silhouettes by Mr. Champney. Messrs.
Lockwood, Brooks & Co., of Boston, are the publishers.

SIX SINNERS, by Campbell Wheaton, has to do chiefly with one of the six
dear little "sinners," Dora Maynard, whom girl readers will love right
off. It tells all about her school-days, her pranks and fun, her
troubles and how they were overcome, and tells it in a way so lively
and absorbing that you will want to read all of it at one sitting. The
book is clearly printed in large type, and is published by Messrs.
Putnam, New York.

THE RIDDLE-BOX

EASY DOUBLE CROSS-WORD ACROSTIC.

The initials and finals, read downward, form the names of two kinds of
trees.

1. The width of a vessel. 2. A mountain of Crete. 3. A Tom-boy. 4. An
inclosure. 5. To harbor.

WILLIE PETTINOS.

SQUARE-WORD.

1. A governor. 2. To join. 3. Flexible. 4. A girl's name. 5. Quick
dances.

L.

NUMERICAL PUZZLE.

I am a word of five letters, the sum of which is 512.

My 1 x my 3 = 1/20 of my 5;
My 2 x my 4 = 1/5 of my 3;
My 5 / my 1 = my 3 x 20.

SEDGWICK.

HIDDEN ACROSTIC.

At the top of a mountain,
Within a clear light;
In the midst of a fountain,
At edge of the night;
In field and in meadow,
In sunshine and shadow,
On land and on sea,
At the end of the earth,
Or in air, we may be.

Now put us together,
And, if you guess right,
You'll discover a water-fall
Sparkling and bright.

W.P.D.

EASY DECAPITATIONS.

1. Behead a kind of sword, and leave a fluid for burning. 2. Behead a
sharp-pointed weapon, and leave a fruit. 3. Behead to touch, and leave
a kind of fish. 4. Behead a vehicle used in winter, and leave a shelf
5. Behead a kind of deer, and leave a game that boys play. 6. Behead an
ancient war implement, and leave a unit. 7. Behead animals of a common
kind, and leave a sort of grain. 8. Behead to pull, and leave sore. 9.
Behead the name of a vessel, and leave a narrow passage.

WALTER A.

TRANSPOSITIONS.

1. Change artful into a confusion. 2. Change a Persian king into a
mixture. 3. Change a cutter into listeners. 4. Change a cheat into
musicians. 5. Change repaired into healed. 6. Change a drink into a
class embracing many species.

CYRIL DEANE.

CHARADE.

In war, and in council, my first oft appears.
My second is that which my first often wears.
Very strong is my last; 'tis a bark, not a bite;
That from which it is taken is solid, not light.
Thr