Double Chess Acrostic

"American Chess Journal"
          Sept. 1878

"A Double Chess Acrostic"
   by W. A. Ballantine

Charming as the sweetest musiC ;
High  above  the  common reacH ;
Easy   to   the   bright  and  wisE ;
Splendid  in the hands of geniuS ;
Such  the  royal  game  of  ChesS.

Very clever, and true!

Yeah, I thought it was kind of cute.

Thanks for sharing this!  I wonder if either of my chess-playing great-grandfathers saw it.  They had already met and played chess with each other by 1878, but they had not yet borne the son and the daughter who would eventually marry.

W. A. Ballantine of New York City was mainly a problemist.

                                 White to move and mate in 4

If 1... Kxe6 then 4. Nf4 is mate.

Thanks.  I guess even typos can even apply putting in variations.