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116 LITERARY. WILLIAM W. MANN, Editor. The Southern Field and Fireside 18 PUBLISHED EVKBT SATURDAY. TERMS—S2.OO a year, invariably in advance. All Postmasters are authorized agents. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8, ISM. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. We do not send receipts by mail for subscriptions re mitted. The receipt of The Souther* Field and Fireside, after the money is remitted, will be eYi dence to each subscriber that his money has been re ceived and his name duly entered on the mail booh. BACK NUHBERB. Persons subscribing to the Field and Fireside can be supplied with all the back numbers. — TERMS TO NEWS-DEALERS. This paper is mailed to news-dealers at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per one hundred copies. >si TERMS OF ADVERTISING. For each insertion of ten lines or less, one dollar; and for over ten lines, at the rate of ten cents per line. —— TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS. We have received during the week the follow ing articles in prose and poetry: The Fatal Statuette, by Emmie Emerald; A Leyer “From Mississippi,” by Rambler; I’d be with Thee, by R. G.; Thy Dreams be Sweet, by Maurice ; Coming, by M. C.'B.: The Old Oak Tree, by J. M. H.; The Invalid’s Dream of Health, by Merlin* ; The Sister's Influence, or The Brother Re. claimed, by A. C. B. 7b B. 11. IF., who has kindly communicated the article “ I, too, am a Southron,” we must say that after considerable reflection we concluded not to publish the manuscript in question. Sev eral similar communications have already been returned to their authors; with tlio understand ing that, except under particular circumstances, which do not exist in the present case, such communications would in future be declined.— We agree with our correspondent that the article declined is a very creditable production, but we think that the Field and Fireside is hardly its fit depository. We hold tho MS. at the disposi tion of B. 11. W. To 11 Florence Lyle.'' —Have you sent to us your real name, with the communication for warded a fortnight since ? 7b Periplus. —Won’t you favor us with the pe rusal of the poem of G. D. P. of which you speak? We had received, from another friend, a note upon the same subject, and of the same tenor with yours, before yours reached us; and we had already written for an explanation. We recollect having read, years ago, the poem of G. D. P.; but it is recalled, after all our efforts, very indistiuctly,—and wo would like the op portunity of comparing, as in justice should be done, before we definitively condemn and punish. —We accept, and will publish as soon as place can be conveniently found for them, the following articles; • Stray Leaves from the Diary of a Couutry Lady, by M. M. v Bells, by A. Z. The Water-Sprite, by F. Lines to a Young Poetess, by A. R. B. Napoleon’s Prophecy, by W. G. S. —We respectfully decline: A Paradox, Love and Glory. A Paradox, Quiet. An Anecdote about Ducks. Lines to “Psuche.” Lines addressed “To Woman.” The Difference of Love. My Childhood’s Happy Home. Mattie Neel. Idolatry in California.— We thank the Reverend gentleman whose name is appended to the following letter, for correcting the erroneous statement of an item in our “News Summary,” in Field and Fireside, page 101. Walterborougii, S. C., ) 30th Aug., 1859. J Dear Sir: I observe in the Southern Field and Fireside, (of the 20th inst.,) the following: “The only efforts in California to christianize • the Chinese, are by the Methodists, at Sacra mento.” The'exchange from which the above has been taken, has certainly fallen into an error. Jf there is but one denomination making efforts to christianize the Chinese in California, it is the Baptist denomination; and if tho Methodist de nomination are engaged in the work, then there is a mistake, in the remark, that they stand alone. Rev. J. L. Shuck has been engaged in this work for a number of years. He once labored in China He has been assisted bv one or more Chinese preachers. He is a minister of the Bap tist denomination, and resides at Sacramento. An Episcopal minister, Rev. E. W. Tyle, also labored there for a short time, but has now re turned to China, his former field of operations. A Presbyterian missionary from China, Rev. Wm. Speer, labored there for a few years, but is now living in another part of the United States. I am unable to say whether Episcopal and Presbyterian missions are still in existence, in California. Very respectfully yours, B. W. WIIILDEN, Returned Missionary from China. ——— Valuk of Newspapers. -Many people like news papers, but few preserve them; yet the most in teresting reading imaginable is a file of old news papers. It brings up the very age. with all its bustle and every-day affairs, and marks its genius and its spirit more than the most labored de scription of the historian. Who can take up a paper half a century back, without the thought that almost every name there printed is now cut upon a tombstone at the head of an epitaph ? —>«♦ COP FRIGHTS. —By an act of Congress the duty of attending to the operation of tho copyright law 1 laving been transferred to the Department of the Interior, the Secretary has made that duty a branch of the business of the Patent Office. * VXB SOTCKBEB BXKLB 111 tS&SSXDK. FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT. Paris, 11th Aug., 1859. The plenipotentiaries of France, Austria, and Sardinia, are now holding their session at Zurich. The sessions are secret, and wil lbe kept secret to their close. The political chronicle will, con sequently, be nearly bare of facts as to their say ings and doings. Os conjectures and guesses, and prophecies, however, we shall have more than enough—indeed have already. Two of them only are worth mention. One is, that the Zurich plenipos will limit their action to the ne gotiation of a tripartite treaty and of distinct treaties between their principals, the late bel ligerent powers. The political reorganization of Italy, if it lias any stability, must be the subject of debate for a European Congress. The two Em perors may labor at the preparation of a new Italian system, but it must be sanctioned by the other great powers. But as they would hardly find it consistent with their dignity to appear in Congress for the mere purpose of voting aye I to the preamble and articles of Louis Napoleon’s Italian Bill, there must be debate. My own be lief, if not altogether so confident as it has been, still strongly inclines towards the Congress.— The greatest difficulty in the way is the Roman part of the Italian question. Not only must the Pontifical government deny the competence of tho throe non-catholic powers, England, Russia, and Prussia, to authoritatively discuss its affairs and impose reforms, but these powers them selves may have notions—we will not say of del icacy, but—of political convenance in that res pect. And this state of tho case suggests my second conjecture, viz: that the European Con gress will not be, but that an Italian Congress will follow at no very distant date the definitive conclusion of peace at Zurich. If Austria and France can remain friends, that is, if the two Emperors can work together upon Italy, such a result is not impossible; and confederated Italy may be constructed and set a going, as the war and peace were made, by those two gentlemen, without consulting their neighbors. This course would doubly suit the taste of Austria, who has always been opposed to a Con gress, and who would particularly relish keeping out Prussia and England from any share in 6ne. She i 3 still vexed with those two powers, espe cially with Prussia, and her vexation is not di minished by learning that her recent warm ex pression of it was “quite uncalled for,” and really needs, what Prussia has requested, an apology. I refer to the famous project of mediation. The history of it being now fully known, and quite curious withal, and not long, is worth repeating. To begin, as Horace advises, in the middle.— The advice of Horace, I am aware, was addressed to poets rather than historians, but this history is wonderfully rich in fiction, which is a poetic element. And it happens to be most abundant in fiction just in the middle, where, as I just said, I will begin. Franz Jo seph gave to his “peoples” and the world as his reason for accepting the terms of peace offered by tho Emperor of tho French at Villafranca. that they were more favorable than those which the neutral powers had a plan of propos ing ; and then reflected lastly on the miserable backing he had received from those who should have been his friends. The allusion and the bitterness of it were especially intended for Prussia. But lost they should not be strong enough, he directed his Foreign minister, Count Richberg, to do them over again in a formal cir cular to his agents at the German courts. And the Count, cutting an uncommon sharp nib to his pen, and dipping into ink uncommonly strong of nutgall, did accordingly and circularly accuse Prussia of being about to urge its unfavorable terms of vindication, and to show the German courts and the world how unfriendly they were, he annexed a copy of them to his circular. They were also published about the same time in the newspapers. Prussia directly come out with a denial, not only of the authorships, but of all knowledge of the plan previous to its communi cation by Count Richberg, and the public prints, and has since civilly requested Austria to apolo gize for the unfounded charge and the impolite manner of it. Austria, with customary dilatoriness and obstinacy, does not yet apologize. Russia denies point Blank having anything to do with the said plan. England neither originated nor recommended it. In the name of the Father of Lies and all the Diplomats of tho family, who did originate it, then ? quoth the European pub lic in amaze. No answer. If the Franz Jo seph and the Count Rickberg might, could, or would be hoaxed! May or can such big wigs be hoaxed ? Aren't they hoaxed ? Badly, though, very ? successively asks itself the European public, amazement thawing away gradually into a mild giggle. Here closes tho fictitious part of this history, mainly contributed by the imagina tive F. Joseph and his minister.* Like the old lady who fell into a passion overlooking for her spectacles which were on her own nose, the Kaiser and his man were angrily looking over to Berlin for the origin of this plan, while the first draft lay under their noses, ns it were—and they never smelt the rat 1 The fa mous plan of mediation, so unfavorable in its terms, that the Austrian Emperor directly saw he could make better ones with his Imperial en emy, was drawn up by the latter at Valeggio, and forwarded, byway of Paris, and through the British Foreign Office down to Verona. “The longest way round” throw tho Austrians quite off their scent, and kept quite out of their heads the idea of tracking it “the shortest way home.” And so a few days later, Franz. Joseph went half that very way to sign the “more favorable terms obtainable from Louis Napoleon.” And so the two ends meet and my story is done. Heaven grant that the formula of the old stories may be applicable to the main actor in this : “And they lived in peace, and died in a pot of grease” would be a most unroyal death-bed, but some of ' Napoleon’s predecessors have received extreme unction under less agreeable circumstances. Notwithstanding the French disarmament by land and sea, the English parliament, and here and there other talking bodies, prate still of war. War with England, war with Prussia, a general European war. Whatever his majesty’s designs for the future may be, his present purposes are peaceful. “Z,’ Empire e'est la paix ” jusqu'au nati ve l ordre. And if he wills peace, peace it is for the rest of Europe. That all Europe should wait upon the beck and nod of this one man, as it really docs, is undoubtedly gratifying to the vanity of France, and a maguifieent proof of the great ability he lias displayed in raising himself and drawing France after him to this high con trolling position in European affairs ; and it is tho eompletest condemnation of his system of government—of the one-man system. He is wise, prudent, and provident beyond most men. But he can set the world by the ears to-morrow, this one man. And man lie is, not God. An ill digestion, a fit of spleen, any touch of human weakness, of insanity, may befall him as it may another. On such chance depend the lives of thousands. Truly, our “fierce democracy,” tur- ; bulent and more’s the shame and the pity, even lawless as it sometimes show. 1 - itself, is better than this. Meantime the great mass of Parisians are in high glee, dancing with delight, with very little thought of politics, war, or anything else, ex cept the great, fetes of next Sunday and Monday. On Sunday is to be the entry of the triumphant Army of Italy—the scenic effects of which spec tacle are to be of a sort extraordinary even for Paris. The actors are now rehearsing their parts in camp at Vincennes, which serves as green-room to the grand stage of the Boule vards. Some fifty thousand troops are already arrived there, and thousands more are coming in daily. These tents spreading over the large plain, their stacked army, their tattered flags, the varied uniforms of the different arms, the picturesque costumes of the Zouaves with their bronzed faces, and of the wild Turcos with their black faces, (a novel sight to Parisians) —the manners of the camp—the old acquaintance to be found there—the sons and brothers to be looked up or to be asked after—the wonderful stories of how bloody fields were won to be listened to—are a part of the attractions that daily draw Parisians by the tens of thousands out to camp of St. Maur. The visitors them selves become in turn a new attraction, not less curious and entertaining than the military part of the show. What has most impressed me in my visits there has been the good nature, .the good behavior of civilians and soldiers. I cannot say good order, for of visible order, ex cept in the management of the tents in straight lines and by regiments, there is next to none.— All parts of this great tented city are open to every one—the tents themselves as well as the ground. All these fierce fighters whose terri ble exploits, we have lately read so much of, are the pleasantest, civilest fellows imaginable—the Turcos and Zouaves who did the bloodiest of the bloody work, being rather the most cheery and affable of all. The first of these gentry, the Turcos. the fellows who threw away their cartoueh boxes at one ofthe battles, that they might get on faster with their bayonets, are tlie lions of the day. They are, as you know, with few exceptions, native Africans. Some of them jet black, and with negro features, but the ma jority of more or less pure Moorish blood, and Caucasian features. Only a few of them speak more than a few words of French. With one of these accomplished few I had some conversa tion. He was an intelligent, well looking, eagle nosed man, proud of his African blood and Mahom etan faith, and spoke of ‘yon other French and Catholics,” not sneeringly, but almost condesend ingly, which comes to much tho same thing. He was a volunteer, as are, I believe, all his fellows, holding war to be a most honorable profession, and fighting the most amusing of games. Though our conversation ran chiefly on themes of blood and death, it was conducted on his part in a very cheerful strain. He evidently cherished not a particle of malice toward the Austrians, and when he dashed upon them with the bayonet, had no harder feeling than did the cook, who, “when she put the eels into the paste alive, knocked ’em o’ tho coxcombs with a stick and cry’d ‘down, wantons, down.’ ” He spoke with pleasure of the prospect of soon returning to liia home and his “papa”—the good, loving word of the universal language, coming out gently and almost reverently from the grim lips that uttered terrible death-yells a few weeks ago at Solferino. Futher on I saw another of the Turcos, an older man than my friend, whom a little child had taken the strango fancy to kiss; the mother had consented (I told you the Turcos were the lions of the day, and what will not ladies do to flatter lions?) the soldier was nothing loth, and, squat ted on the ground, held the child in his arms very teuderly, admiring her as you would a flower, and she admiring him as children new gay playthings. Neither could understand the other’s babble, but that was no check to the flow of Arabic and child’s French. Before lie would let her go, he thurst his hand under his tent and, drawing out a tortoise port monuaie, insisted upon giving her one of its too sole franc pieces. Such sights and talks as these, and number less little? traits of camp life, the cooking, the washing, the clothes mending, all of which household operations were going on in the open field in striking contrast to the housewifery style of these ordinary performances, but not unskilfully, make up the entertainment of a visit to the Camp. It is the god Mars at play, not unhelped of Bacchus; for besides a constant flow of cheap bad wine in numberless tents and booths around the field, the soldiers who had leave to go into town sober, are so hospitably beset and fraternized with by the admiring and glorious civilians of the Faubourg St. Antoine, that they are in great danger of returning in a state, not of gross intoxication, (a rare vice with the French) but of what Dr. Maguin used to call “civilation.” In the town of Vincennes, just by the side of this laughing phase of war, is a military hospital. I did not enter it in search of a sad moral to close my pleasant day withal, but in quest-of a legend for your readers. I wished to verify the legend before sending it to you; true legends are so rare now-n-days. This is true, and runs as follows: Once there was a beautiful lady, wife of the Monarcli of France. And when she was “as ladies wish to be who love their lords,” she came one day to the town of Vincennes, and as she was walking there, she came to an image of the Virgin which was set in a niche in the walk that bounded that side of the wood. And being a devout Catholic she knelt there and prayed to the Virgin that she might bear a son to her lord, the heir of his name and throne, and made a vow that, if, by Holy Mary’s interces sion, the prayer were granted, she would build a chapel dedicated to her worship. The prayer was granted, for in due time a male child was born, and the vow was kept. The chapel was built, which is now the chapel of the military hospital at Vincennes. And in the chapel you may now see the same rude image of the Virgin before which the royal lady knelt in the wood. And under it you may read inscribed tho words of the vow she uttered. And out at St. Cloud you may see the Prince Imperial, who was born a few months after they were spoken by the Empress Eugenie. Weight of Distinguished Revolutionary Generals.— On the 10th of August, 1778, the American officers at West Point were weighed, with the following result: Gen. Washington, 209 pounds; Gen. Lincoln, 224 do; Gen. Knox, 280 do; Gen. Huntington, 182 do; Gen.Crea tox, 106 do; Col. Swift, 919 do; CoL Michael Jackson, 252 do; Lieutenant-Colonel Hunting ton, 212 do; Lieutenant-Colonel Cobb, 182 do; Lieutenant Colonel Humphreys, 221 do; Col. Henry Jackson, 298 do. i— opened more, would keep Doc tors from the Door. —A very large quantity of fresh air is spoiled and rendered foul by the act of breathing. A man spoils not less than a gal lon every minute. In about eight hours breath ing, a full grown man spoils 408 gallons of fresh air. If ho wore shut up in a room seven feet long, and seven feet high, the door and windows fitting so tightly that no air could pass through, he would die, poisoned. [Written for the Southern Field and Fire»ide.j LIFE-WHEEE LOCATED. BY N. Life is lodged in a cell. Animal and vegetable life, in the abstract, are the same. Both begin in the primordial cell. This cell—whether “Zoosperm,” “Graafian follicle,” “granule,” or “geminal vesicle” is nothing more than a mi croscopic bag filled with fluid. Place the web of a frog’s foot in a strong light Look at it throngh a compound refracting microscope. The net work you see, is made of arteries. Select any one of these arterial threads, and observe the blood coursing through it It has the ap pearance of a transparent tube, through which a pile of gold dollars is rapidly passing. These gold dollars are “blood discs”—cells, such as above described. Much the same appearance is manifested by a microscopic examination ot a leaf. Each cell is 1 a distinct existence. It con tains the principle of life, and the pabulum, by which animal and vegetable forms are nourished and produced. The sap, filled with cells in the vegetable, and the blood filled with corpuscles in the animal, are the sources of all life. How these cells get out of the circulation, and go to work to make muscle, bark, nerve, leaf, hair, thorns, Ac., we have not space to tell. But it has been done, in a volume of one thousand and ninety-one pages. We simply state that the principle is “life," the agency is a microscopic vesicle, the production is all that is beautiful in animal and vegetable nature. We will briefly allude to a few of the phenomena of life as illus trated in the “zoosperm,” or vegetable cell. Separate a single zoosperm from its vital affi nity to the mass which constitute a toad-stool. It is so small that it is almost impalpable to the senses, even by the aid of a microscope. Tho membrane which constitutes its wall is extreme ly tenuous. Touch it with acetic acid, and it is lost to sight, literally dissolved into nothing. Retouch it with potassa, and it is restored as if by magic. And yet, in a material structure so attenuated, that we might almost say it is “without form and void,” is imprisoned that wonderful principle of life, of which we little know, except that it is embodied in this “vesture of decay.” Take away its life, and its fluids evaporate, leaving the cell a thing of naught. Restore its vitality, and what inconceivable won ders will it work 1 Even while you look, it en larges; its fluid contents thicken; it becomes strictured about the middle like an hour glass; and soon it separates into two seperate cells. It lias reproduced itself. One has become two. Two, four—eight, sixteen—it reproduces as long as life lasts. True to this law a fungous granulation will cover the surface of “cedar balls” in the space of a single wet day. Tho mould upon preserved fruit, the green scum upon “frog ponds,” and all such wet, weather “cryptogamous fungi,” are but proofs of this life power operating within a cell. Jonah’s gourd which grew so vast in a night, obeyed the same laws. The “red dust” which sprinkled the sails of a vessel far out in open ocean, was vegetable life which the trade winds had wafted from the land as if to prove how life could be borne un hurt upon the winged winds. The red snow of the Arctics is but the reflected tint of innu merable myriads of vegetable zoosperms, which lie scattered upon the frozen bosom of the earth. They are life-endowed cells which will not give up their vitality, although the “frost king” demands their death. And they are sister cells with those which produce the dif ferent species of stopclia which, salamander like, live upon tho sun-scorched sands of the desert. Hopefully clinging to the bleak and barren sides of an iceberg, or vegetating on the boiling brink of Geyser’s hot spring, the zoosperm is a wonder of wonders. Well might a learned Doctor say “it is the immediate expo nent of the will of God.” He had pictured its physical conformation, illustrated its dynamic powers, and analyzed its material conditions, but he could not solve the mystery of its being. — His confession proved that the beginning and the end of science is faith. Yes, within the pri mordial cell is hidden the divine secret of vital ity. Here reason and revelation meet to inau gurate the birth of solemn mysteries. Its life does not go out, as does the light when the taper wastes away. Its death is a new birth. The dissolution of every cell is the genesis of similar forms of being which themselves “go forth, increase, and multiply,” until earth, sea, and air become vivid with living organisms.— And what a beautiful adaptation of means to ends? This elemental germ is so small that it is invisible, and yet it is so secure that pon derable matter cannot crush out its life. Could ingenuity have devised a “receptaculum vital” more perfectly answering the necessities of the case? So simple in its formation, yet it is a per fect chemical laboratory, as its office in the ani mal economy proves. It presides over the func tions of secretion, absorption, nutrition, and in a word supplies all the wants of vegetation and animation. Within its narrow compass it gives scope for the operation of the same dy namic forces which have cracked the surface of an “iron ribbed world.” It is the condensation of power immense, the limitation of life illimi table. It is a proof that immaterial power, which heretofore was a “law unto itself,” has been brought into captivity to the weakest of material laws—laws which will enslave it until time ends and eternity begins, for since the creation “breathed into it the breath of life,” it has never died. Thus, though an infinitesimally small subject, yet is it one that is pregnant with large results. A text for the moralist, a question for the materialist, a theme for the philosopher, a moot point, and a mystery to them all. The materialist is surely the farthest removed from the truth. He “lies in cold obstruction,” who imprisons his hopes and unfolds his reasons within the area of a cell whose status is change, whose life is death. Were it not best to believe it an inspired book of Genesis, and in such in dexes although small pricks to their subsequent volume, to see the baby figure of the giant mass of things to come at large?” In the pri mordial cell science has found a “sorted resi dence against the tooth of time and the rasure of oblivion”—a residence more permanent than the pyramids. A grain of wheat which chanced to become encased in the gum used for the preservation of Egyptian Kings—a grain of wheat which has preserved its vitality for un- Itold ages—a single grain of wheat has recently reproduced itself an hundred fold. We eat tho same bread to-day which Pharaoh eat on yester day- Life in the germ, life in embryo, life in the initiative—truly it is tho divine inauguration of a solemn mystery, dawning in mystery as morning dawns in mist. The Elastic Egg. —Take a good and sound egg, place it in strong vinegar, and allow it to remain twelve hours; it will theu become soft and elastic. In this state it can be squeezed into a tolerably wide-mouthed bottle : when in, it must bo covered with water haring somo so da in it. In a few hours this preparation will restore the egg nearly to its original solidity, after which tho liquid should be poured off and the bottle dried. Keep it as a curiosity to puz zle your friends for an explanation how the egg was laid in the bottle. CHESS COLUMN. GAME 111. give below a game of Phil ulor, reported by • celebrated French author and chess-player Bourdon not*: White. 1 P from d 3 to d 4 2 P from c 2 to c 4 8 P from e 2 to e 4 (2) 4 P from d 4 tod 5 (4) 5 Ktfrombl tocß 0 P from f 2 to f 8 7 Kt from c 8 to a 4 (6) 8 K from h 1 to g 1: 9 Kt from a 4 to c 8 10 B from flto c 4; (9) IIP from g2to f 8: (10) 12 B from c 1 to e 8 18 Q from d 1 to d 2 14 B from e 3 to b 6: 15 K castles to c 1 16 R from g 1 to g 5 17 Q from d 2 to e 8 18 Kt from c 3 to e 4 19 P from f 8 to e 4: (11) 20 K from c 1 to b 1 21 Q from e 8 to c 5 : 22 K from d 1 to e 1 28 K from b 1 to c 2 24 R from g 5 tog 8 25 R from g 8 tooß 26 P from d 5 tod 6 (12) 27 R fromb 8 tob6: 2S K from e 1 to d 1 29 R from b 6 to b 71 80 B from c 4 to d 5 (13) 81 R from d 1 to d 6: 82 R from d 5 to d 2 38 R from d 2 to e 2 84 P from e 4 to d 5 : 85 R from b 7 to e 7 36 R from e 7 to e5: 37 R from c 2 to e 5: 8S K from c 2 to c 8 39 P from a 2 to a 4 (15) 40 P from a 4 to a 5 41 R from e 5 to e 1 42 R from e 1 to g 1 43 K from c 8 to c 4 44 P from a 5 to a 6 45 K from c 4 to c 5: 46 K from c 5 to b 6 47 P from a 6 toa7 48 R from g 1 tog 2 : (17) 49 P from b 2 to D 4 50 R from g 2 toh2 51 P from b 4 to b 5 62 K from b 6 to c 6 53 P from b 5 to b 6 64 P from b 6 to b 7 NOTES. (1) The capture of a piece Is indicated by two point* (:) ut the c nihp tile move. Check to the King is indicated by a dagger (+) at the end of the move. (2) If you should push this pawn only one sqnnre, your queen's bishop would be hampered, during half the game. (8) It instead of playing this pawn, the Blacks had supjiorted that of the gambit, they w ould have lost the game. (4) If yon had played Pd4to e 8 you would have lost the advantage of the attack. (5) If the Blacks had made any other move, it woald have been necessary to push I* f 2 to f 4, which would have procured entire liberty of action for your piece*. (6) Instead of playing this knight to rid yourself of their king's bishop, you might have taken the pawn of the gambit, but you would then have lost the game. (7) If instead of taking this Knight the Blacks had played B c 5 to d 4, you might have attacked it by play ing Kt g 1 toe 2, and taking the next move. (S) If the Blacks had pushed P b T to b 5 to support the pawn of themimbit, they would have lost the game; and if instead of one of these two moves, they had pre ferred to move Pfs to e 4:, you would have replied by moving P f 8 to e 4 :, and the Blacks would not have dared to move Ktftf to e 4:, because you would then have won the game by playing Qd 1 toh 5t (9) This is a curious move. If you had moved Pf 8 toe 4 : you would have lost the game. (10) By taking with this pawn you open for your rook a passage upon the adversary’s queen. (11) To connect itself with the queen's. (12) To open passage for your rook and bishop. (18) To prevent the advance of the adversary's pawns. (14) If the Blacks should support this pawn they would lose the game. (15) If instead of pushing this pawn you had moved K e 5 to c 6: you would have lost tno game, because your king would havo prevented your rook from approaching to close the passage to the adversary’s knight's pawn. (I®) I* the Blacks should not take your pawn they would lose their own, and the game immediately. (17) If instead of taking their pawn, you had taken their rook, you would have lost the game. (18) You take their rook, and as their pawn will cost yours, it is evident that it is a drawn game. SOLUTION OK PROBLEM IL Published in our last No, page 109. White* move queen from a 2 to g 8 Now, Black* cannot move without affording to the ad versary opportunity for giving a check-mate the next move. PROBLEM ItL (From Bourdonnai*.) WHITE. BLACK. Pawn on g 2 Kook on c 1 King on h 8 Queen ou e 1 Kook on g 4 Knight on f 5 Bishop on c 5 • King on h 5 Knight on d 8 Pawn on g 6 , Pawn on h T White moving from 1 to 8 Black moving from 8 to 1 hite to play, and mate in three moves. Solution to above I roblem will be given in our next number. NEW BOOKS. From the N. T. Saturday Pres*, for tho week ending August 27,1859: s Morphy s Uatch Games; being a full and accurate ac count of his success abroad, defeating, in almost every instance, the Chess celebrities of Europe. Edited, with copious and valuable notes, by Charles Hcntv Stanly, author of the “Chess-player's Instructor.” Embellished with a superb steel portrait of Paul Morphy, from a pho tograph by Brady. New York: Robert M. DeWitt, Recollections, by Samuel Rogers, of Personal Conver sational Intercourse with Charles James Fox, Grattan, I orson Horne Tooke, Talleyrand, Sir Walter Scott, Ed mund Burke, Duke of Wellington, and others. With a preface by Samuel Rogers. Edited by Mr. Rogers’ nephew, Wm. Sharp. 1 v01.,12m0. Printed on tinted Boston : Bartlett A Mills, 1859. Tb® of Faith. An address to the Alumni of the Divinity School of Harvard University, Cambridge, Given July 19, 1859. By Henry W. Bellows, I>. D. New York :C. 8. Francis A 00. 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