It is easy to understand tho passionate desperation of inexperienced youth, when things go wrong, and disappointment comes to shatter the fairy shrine that hope and fancy have busied themselves in building up out of mist wreaths and rain bows. The boy's fever-fit of despair when cruel parents interpose with their vile prosaic calculations of how much for house-rent, and how much for the butcher and baker, with the maddening deficit against tho artist's income that is to pro vide food and a home for the beloved, and consequent denial of the daughter's hand, and interruption of ell inter course for the good of both — well, he thinks that he shall never get over it ! It has broken his heart, destroyed his life, ruined his happiness, for ever, and there is nothing worth living for now, since Araminta is impossible. On her side, Araminta holds that it would be very nice to die and have done with the trouble of dressing for balls when Bertie is not there to see her — where, if he ia there, he is not to dance with her, make sweet love in the conservatory, on the stairs, over the ices, the champagne. She thinks that, Bertie denied, her woman hood will have no more sweetness, bring her no more hope ; she will never get over it — never, she saya weeping to her confi dante ; but next year she is the radiant wife of a well-to-do stockbroker, and Bertie's artistry and love-making are no more substantial than her childish dreama

Somo interesting results wore given 'by Mr H. M. Taylor in a paper " On the Relative Values of the Pieces at Chess," read before tho British Association at Bristol. He found by a mathe matical process that, if a knight and king of diileront colours wore placed on a chessboard at random, the odds agaiust the king being in check wero 11 to 1 ; if a bishop and king, 31 to 5 ; if a rook and a king, 7 to 2 ; and if a queen and a king, 23 to 13. If, however, we consider only safe check— i.e., check in which the king is unable to take tho pioco — the odds are re spectively 11 to 1, 131 to 13, sto 1, 107 to 37. 