Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-21


The Book the Rrs American ohes Congress. containing tn
proceedings q celebrated assSlase held in New Yor il
played in tie Grand Tournasnts and s Eatasems entered
in the Problem Tourney together with SKETCHES Of the His
Riske, A. n zeW York: Buad & Carlton
Our Chess Editor is not at home. We decline
stating whether he is collecting chess items in the
cafes d'eschec of Paris. or arranging new chess
tournaments the plains Of Tartary the heights
Of Chimborazo Sufficient that he is absent, and
that stupendous results may be anticipated from
the labors in which he is engaged. Meantime, we
must try our unprofessional hand in recording the
merits of this very excellent publication It is,A
it processes to be, occupied with the history Of
Chess in general, and American Chess in particular
specially with the brilliant career of our own
chessschampion, Paul MoRPHY.
All the games of the New York Chess Tourna-
ment given, IA ertsnso, furnishing the amateur
with perfect magazine of modern chess tactics
executed by the very first men of the present day,
such MoRPHY, PAuLsEN, RAPHAEL, LIcHrENHEIS,
STANLEY, &c, &c.
Now, were our regular man at his post, he would
doubtessly give learned crtiques of all these games
showing by what uncomfortable mistakes, MORPHY
persisted in winning games, which, by all correct
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how he ought to have played so as to have lost,
clinden drfsa. For onr own poor part, we but re-
commend the book to chess readers, assuring
them that in the careful study of single game,
played by the masters of the art they will learn
more than by playing dozen games, such as they
can get up with other amateurs. [For sale at W. 7.
BERRY's Col Eas
The Life, Travels and Books If A1ExAEDzR
with ap Introduction by BAYARD TAYLOR. New York RuDD
HoMBoLDT may be considered the representative
of the scientific literature of the 18th century;
for the peculiar characteristic of modern science is
its disessiUe character; dscursve not desultOry,-
not fitting capriciously from department to an
other but exploring those border territories between
one science and another, when one department of
knowledge leads into another and unites the con-
quests of science into an harmonious and mutually
dependent system of pholosophic cycles, each mos
culating and interseeting with all the rest. The
character of his mind was disposition to eontem
plate the universal in its endless wealth of speciali
ties, pursuing each speciality with the concentrated
industry Of specialist, but always seeking to give
it when investigated appropriate place in the
universal system of the world, in that Cosmos
which the vast conception of his capricious in
telect, always towering above his minor TOPICS like
a stupendous mountain in the back ground of va
ried landscape, towards which all the lines of the
foreground tend with the harmonious conveyance
of picturesque perspective. a.
We have always looked upon his exploration of
Mount Tenerife described in his first voyage, an
event which more less gave scope andFlirectiOn
to all his subsequent explorations and speculatiOns
its succession of climates from arctic to tropical
with their successive zones of vegetable and animal
life, corresponding on small scale with the law of
organic distribution throughout the world seems TO
have directed his thoughts TO those intricate rea-
tions of life and matter that connect organic with
inorganic nature and so bring together the great
facts of astronomy, geography. geOguosy, natural
history and physiology, in vast structure, every
constituent mass of which is kept in its place by the
sqpeTincumbent pressure of that keystone Of all
science, the doctrine Of UNITY IN CREATION.
If any one desires to foiloW tho progressive his
tory of that mind which has converted the scientific
chaos Of the nineteenth century into Cosmos, here
Is work which viii give HIM what he wants in .
moderate space and well executed.
For sale by W. 7. Benny 4 Co,