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. Ganégues, 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, "Oriole," Fred S. Cowperthwait, Benj. W. Mannus, Lizzie Thurber, "The Raven"; Horace White and Grant Squires; Neils E. Hansen, "Winnie," Chas. H. Stout, Kitty P. Norton, Laurie T. Sanders; "Box 325, St. Thomas," Annie J. Buzzard, Harry Bennett, Jennie Kimball, Dycie Warden, Margaret McF. Lukens, "Ratie and Katie," "S.G., and P.M.," Ann Hulme Wilson, Eddie Vultee, Dolly, Jessie Van Brunt, Willie R.C. Corson, Lincoln Cromwell, T.J. De la Hunt, "Stock-broker," Bessie C. Barney, Bessie Taylor, Willie F. Floyd, and Louise G. Hinsdale.
Grace Rosevelt, Amy Growly, Ellen Smith, "B.Y.G.H. Caroni and Wife," "V. and A.," and O.C. Turner, answered correctly all the puzzles in the August number.
Gladys H. Wilkinson, of Manchester, England answered several of the puzzles in the July number, but his letter did not come in time for adding his name to the July list. The delay was not his fault, so the credit due is now given.
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