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 i8.vi.APBiL3,itt.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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(2) In the case of an allied system. Suppose starting point = White's Q R 6 ; terminal = White's K R 2. These are in different square systems. Complete the first square system ; then the first diamond system ; then cover two squares of the terminal square system ; then complete the second diamond system ; lastly, cover the 14 remaining squares of the second square system in which the terminal is located. Take care that you visit this quarter of the board last :

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According to a French author of the last century, a M. Solvyns has demonstrated that the Knight's tour can be done in 20,160 different ways ; and a M. 1'Abbe Durand has developed a method of solution still more sure than this of Dr. Roget. It is to be found in the Regence for 1856, p. 366. Have any of your chess-playing readers access to this old periodical ? One would like to learn what

the cleric's method is, and if it is really surer than the mathematician's. Need I add that none of these examples are taken from the- " books " ? JOHN W. BROWN.

MATHEW MYEBSE (12 S. vi. 36). Im saying that this Winchester Scholar of 1547 came from "Milton," MB. WAINEWBIGHT seems to have adopted a statement which, occurs in Kirby's book, at p. 127, but which, is due to a mis-reading of the entry in our Register of admissions. The original entry runs thus :

" Matheua Myersse, de My lion, Weschester diocesis, xi annorum in festo mitalis domini* preterite."

The boy was one of twenty-four who took- the scholars' oath here, in the Warden's chamber, on Sept. 5, 1551, and the record of that event, in our Register " O," describes- him, with less precision than might be expected from a public notary, as " Matheus Myars de Northehumberlande in comitatu Lanquishere." However, there can be no- doubt that he hailed from Millom in Cumber- land, which, though now in the diocese oi Carlisle, was formerly in that of Chester. Millom seems to have been the home of a family of Myers for many generations, for Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses ' mentions- Robert Myers, son of William, of " Millum," Cumberland, who went to Queen's College in> 1686.

To the entry quoted above from our Register of admissions there is an old* marginal note, but the ink has faded badly,, and I am only sure about the first word of it, " Informator." MB. WAINEWBIGHT has- already stated that Mathew Myers became prebendary of Highleigh, and perhaps the- note relates indirectly to that fact, for Bishop Edward Storey, when he founded the- prebendal school at Chichester in. 1497 attached the stall of Highleigh to the head- mastership. H. C. Winchester College.

MBS. GOBDON, NOVELIST (12 S. vi. 38). This was the daughter of Sir David Brewstei (1781-1868), the natural philosopher, and her Christian names were Margaret Maria, her married name was Gordon. In addition to her novels she wrote the ' Home Life of Sir David Brewster ' (Edinburgh, 1869), which ran through three editions. Some of her novels sold by the many thousand ; ' Little- Millie,' for instance, went to 56,000, and. ' Sunbeams in the Cottage,' 44,000.

ABCHIBALD SPABKE,