The Manual of Chess; Containing the Elementary Principles of the Game.  Illustrated with numerous Diagrams, recent Games and Original Problems.  By Charles Kenny. 1 vol. 12mo.  Price 50 cents.

“Within the compass of this work I have included all that is necessary for the beginner to learn.  In recommendation of this Manual, I can safely assert that it contains more than any publication of the same dimensions.  The Problems contained herein, as also one of the ’Games actually played,’ are original, and have never been published.”

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The Book of Chess; Containing the Rudiments of the Game, and Elementary Analysis of the most Popular Openings, exemplified in games actually played by the great masters, including Staunton’s Analysis of the Kings and Queens, Gambits, numerous Positions and Problems on Diagrams, both original and selected; also, a series of Chess Tales, with illustrations from original designs.  The whole extracted and translated from the best sources.  New Edition.  By H.R.  Agnel. $1.25.

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Sixty Years’ Gleanings from Life’s Harvest.  A Genuine Autobiography.  By John Brown. 1 vol. 12mo.  Cloth, $1.

“A remarkable book in every respect, and curiously interesting from beginning to end.  John Brown lived with ‘all his might,’ and the ‘Life’ he writes is, in its abundance and variety of tragic and comic ups-and-downs, as good as a play.  His experiences partook of all the quick changes and boisterous bustle, and rude humor of an old English fair; and as they are presented in this volume they afford a picture of the times he lived and incessantly moved in, which, in much of its bold handling, is not to be surpassed by less spirited pencils than those of Fielding and De Foe.  The moral, even as you trace it through the bustling table of contents, is of unmistakable application for every fine young fellow of sound natural principles who has to shoulder his own way to good citizenship and a share of social influence.

“As a neglected child, a ‘juvenile offender,’ an ingenious vagabond, a, shoemaker, a soldier, an actor, a sailor, a publican, a billiard-room keeper, a Town Councillor, and an author, Mr. Brown has seen the world for sixty years, and he unhesitatingly describes all that he has seen, with fidelity of memory and straightforward simplicity of style.”