of order, except that in pursuing one species of uniformity, it loses
sight of another. By confining the king to move precisely the same
distance from his original square, whether he castles on the king’s
side or the queen’s side, his relation to the covering pawns, when
castled, and the space from the exterior of the board, is not on
each side uniform. If the rule be intended to restrain a piece from
exerting unnecessary license, in leaping over another piece, it should
be remembered, that either the king or the rook must vault three
squares in castling on the queen’s side, and the king is entitled to
the prerogative of taking this flight once in a campaign, in preference
to the rook. Under the mode here prescribed, the king is not equally
shielded on the queen’s side as on the king’s. In the inceptive games
of the Introduction, the castled king is invariably placed on the
knight’s square, and the rook on the bishop’s. The object, however,
is of less importance than the two preceding; and as to any striking
influence on the aspect of the game, does not furnish materials for a
cogent argument, founded on a comparison of effects. The reader having
surveyed both modes, will induct that which he approves, into his own
practice.