B.

ANAGRAMS.

In the following sentence, the words printed in capitals are anagrams of the words that should occupy the same places, so as to make sense.  Thus:  BATTLE-SCREENS is a compound-word that takes the place of another to be formed of the same letters arranged differently; the right word, in this example, being “center-table;” but each of the other collections of capitals is an anagram of but a single word.

I saw TENT SUDS by the BATTLE-SCREENS, puzzling over THE MICA MATS, and perplexed about MANY ROOTS.

C.T.

REBUS.

A two line quotation from Shakspeare.

[Illustration]

COMPLETE DIAMOND.

The centrals of the diamond are each the same word, of five letters, spelling the name of a Frenchman who became notorious during the great French Revolution.  The remainder of the diamond is made of words formed from the letters of his name.  The diamond incloses a hollow square, either of whose perpendiculars or horizontals, read backward or forward, will spell a word; and, reading from the middle letter to either end of either of the centrals, a word will be spelled, which, when read backward, will spell another word.  Make the Diamond.  TREBONIUS.

EASY AMPUTATED QUOTATION.

Two lines from Tennyson.  Each word is beheaded and curtailed.

-RU- -EART- -R- -OR- -HA- -ORONET--N- -IMPL- -AIT- -HA- -ORMA- -LOO-

C. L. D.

EASY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

    My first is in bee, but not in fly;
    My second in moon, but not in sky;
    My third is in scare, but not in fright;
    My fourth is in top, and also in kite;
    My fifth is in broad, but not in wide;
    My sixth is in ocean, but not in tide;
    My whole is all New England’s pride.

H. A. S.

ANAGRAM WORD-SQUARES.

From the letters composing each of the following four sentences make a word-square:  1.  Doctor, do Irish histories err? 2.  Let their hotel gardener grin. 3.  Post shall need man’s sympathy. 4.  Hurrah, Peg has the gallant pup!  The meaning of the words composing the four squares, in the proper order of succession, are as follows: 

I. 1.  A band of singers. 2.  A wandering troop of barbarians. 3.  A plant with a sweet-smelling root. 4.  A simpleton. 5.  Is quiet.

II. 1.  A spelled number. 2.  A lazy person. 3.  A dazzling light. 4.  A marsh bird. 5.  A river of England.

III. 1.  Profundity. 2.  To try. 3.  A sacred song. 4.  A claw. 5.  Poems.

IV. 1.  A noise that no animal but man can make. 2.  The name of a letter of the Greek alphabet. 3.  Part of a shoe. 4.  A town of Belgium. 5.  Deer.