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22 THE WESTMINSTER BUDGET AUGUST 19, i 898 LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS. You will find a few books on the counter of most drapers' shops nowadays, but few people realise the enormous extent to which drapers are entering into competition with the legitimate bookseller in the sale of these cheap volumes. Mr. Justice Kekewich had before him, on the eve of the Long Vacation, an interesting Chancery action in which two London firms of drapers' book publishers were litigants, and it came out that between them they sold no fewer than six million books a year to the public through the medium of drapers. Besides these, firms, there is a Glasgow house willing to take an order for a million volumes from its stock.

With few exceptions, the books are non-copyright standard works, got up in somewhat gaudy cloth bindings, and sell retail at or As a speciality in bookselling, the trade is only five or six years old. The second volume of C. H. Spurgeon's Autobiography will be ready next week. From the nature of its contents it is likely to be the most interesting of the four which are to complete the work.

It brings the eminent Baptist's life up to the early years in the Metropolitan Tabernacle, and presents the reader with a scries of caricatures cf the popular preacher, as indicative of the public attitude towards him. The opening chapters are entirely from the pen of Mrs. Spurgeon, who writes of their love, courtship, and marriage, and gives a brief account of their honeymoon trip to Paris. A description of a visit Mr. Job 11 Ruskin to Mr.

Spurgeon in 1859, when the latter was recovering from a severe illness, is a feature of the forthcoming volume. The Caedmon Cross at Whitby, erected in honour of England's first Christian poet, will be unveiled by'the Poet Laureate on September 21. The cross, which will stand 20i't. from the ground, has been modelled after the general shape and proportion of the four great Anglian crosses that were erected in Caedmon's time, and which are wholly or in part extant The whole cross shaft, which weighs close on three tons, richly carved, with emblem and fym.bol on all four sides, and the famous nine lines of Caedmon's Song of Creation in the Moore Baeda at given upon the cross in English, in Rune, and in Saxon minuscale. £70 is still required to meet, the cost of the memorial, and Canon Rawnsley, Crosthwaite Vicarage, will be glad to hear from intending subscribers before September 21.

Cardinal Wiseman's Meditations on the Incarnation and Life of the Lord, form a -companion volume to the Cardinal's Meditations on the Passion lately published, will contain some forty meditations, many of which have not yet been seen in print. Messrs. Burns and Oates have this volume in the press. The many readers who have been interested in Froude'sLife and Letters of Erasmus will be glad to know that Mr. T.

Bailey Saunders, the author of The Art of Literature" and a volume entitled Goethe's Maxims and Reflections," in which work he was assisted and Leighton, has been at work for some time past upon the Life of Philip Meianchthon (1497-1560), the reformer and educationalist. Many English readers suppose that Meianchthon was merely a shadow and follower of Luther, but the Life Mr. Bailey Saunders has in hand will show him as a man modern in spirit and broad and sympathetic reformer in the Lutheran sense certainly, but a humanist at heart. Mr. Bailey Saunders is also about to have published, in a much enlarged form, and under a title presently to be announced, a collection of his articles on the religions philosophy of the day, contributed from time to time to the AUiemvitm.

Among the many works upon Bismarck which may now be expected, an interesting one will be the" Life and Times of Bismarck," by Mr. William Jacks, who has been engaged upon the volume for some years past. The first chapters of the book deal with the fifty years prior to 1847, when Bismarck first appeared in the German Parliament, thus placing the reader in possession of facts enabling him to follow the great questions which eventually called for solution in the great Chancellor's day, and the situations which showed his powers and developed his character. Mr. Jacks, who has long studied the politics and literature of Germany, will be remembered for his translation of Lessing's 4 Nathan the Wise." 1 The Stevenson which is being prepared by Mr.

Lloyd will contain ten full-page illustrations, and be issued before long by Messrs. Chatto and Windus. Miss M. M. Black has written a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson for Messrs.

Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier's Famous Scots series. OUR CHESS COLUMN. COLOGNE, August 11. Six more rounds, including today's, will complete the Cologne Tournament The surprise of everybody has beenlhe remarkable score of Herr Cohn i Berlin, who heads the list, closely followed by Burn and Charousek, and the poor form janowsky has shown. was thought to be a walk-over for JrmJwsky after the form shown in Vienna.

It could not be ah chance with Cohn, for he has drawn with both Charousek and Stc.nit*, a bea'en Janowsky and Tchigorin. Ste.mtz has had more than the usual share of luck He should have lost with Cohn and was let off iih a draw He won a game irom Janowsky which was dead Hp 'mrirhsen resigned under a misapprehension when he had at "ood a position as and yesterday Schallopp let him off with Hnw The present Tournament will only confirm what we have said over and over again, that a one-round tournament is more or less of a l0U The leading scoies are (after the ninth round) Cohn, 7. Burn, Charousek, 6. Schlechter, 6. Steinitz, Tchigorin, Janowsky, 5.

Showalter, 5, Schificrs, 4 H. (Tch igorin and Charousek have an unfinished anie,) The following is a fine specimen of style. It was played the ninth round in 1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

9. 10. 11. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

26. 27. 28. R. Charousek.

White. to K4 to Q4 Kt to QB3 Kt Kt to Kt3 Kt to B3 to KR4 to Q3 to B4 Castles QR to Kt sq Kt to sq KKt to Q2 QtoK2 Kt to K4 Kt to K5 Kt KBP Kt to B4 Kt Kt (B7) to K5 to B3 Kt to Kt2 Klo.Kt3 1' CARO-KANN Popirl. Black. to QB3 to c4 to B4 to Kt3 to K3 to KR3 Kt to Q2 KKt to B3 to R4 Castles to K2 Kt to B4 Kt to Q4 Kt KttoQ4 KR to sq to B3 Kt to 116 ch (B3) Rio (04 BP to Kt5 ch Kt ch Kt eh kx() to ()5 29. 30.

31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

7 -7 "58. 39 DEFENCE. R. Charousek. White.

to to B3 to R5 to KB4 to sq to B2 to Q3 to. R4 to B3 to QKt s(j to B'4 to Ki5 to KB5 BP to B4 to QKt5 to B5 to K5 to K6 ch to Kt5 to 'lib ch to B4 to KKt4 ch to Kt6 eh RP 36. 3 3 3 40. 41. 42.

43. 44. 45. 46. 47.

43. 49. 50. 61. 52.

53. 54. 55. IV'pi Black. to 02 B3 to 113 to 03 to to R4 to ()2 to 03 to to H3 to K2 ch P.

to 113 to Q3 to to Kt4 to P.3 to H2 rf to Q5 to ()2 to B4 to K2 to B3 I' Resigns PROBLEM NO. IIP. By E. Schwann. BLACK; WHITE.

White to play and mate in three moves. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO, IIP. White. Black. l.KtoQ7 Kt to B7(a, c) 2.

Kt to Kt2 ch takes P. 3. Kt takes mate KttoQ6 2. Kt to K3 K.takes 3. Kt takes mate (By O.

Wiirzburg, Grand Rapids.) White. Klack. 1. Kt to lib 2. to Q6 any move 3.

mates (c) 1. takes Kt or 2. to Kt4 ch 3. to Q4 mate any other move to 04.