A. + B.

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN SEPTEMBER NUMBER.

CLASSICAL DOUBLE ACROSTIC.—­Virgil—­Horace. 1.  VoucH. 2.  IagO. 3.  RoaR. 4.  GeorgiA. 5.  IoniC. 6.  LittlE.

NAMES OF AUTHORS ENIGMATICALLY EXPRESSED.—­1.  Poe. 2.  Defoe. 3.  Hawthorne. 4.  Prescott. 5.  Hay. 6.  Cooper 7.  Sparks. 8.  Lever. 9.  Lover. 10.  Boswell.

ENIGMA.—­Bridle.

WHAT IS IT.—­A switch.

CHARADE.—­Nightingale; night, in(n), gale.

CENTRAL SYNCOPATIONS.—­1.  Mouth, moth. 2.  Carve, cave. 3.  Maxim, maim. 4.  Cabin, Cain. 5.  Coronet, cornet.

THREE DIAMONDS.—­

T                C                 I
G I G            A L I             U N A
I.  T I B E R   II.   C L O V E   III.   I N D I A
G E M            I V Y             A I M
R                E                 A

PICTORIAL ANAGRAM.—­“Procrastination is the thief of time.”

INCOMPLETE SENTENCES.—­1.  Fair, fare. 2.  Rite, right, write. 3.  Maid, made. 4.  Reads, reeds. 5.  Beats, beets. 6.  Bawl, ball. 7.  Mien, mean. 8.  Fain, feign, fane.

RIDDLE.—­River.

POSITIVES AND COMPARATIVES.—­1.  Flat, flatter. 2.  Ham, hammer. 3.  Gross, grocer. 4.  Lad, ladder. 5.  On, honor. 6.  Eye, ire. 7.  Poe, pore. 8.  Pie, pyre. 9.  Mart, martyr.

DOUBLE WORD-SQUARE.—­G O N E
                     A V E R
                     L E E R
                     E N D S

HIDDEN NAMES.—­In each sentence, take the first letter of each word. 1.  Alma. 2.  Helen. 3.  Arthur. 4.  Mabel. 5.  Harry. 6.  Ethel. 7.  Ernest. 8.  Edith. 9.  Fred. 10.  Stella. 11.  Edwin. 12.  Grace. 13.  Frank.

EASY CROSS-WORD ENIGMA.—­Dictionary.

REBUS.—­“Can storied urn or animated bust
         Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?”

DOUBLE ACROSTIC.—­Victoria-Disraeli. 1.  ViviD. 2.  I, I. 3.  CorpS. 4. 
ToweR. 5.  OperA. 6.  RarE. 7.  IdyL. 8.  AlighierI.

ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE AUGUST NUMBER were received, before August 20, from Eva D., “Patrolman Gillooley,” John C. Robertson, “Three Sisters,” “So So,” Mary C. Warren, May Bleecker, Daisy Briggs, George P. Dravo, “Doctor,” Louisa F. Riedel, C.A.K., Bessie L. Barnes, Nessie E. Stevens, Southwick C. Briggs, Mary Louise Hood, Olive Mecklem, Edwin E. Ganegues, Anna Halliday, Edith McKeever, M.W.C., Lewis G. Davis, Bessie Hard, Edith Herkimer, Nina Riker, Marnie Riker; Jerome Buck, Jr.; Nellie Emerson, “Soft Soap,” Jessie W. Cox, Fleta M. Holman, “Robbie, Irvie, and Daisy,” Hild Sterling; Edith and Marion W.; Mary H. Bradley, Alice L. Booth, Willie Gray, Mamie, “Nantucket” Harry; F.M.J., Jr.; Jennie R. Beach, Maud L. Smith, Alice Lanigan, Walter Stockdale, Rowen S. McClure, Anita R. Newcomb, Bertie Jackson, M.G.A., Cora Rawson Ryder, “Apelles and his Papa,” “Fritters,” George H. Williams, Richard Weld, Winsor Weld, Georgine C. Schnitzspahn, “Rosalind,” H.B.  Ayers,