=ACCIDENTAL HIDINGS.=

Find concealed in the following quotations three names for

METRICAL COMPOSITIONS.

“As hope and fear alternate chase
Our course through life’s uncertain race.”—­Scott.

“Trained to the chase, his eagle eye
The ptarmigan in snow could spy.”—­Scott.

            “Well-dressed, well-bred,
  Well-equipaged, is ticket good enough.”—­Cowper.

Find concealed in the following quotations three names for

PORTIONS OF TIME.

“From better habitations spurned,
Reluctant dost thou rove.”—­Goldsmith.

“As ever ye heard the greenwood dell
On morn of June one warbled swell.”—­Queen’s Wake.

  “Each spire, each tower and cliff sublime,
  Was hooded in the wreathy rime.”—­Hogg.

=MELANGE.=

1.  Behead a plant, and leave a friend. 2.  Curtail the plant, and give a pungent spice. 3.  Syncopate the plant, and find an envelope. 4.  Behead the spice, and leave affection. 5.  Syncopate and transpose the friend, and find learning. 6.  Behead the envelope, and leave above. 7.  Syncopate and transpose the envelope, and give the inner part. 8.  Transpose above, and find to ramble. 9.  Syncopate to ramble, and leave a wild animal.  ISOLA.

  =EASY CLASSICAL ACROSTIC.=

  My first is in deaf, but not in hear;
  My second in doe, and also in deer;
  My third is in May, but not in June;
  My fourth is in song, but not in tune;
  My fifth is in house, and also in shed;
  My sixth is in cot, but not in bed;
  My seventh is in chair, but not in stool;
  My eighth is in lake, but not in pool;
  My ninth is in pencil, and also in ink;
  My tenth is in blue, but not in pink;
  My eleventh is in dish, but not in pan;
  My whole was a Greek and a well-spoken man. 
  ANNAN.

=ENIGMA.=

I am a common adage frequently used by good housewives, and am composed of twenty-two letters.

My 9 15 3 8 16 22 is pertaining to the place of birth.  My 10 20 19 14 are things used to cook with.  My 6 1 5 is a domestic animal.  My 11 21 is a preposition.  My 18 17 13 12 is to appear.  My 7 4 2 is a pronoun.  BESSIE.

=ANAGRAMS.=

Each anagram is formed from a single word, and a clue to the meaning of that word is given after its anagram.

1.  A dry shop; rambling composition. 2.  I clean rum; belonging to number. 3.  Poet in dread; the act of making inroads. 4.  Oxen are set; clears from blame. 5.  Gin danger; displacing.

CYRIL DEANE.

=PICTORIAL PUZZLE.=

[Illustration:  What animal, besides the dog and cat is to be found in the above picture?]

=EASY DIAMOND PUZZLE.=

1, A vowel. 2.  A fairy. 3.  Change. 4.  Not many. 5.  A consonant.

WILLIE F.

=CHARADE.=

I.