Curtail a piece of work he did,
  You’ll find a word that now is hid,—­
  A madman’s occupation.

  Behead another, you will find
  Measures of a certain kind
  Used by the English nation.

G.L.C.

EASY NUMERICAL ENIGMA.

The whole, composed of fourteen letters, names the hero of a well-known book.  The 1 7 3 4 8 is a singing-bird of America.  The 9 10 2 6 12 is a religious emblem.  The 13 11 5 9 14 is an Oriental animal.

ISOLA.

PICTORIAL ANAGRAM PROVERB-PUZZLE.

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The answer is a proverb of five words.  Each numeral beneath the pictures represents a letter in the word of the proverb indicated by that numeral,—­4 showing that the letter it designates belongs to the fourth word of the proverb, 3 to the third word, and so on.

Find a word that describes each picture and contains as many letters as there are numerals beneath the picture itself.  This is the first process.

Then put down, some distance apart, the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, to correspond with the words of the proverb.  Group beneath figure 4 all the letters designated by the numeral 4 in the numbering beneath the pictures (since, as already stated, all the letters there designated by the numeral 4 belong to the fourth word of the proverb).  You will thus have in a group all the letters that the fourth word contains, and you then will have only to transpose those letters in order to form the word itself.  Follow the same process of grouping and transposition in forming each of the remaining words of the proverb.  Of course, the transposition need not be begun until all the letters are set apart in their proper groups.

J.B.

AN OLD MAXIM.

BEHEADED AND CURTAILED.

—­IGH—­ —­are—­ —­pea—. —­rea—­ —­ne—­ —­r—­ —­um—.

C.D.

EASY UNIONS.

1.  Join ease and an ornament, by a vowel, and make recovering—­thus:  rest-o-ring (restoring). 2.  Join pleasant to the taste to a boy’s nickname, by a vowel, and make honeyed. 3.  Join to bury to a bite of an insect, by a vowel, and make what pleasant stories are.

C.D.

RHOMBOID PUZZLE.

ACROSS:  1.  Portion of an ode. 2.  A musical drama. 3.  Soon. 4.  Marked. 5.  Flowers.

DOWN:  1.  In a cave. 2.  A river. 3.  To unclose. 4.  The second dignitary of a diocese. 5.  A mistake. 6.  High. 7.  An affirmative. 8.  A prefix. 9.  In a shop.

CYRIL DEANE.

DOUBLE CROSS-WORD ACROSTIC.

THE WHOLE.