression of a personal,
isolated injury, it is usually the lamentation of
a people poured forth in individual form. The
persecuted servant of the Lord, who, in a mul
titude of Psalms laments, revolts, invokes divine
vengeance on his oppressors, reviles and curses
them, is not a solitary man but the personified
nation speaking.
On the other hand we must admit that never
did human language better express the inner
religious sentiments of submission, of confi
dence, of repentance, of indestructible hope.
In these utterances of Jewish poetry there are
1 notes of infinite sweetness, of the most exquisite
2 delicacy. It is these inspirations of an ardent
and genuine piety that have made the Psalms
the chosen reading of wounded souls. Many a
saddened heart has drawn thence ineffable con
solations. The oppressed, the persecuted, the
afflicted of every age, have been able to appro
priate these lamentations full of faith in the
eternal justice. The timorous conscience has
found accents of penitence and assurances of
pardon that no other literature could ever fur
nish. The weak points in these songs of Israel
and the strange illusions that have prevailed
and still prevail in respect to the doctrinal
teaching they contain, cannot deprive them of
this merit, which alone explains their long-con
tinued popularity.
In our age of positive criticism, we find it
hard to understand the facility with which
minds of the first rank were able, in past ages,
to meditate long and deeply upon texts whose
evident meaning was brutally shocking to their
dearest beliefs. How was it possible, for in
stance, that a Pascal, a Bossuet, a Fenelon,
should take delight in the assiduous reading of
the Psalms, without ever perceiving that, on a
capital point of Christian doctrine, namely :
the faith in a future life of rewards and punish
ments, they were not merely silent, but absolute
ly ignorant? There can be no question that
the Psalms were written at a period when this
faith was as yet shapeless, and no man expected
after death a resurrection or a passage into a
better world. The old Hebrew notion of Sheol,
the under-world, a world of sleep alike to righte
ous and wicked, rules without exception through
out the book. Upon it are based many argu
ment. The Psalmists pray for deliverance, and
urge upon the Lord to remember that, once
dead, a man can no longer praise Jehovah, as in
Ps. lxxxviii., ‘What profit wouldst thou have in
shedding my blood?’ &3. At every moment the
great problem of undeserved suffering, of the tri
umph of the wicked,forces itself upon the Psalm
ist as upon Job in his rigor,and the solution nev
er appears that a future life shall rectify the seem
ing injustice. Consoling hope is always bound
ed by the horizon of time, and deals only with
the national future, promising a period of glory
and happiness on earth which shall compensate
some day for the humiliations of the present
hour. Likewise impartial criticism is forced
to relinquish the illusion cherished so long by
Christian writers of predictions in the Psalms ot
the coming of Jesus and the events of his life,
and must own that the Jewish rabbis were quiet
right in contesting the arguments of the early
Fathers upon this subject, and ridiculing the
wildly arbitrary inferences the latter allowed
themselves to draw from detached passages.
On the other hand the orthodox Jew must
himself have frequently been embarrassed by
the genuinely spiritual views of certain psalms
in reference to the legal ritual. Here, they are
unquestionable preludes to the New Testament.
It is well known that the Jews, after the cap
tivity, attributed the greatest importance to a
minute observance of the ceremonial law, and,
among the ordinances attributed to Moses,
those which concerned sacrifices were of the
very first rank. It was by sacrifices that the
Isrealite set himself right with the Deity, that
he sought to obtain Divine favor, and to avert
the penalty of his sins. Thus, as was to be ex
pected, it often happened that the guilty made
light of his transgression, sheltering himself
behind the opus operatum, the material act of
the offering. In repeated instances we find the
Psalmists disputing the religious value of this
form of devotion ; it had to them something ig
noble, something contrary to the pure notion of
the Divine perfections. To imagine that a
man can with flesh of bulls or blood of goats
change to his own advantage the purposes of
Jehovah, is to bring down the Almighty nearly
to a level with himself.
We must not however imagine that the same
spirituality reigns throughout the entire collec
tion. In other Psalms.we find religious notions
of the merest materialism. The Jehovah of
Psalm xviii., who flies through space mounted
upon the storm -eland, of which, by a curious
metamorphosis, Christian interpreters have
made the gentle and angelic cherub—this God,
with smoking nostrils, whose mouth breathes
out fire, and who descends from heaven upon a
black cloud, is this the omnipresent, Infinite
Being of the beautiful one hundred and thirty-
ninth Psalm, or is it an idol forged by igno
rance and fear? Nothing shows better than do
citations of this kind, the progressive nature of
that religion of Israel which has escaped the law
of evolution no more than has other religions,
and was raised only by succsssive stages to the
height where Christianity seized upon it, to
spread its essential idea over the entire world.
We must then, in order to admire rightly,
make a fair statement of the beauties and the
faults of this sacred poetry. In the light of
criticism, the Psalter regains in color, in gen
uineness and freshness, what it may have lost
in authority as a series of texts fallen from
Heaven. Nothing on earth is exempt from the
inevitable condition of imperfection ; but we
may fearlessly affirm that whatever during the
centuries has attracted to itself the veneration
and the love of humanity, has always owed that
distinction to its merit, either evident or con
cealed ; and the Hebrew Psalms furnish one of
the most striking illustrations of that truth. It
would be impossible for the human soul long
to feed itself upon a mere illusion.
RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT.
Non-Sectarian—All Churches and all
Creeds.
, Teacher’s Meeting in Sunday-schools.
Difficulties appertaining to the holding of the
children’s attendance and attention in Sunday-
school, frequently confront the teacher. When
looked into closely they will be found to origi
nate either in the meagreness of matter or dis
agreeableness of manner in the teacher.
Teacher’s meetings in which to study the les
sons and to discuss methods are therefore of the
first importance. In order to make convincing
and luminous this point, it is not necessary to
rpufeft the quotation, “in a multitude of council
there is safety.”
Let the meetings be conducted about as fol
lows: At the appointed time and place let all the
teachers, (and any other members of the school
if they desire to do so) come together. Let the
pastor of the church or some selected leader
conduct the exercises. Let the meeting be open
ed with singing, reading of the lesson and
prayer. Let the teachers then be arranged in
order. Let teacher B. have Dr. Vincent’s Sun
day-school Journal; teacher A. Dr. Cunning
ham’s Sunday-school Magazine; teacher C. Dr.
Hazard’s National Sunday-school Teacher, and
bo on through the whole roll of teachers; let
each one have a different magazine, or othei
helD from any other teacher.
Now let the teaoher read the first verse ot the
lesson and beginning with teacher A, go round
the room asking each to read comments of his
particular lesson help on the subject. By
mins the subject of the lesson is acquired by
the teaoher in all its various lights and more
correct and Catholio views are accomplished.
Knot a suggestion worthy an experiment?
Wearegoing to try it in our school, and we are
hoping muoh from it.
The General Conference.
The General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South convened in this city
on last Wednesday. It is the legislative body of
that Church. If, when the committee on Episco
pacy have reported it is foupd that the demands
of the work need it, one or more bishops will be
elected and ordained. It is not true, however,
that there are any vacancies in the college of
bishops. The Episcopacy of this church is gener
al and diocesan. If therefore it was found that
the present number of bishops was equal
to the work to be done there would be
no new ones added to the College of gen
eral superintends. They are elected for life
and continue in office until death, unless de
posed for some crime or misdemeanor. This,
we believe, has never occurred, except when
the Northern delegates attempted to suspend
the Episcopal functions of Bishop J. O. Andrew
on account of his owning slaves, .which proper
ty he ’ acquired by marriage and prac
tically held only in trust. The^effort resulted
in the rupture between the Northern and
Southern wings ©f the church in the Uni
ted States, and engendered a spirit of unfrater
nity which is now rapidly passing away. The
magnitude of their General Conference and
the diversity of their necessities, prevent its
ever being practicable for them to becoma unil-
ted, but if each will confine its efforts to its
own territory and cultivate a spirit of Christian
charity, there is no reason why they shouid
not be fraternal and continue to do the work of
evangelists making full proof of their minis
try. Efforts are being made to bring about
this result, and indeed ‘it is a consummation
devoutly to be wished.’
The Baptist Convention of Georgia held its
annual session in LaGrange during the past
week. It was preceded by an interesting Sun
day-school Institute, which was attended by
Rev. Geo. A. Peltz, of New York, Prof. W. F.
Sherman and Mr. C. B. Stout, of New Jersey,
and Prof. Van Lennep, of Turkey.
The Atlanta Presbytery is now in session at
Lawrenceville. It has under consideration the
Block case which made such a sensation in the
Central Presbyterian church in this city, of
which Rev. J. T. Leftwich, D.D., is pastor,
The late Mrs. Sophia E. Stimpson gave, by
her will, to the Central Presbyterian church of
Baltimore. Mi., of which Dr. J. T. Smith is
pastor, one-half of a city lot, two ground rents,
five thousand dollars in other landed property
and the proceeds of sales of an ice-pitcherpat-
ented by the late husband of the testatrix.
The Free Churrh of Scotland has just now a
larger number of theological students than for
several years. It is stated that during this ses
sion the number of regular students preparing
for the ministry of the Church at the colleges in
Edinburgh, Glasgow and AbercBsen Is 196, of
whom fifty-seven are first year<*[dents,
Mr. Charles E. Robert, formeSlv a Nashville
journalist, but of late years conlVcted with the
Louisville press, has been acc^I d as a candi
date for holy orders in the PrcfyKpnt Episcopal
Church by the Bishop of KGnm\ky, and will
leave shortly for a course of traMtjig at some
theological school. fLo
The copy of the Bible which 4%c*tin Luther
used daily, and the leaves of wh.M> are covered
with annotations made with his'§f'xi hand, is
now in Brandenburg Museum, which gave for
it about $450. The Bible was printed in Basle,
in 1509, is bound in leather, and is in good
preservation.
Rev. H. F. Buckner preached lately in Tus-
kegee, Indian Territory. He baptized three,
restored one and married two. The church is
building a cedar meeting .house, the members
cultivating eight acres of cotton in oonoert to
help pay for it.
It is reported that Mrs. Tyler, widow of John
Tyler, who became President of the United
States in 1840, was confirmed by Archbishop
Gibbons, at the Convent of the Visitation,
Georgetown, D. C., a few days agg.
Rev. Mr. Rankin, of the American Bible So
ciety, proposes that if every man in.Texas '.who
carries a pistol or other deadly weapon will pay
them aside—he will replace the* with Bibles
free of charge. He guarantees tost the change
will put an end to the fearful crime of murder.
A Chinese church is to be organized at Oak
land, Cal., composed in part of members from
Dr. Eell’s church and the mission ander care of
Rev. J. M. Condit. This is the second church
in California, all the members of which are
Chinese.
On Sunday, February 17, 1878, Bishop Wiley
of the M. E. Church, ordained as deacon, Rev.
Yoitsu Honda, a Japanese local preacher—the
first of that people who has received ordination
from that denomination.
The amount thus far collected in England for
the monument to Robert Raises is £924 4s. Id.
Three or more artists are to be asked to pre
pare designs for the statute.
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NEW PUZZLES. i
42. Why is the boy that disturbs a hive like a true
Christian ?
43. What is that which has eyes and sees not, ears and
hears not. nose and smells not, yet is often regarded as
the beau-ideal ot a human being ?
44. I’m a heavy drag—few things more slow.
Cut off my head, and give me a bow,
And swiftly through the air I go.
45. A pair of little quadrupeds.
Transpose them, and you’ll find
The lords of ocean, or the aids
For disciplining mind;
Or that which cheers the midnight hour,
Or gilds the flagstaff high;
Now test your transposition power,
And for the answer try.
46. When is a chair like a rich lady’s dress ?
47. One p, one i, four a’s, two r’s, two s'a, two i’s—
what do they make, and who has made a .fortune by them?
48. Here is a small puzzle: A farmer has 9-pigs and
wishes to put them in four pens so that an odd number
may be in each pen. How can he do it ?
D. 0. Hudson,
Mt. Parthenon P. O., Newton co.. Ark.
Answers to Puzzles.
G. W. McCarty, of Atlanta, sends correct answers to
puzzles 27 and 28:
27. To Alderman Gobble, with SIS ducks.
28. Musk-melon.
M. Davis, of Atlanta, sends the following answers: No.
19 —A11 that come after T are too late for supper. (Cor
rect.)
No. 15—Step-son. (Not correct.) Daughter.
Lizzie D. Lewis, Clarksville, Tenn., says: The answer
to prize puzzle is “Eye.” Do you wish any Rebuses for
your Puzzle Parlor ? 1 have made a good many that are
thought very good. (Correct—send along the Rebuses.)
Mrs. M. F. B., Richmond, Va., says: In your issue of
April 27, 1878, you ask: Puzzle-No. 27—What is that
which makes you catch cold, cures the cold, and pays the
doctor’s bill? Is it not a “Draught?” (Correct.)
J. B. Garrett, of Selma, Ala., says: In looking over a
Sunny South of tbia week I find soma puzzles, aud as I
suppose the invitation to solve them is extended to all,
I venture to solve three of them. If I am not mistaken
the answer to No. 32 i3—Frankfort on the main; 34. Is
Ribband; 38. When translated, should read: A living sin
ner’s transgression procured damnation; a dying Re
deemer’s passion purchased salvation, or vice versa.
Am I correct in any of them ? (AH correct.)
Mary E. Alexander, of Chulahoma, Tenn., says: I send
the solution to some of yonr puzzles. Will bagiu with
Prize Puzzle No. 20 of tha last paper. This is tha first '■
mail since I received the paper:
The answer is Eye,
1. Add asylable to short—it will be shorter.
2. Sbakspeare.
3. Time.
4. Wallace.
5. They are both sweet. (Wrong. Because they are
often toasted.)
7. The letter N. (You mean M, which is correct.)
8. The whale was -18 feet long.
9. He walks 10.100 feet.
G. Your umbrella. (Wrong; your name.)
11. Hour-glass. (Wrong; Pen-man-ship.)
12. The man’s name was NOT.
13. One of its n’s.
15. Siep-sou—(daughter.)
16. Beu-hadad-(Ben ! Hal dad.)
17. Because it is always Dublin—(Doubling.)
18. The air—(water.)
19. 1 hose after T (tea.)
Prize enigma No, 1 may be “Linnet,” but I cannot
make t out exactly.
The next prize enigma is J. B. Burwell, Greenville, Va.
First Transposition is—“Faint heart never won fair
lady.”
3d—Diamond Puzzle T
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D. C. and C. C. Hudson, and J. C. Blackwood, of Mt.
Parthenon, Ark., say: We send you the answers to some
of the puzzles found in your nice paper of March 16th. If
they are wrung, please send the right answers:
G. What belongs to yourself yet is used by others more
than yourself. Ans. Your name (Correct.)
8. The head of a whale is G feet long, his tail is as long
as his head and half his body, and his bodv is half his
whole length. How long is the whale? Ans.—48 feet.
(Correct.)
9 A hundred stones are placed in a straight line, a
yard distant from each other, how many yards must a
person walk who undertakes to pick them up and place
them in a basket stationed one yard from the first stone?
Ans.—9,900 yards. (10,100 yards we believe is correct.)
3. What is the longest, yet the shortest thing in the
world; the swiftest aud yet the slowest; the most divis
ible, and the most extended; the least valued, and the
most regretted, without which nothing can be done;
which devours everything, however small, aud yet gives
life and spirits to every object, however great? Ans.—
Air. (Wrong. Time is the correct answer.)
Mrs. J. A. Dibrell, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., says: Yonr
paper is a new but welcome visitor at our home. You
will perceive that I at once begin to take an interest in
it by attacking the conundrums in the number for APrU>
27tb, in the following style, viz.:
32. Warning—(Warring.) (Prescription and proscrip
tion are the words intended.)
33. Frankfort-on-the-main.
34. Ribband.
36 Patch-work.
3?! Being a Doctor’s wife, you would suioly nst 6xpect
me to give any otheranswer than “Draft.’* A physician,
by reasoa of his calling, is necessarily much e xposed to
some kinds of drafts; he, without mercy, administers
draughts to bis patients, but 1 doubt if he receives
drafts in payment for his services as freely as be gi-’es
them to others. (Correct.)
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PROBLEM NO. 51.
By "Problem D. Solver.”
SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO 62.
1 PKB4 Any 13. Kt dismate.
2. Q Q B 3+ KXQ I
PROBLEM NO. 54.
"Free Press Tourney.”
. "May be lost in sight.”
WHITE.
White to play and mate in two moves.
CHESS IN NE W YORK.
Second game between Messrs. Mason Penzenger and
DeVaux (White) against Messrs. Mackenzie, Delmar
Teed.
(Vienna Opening.)
White.
1. PK4
2. Kt Q B 3
3. P K B 4 (a)
4. Kt K B 3
5. B Q B 4
6. P Q 3
7. QK2
8. B K3
9. BxKt
10 PKR3
11. QXB
12. PXP
13. Kt K 2 (d)
14. KtXB
15. P QB 3
16. B Kt 3
17. Cas (Q R)
18. P K Kt 4
19. P Kt 5
20. P K R 4
21. P R 5
22. K RKt(f)
23. BB2
Black.
PK4
B B 4
P Q3
Kt K B 3
Kt Q B3
P Q R 3 (b)
B K Kt 5
Kt Q 6 (c)
BXB
Q BXKt
PQ B3
PXP
P Kt 4
QXKt
IV
PQ B 4
Castles (e)
Kt K
Kt Q B 2
Kt K 3
KR
PQ Kt 5
White.
24. PKR6
25. PXP+
26. PXP
27. P Q 4 (i)
28. Q R K B
29. QXKt (K)
30. RXQ
31. R K Kt 2
32. R Q2
33. RXR
34. KXP
35. K Kt 3
FQR3
37. PXP
38. K Q B 4
39. K Q 4
40. P Q R 4
41. R B 3
42. K K 3
43. B K B
44. K B 3
45. R KR
46. P R 2
Black.
Kt B 5 (h)
PXP
PXP
PXP
PQ 6
mt
K RK
BXB+
PXB
RK4
PQB5
PXP
RXKKtP
P R 4
K Kt 3
P KBS
PKB5
R Kt 5
PR6
K Kt 4
KR5
R Kt 6-f-
And White resigns.
(a) Kt K B 3 is a safer, and perhaps a stronger move;
but as, in all probability it would have brought about a
slow and stereotyped sort of a game, though more ven
turesome; P K B 4 was preferred.
(b) To preserve the King’s Bishop, which white threat
ens to get rid of by Kt Q B 4, ett.; Kt K Kt 5 would not
advance their prospects, as White could reply with Q K
2. followed by King to Queen sqr, in case the Bishop
(c) We should have hesitated between this and PXP;
indeed, the latter looks far more—the most troublesome
of the two.
(d) Black cannot take the exposed Pawn without ren
dering more than an equivalent.
(e) At this stage the contest appears to be slightly In
favor of White. • *
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