i8.vi.APBiL3,itt.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
4
2i 52
49
g
23
54
37
51
48 3
22
53
36
9
24
20
5 50
1
26
7
38
55
47
2 19
6
35
56
25
10
18
33 58
43
14
27
64
39
59
46 15
34
57
42
11
28
32
17 44
61
30
13
40
63
45
60 31
16
41
62
29
12
(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 :
19
o
55
4-J
i
21 6
53
44
56
41
20
1 3
3
54 43
22
7
1
18
39
58
5 24
,
45
52
40
57
4
17
46 51
8
23
31
16
59
38
25 12
i
63
50
34
37
32
13
62 47
26
9
15'
30
35
60
11 ! 28
49
64
36
33
14
29
48 61
.1
10
27
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,
