1. Pleasing. 2. The ocean. 3. "A little house full of meat, with no door to go in and eat." 4. A bar of wood. 5. A thought. 6. A tribe. 7. Pleased.
The initials and finals, read downward, spell the names of two powerful countries. DEL.
My 3 4 5 is to obstruct. My 1 4 7 is to bend under weight. My 2 4 6 is a carriage.
Place the letters in the positions indicated by the figures of the diagram, and read therefrom my whole, which is the name of a large island. H. H. D.
ONE word taken from each sentence in succession will form the answer.
1. "Likeness begets love, yet proud men hate one another." 2. "They that hide can find." 3. "Trade knows neither friends nor kindred." 4. "It is better to be happy than wise." 5. "Gold may be bought too dear." 6. "If you would have a good servant, take neither a kinsman nor a friend." 7. "A gift long waited for is sold, not given." 8. "It's time to sit when the oven comes to dough." 9. "Only that which is honestly got is gain." 10. "Prudent people always ask the price ere they purchase." 11. "Good advice is never out of place." 12. "Friendship is the perfection of love." CYRIL DEANE.
A word that means to cleanse, behead, And leave of cloth a kind; Behead again, and leave a seed Canaries love to find; Behead again, and it will leave An animal behind.
Transpose my first, and it becomes A set of antics gay; Then curtail twice, and leave what oft Projects into a bay; Curtail again, and leave what boys Will put in mother's way.
Transpose again, and find a word To horses may apply; Curtail it twice, and leave a step That one can measure by; Behead it, and you have a card That often counts for high.
Transpose again, and bring to light A well-known proper name; And in the very center find A serpent known to fame, That caused the death of one,--a queen,-- Who laid to beauty claim. H. H. D.
A member of a legislative body; a plant; new; periods of time; to allow, reversed; a preposition; a consonant. A. C. CRETT.
A COMMON ADAGE.--"Well begun is half done."
LITERARY ENIGMA.-- "Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose." _Goldsmith's "Deserted Village."_
1. Euripides. 2. Tasso. 3. Southey. 4. Hume. 5. Irving. 6. Carlyle. 7. Wordsworth. 8. Hawthorne. 9. Lyell. 10. Davy. 11. Emerson. 12. Mann.