1.  MY 26 39 66 55 40 48 44 11 12 is a poet of ancient Greece.

 2.  My 25 24 33 8 42 is a poet of ancient Italy.

 3.  My 69 36 14 50 18 3 41 is a poet of England.

 4.  My 22 58 65 37 9 by 59 21 53 23 47 28 is a German poem.

 5.  My 47 62 64 38 is a historian of England.

 6.  My 30 46 54 48 15 32 is a popular American writer.

 7.  My 34 7 46 57 41 50 70 is a Scottish writer.

 8.  My 6 13 67 16 1 17 68 63 5 52 is an English poet.

 9.  My 47 24 2 23 10 68 63 43 4 is an American writer of fiction.

10.  My 49 41 19 56 35 is an eminent geologist.

11.  My 16 24 27 41 is a scientist of England.

12.  My 45 61 60 67 37 13 31 is one of America’s living writers.

13.  My 61 7 20 29 is another American writer.

The whole is an extract of two lines (seventy letters) from a noted English poem.

F.H.R.

TRANSPOSITIONS.

In each of the following sentences fill the blank or blanks in the first part with words whose letters, when transposed, will suitably fill the remaining blank or blanks.

1. ——­ ——­ ——­ words with a man in a ——. 2.  Did you see the tiger ——­ on me with his ——­ eyes? 3.  McDonald said:  “——­ ——­ ragged ——­ remind you of Scotland.” 4.  The knots may be ——­ more easily than ——. 5. ——­ ——­ told me an ——­ which amused all in his tent. 6.  I hung the ——­ on the ——­ round of the rack. 7.  The witness is of small value if he can ——­ ——­ information that is more ——­ than this. 8.  The ——­ ——­ as they look over the precipices in their steep ——.

EASY REVERSALS.

1.  Reverse a color, and give a poet. 2.  Reverse a musical pipe, and give an animal. 3.  Reverse an entrance, and give a measure of surface. 4.  Reverse an inclosure, and give a vehicle. 5.  Reverse part of a ship, and give an edible plant. 6.  Reverse a noose, and give a small pond. 7.  Reverse a kind of rail, and give a place of public sale. 8.  Reverse sentence passed, and give temper of mind. 9.  Reverse a portion, and give an igneous rock. 10.  Reverse an apartment, and give an upland.

ISOLA.

DOUBLE DIAMOND.

The first and ninth words, together, make vegetables that grow in the second upon the third in the fourth; the eighth, a girl, after performing the fifth upon the first and ninth in the fourth, pulling the second the while, did the sixth to get them into the house; here the eighth soon had them upon the seventh, cooking for dinner.

Perpendicular, heavy; horizontal, picking.

G.L.C.

CURTAILMENTS AND BEHEADINGS.

  To the name of a gifted man,
  Affix a letter, if you can,
  And find his avocation.