use that beautiful language. The method of Don Rabadon is calculated to impart a competent knowledge with accuracy and facility. We by all means advise its use in attempting to master that, perhaps, one of the easiest of European languages. CHESS FOR WINTER EVENINGS, Containing the Rudiments of the Game, and Elementary Analyses of the most Popular Openings, exemplified in Games actually Played by the Greatest Masters; including Staunton's Analysis of the Kings and Queens, Gambit's numerous Positions and Problems of Diagrams, both Original and Selected; and a Series of Chess Tales with Illustrations, Engraved from Original Designs: The whole Extracted and Translated from the best sources. By H. R. Agnell. D. Appleton & Co., 200 Broadway. The publication of books, like the noble volume before us, on the game of chess, is of itself a most gratifying proof of the increasing popularity of the chief of games. As its title sets forth, this treatise contains the most complete and practical elementary information for the use of those desirous of becoming initiated, and is at the same time rich in diagrams of the most celebrated problems of the most renowned players, for the use of those more advanced in the science. It is a great error to class chess with ordinary games of mere recreation. It should be made part of a liberal education. As mathematics are taught in many cases, not with a view to their intrinsic usefulness, but for the purpose of disciplining the mind, so ought chess to be cultivated with the same object, and we doubt not it might be with equal success. POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF THE REV. THOMAS CHALMERS, D. D., LL.D. Edited by the Rev. William Hanna, LL.D. Harper Brothers. This is the 2d volume of the series, of which we announced the appearance some time since, from the prolific press of the Messrs. Harpers. It is the second volume of Scripture Readings, of which the number is three. The remaining volumes of the set containing other of the much-admired works of this eminent divine. NORTH BRITISH REVIEW. Leonard Scott & Co., 79 Fulton-street. This periodical is now in the third year of its existence, and has already attained an extended circulation, and a most unprecedented degree of popularity, in Great Britain and Ireland. The great ecclesiastical movement in Scotland led to its establishment. There was no journal in the United Kingdom which appeared to meet the necessities of this AntiNational-Church agitation. Indeed, the revolution caused by the disruption induced a new state of things, placing the actors in new positions of observation; nor could they give utterance to their new perceptions of State and Church Polity-their new sympathies-their new emotions, without some other organ of thought than any then extant. Hence the spontaneous agreement of the great master minds among them, in the necessity of a new outlet of opinion, and the immediate creation of the North British Review. The place of the late lamented Dr. Chalmers is ably filled by his distinguished son-inlaw, Dr. Hanna, who is now the principal editor of the North British; and the numbers which have appeared since the death of Dr. C., show, by the exceeding ability displayed in their leading articles, that the Review has lost nothing of its original tone and talent. LONDON QUARTERLY AND ED NBUGRH REVIEW. L. Scott & Co. These celebrated quarterlies contain the usual amount of interesting matter. use that beautiful language. The method of Don Rabadon is calculated to impart a competent knowledge with accuracy and facility. We by all means advise its use in attempting to master that, perhaps, one of the easiest of European languages. CHESS FOR WINTER EVENINGS, Containing the Rudiments of the Game, and Elementary Analyses of the most Popular Openings, exemplified in Games actually Played by the Greatest Masters; including Staunton's Analysis of the Kings and Queens, Gambit's numerous Positions and Problems of Diagrams, both Original and Selected; and a Series of Chess Tales with Illustrations, Engraved from Original Designs: The whole Extracted and Translated from the best sources. By H. R. Agnell. D. Appleton & Co., 200 Broadway. The publication of books, like the noble volume before us, on the game of chess, is of itself a most gratifying proof of the increasing popularity of the chief of games, As its title sets forth, this treatise contains the most complete and practical elementary information for the use of those desirous of becoming initiated, and is at the same time rich in diagrams of the most celebrated problems of the most renowned players, for the use of those more advanced in the science. It is a great error to class chess with ordinary games of mere recreation. It should be made part of a liberal education. As mathematics are taught in many cases, not with a view to their intrinsic usefulness, but for the purpose of disciplining the mind, so ought chess to be cultivated with the same object, and we doubt not it might be with equal success. POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF THE REV. THOMAS CHALMERS, D. D., LL.D. Edited by the Rev. William Hanna, LL.D. Harper Brothers. This is the 2d volume of the series, of which we announced the appearance some time since, from the prolific press of the Messrs. Harpers. It is the second volume of Scripture Readings, of which the number is three. The remaining volumes of the set containing other of the much-admired works of this eminent divine. NORTH BRITISH REVIEW. Leonard Scott & Co., 79 Fulton-street. This periodical is now in the third year of its existence, and has already attained an extended circulation, and a most unprecedented degree of popularity, in Great Britain and Ireland. The great ecclesiastical movement in Scotland led to its establishment. There was no journal in the United Kingdom which appeared to meet the necessities of this AntiNational Church agitation. Indeed, the revolution caused by the disruption induced a new state of things, placing the actors in new positions of observation; nor could they give utterance to their new perceptions of State and Church Polity-their new sympa thies-their new emotions, without some other organ of thought than any then extant. Hence the spontaneous agreement of the great master minds among them, in the neces sity of a new outlet of opinion, and the immediate creation of the North British Review. The place of the late lamented Dr. Chalmers is ably filled by his distinguished son-inlaw, Dr. Hanna, who is now the principal editor of the North British; and the numbers which have appeared since the death of Dr. C., show, by the exceeding ability displayed in their leading articles, that the Review has lost nothing of its original tone and talent. LONDON QUARTERLY AND ED NBUGRH REVIEW. L. Scott & Co. These celebrated quarterlies contain the usual amount of interesting matter. |