Pictures of the French, a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874, Cormenin, Louis-Marie de Lahaye, vicomte de, 1788-1868 · London : W.S. Orr · leaf 234
THE CHESS-PLAYER BY MERY. … IKE an universal alphabet, the Chess-board is known toaU nations. The Bonze plays at chess in the pagodaof Juggernaut; the palanquin-bearing slave reflectshow he may best checkmate a pebble king, on a chess-board traced on the sands of the Ganges ; the Icelandicbishop wiles away the tedious gloom…
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