II.

"REST, silver butterflies, your quivering wings; Alight, ye beetles, from your airy rings;

Ye painted moths, your gold-eyed plumage furl, Bow your wide horns, your spiral trunks uncurl; Glitter, ye glowworms, on your mossy beds; Descend, ye spiders, on your lengthened threads; Slide here, ye hornèd snails, with varnished shells; Ye bee-nymphs listen, in your waxen cells.

And snowdrops cold, and blue-eyed harebells
blend

Their tender tears, as o'er the streams they bend;
The love-sick violet, and the primrose pale,
Bow their sweet heads, and whisper to the gale;
With secret sighs the virgin lily droops,

And jealous cowslips hang their tawny cups."

1. A conjunction.

2. Close of day.

3. Where Mungo Park first saw the Niger.
4. To enrich.

5. The confessor and adviser of Marie de

Medicis.

6. Denunciation published.

7. A late King of Poland.

III.

"ON earth let not thy vision rest,
Nor worldly objects prize;

But wing thy flight among the blest,
Nor live below the skies."

1. A town of Germany.

2. A town of North Wales.

3. Naomi.

4. The birthplace of Democritus.

5. A reflecting lamp.

6. An ancient musical instrument.

7. The son of Cyrus.

IV.

"SHE sang in Italy for fame, in France for charity, and in England for money."

1. A mineral poison.

2. One of the early Roman Emperors.

3. A short groan.

4. A Spanish poet.

5. A young lion.

6. A mountain near Troy.

7. A noted printer of the 15th century.
8. An Italian poet of the 18th century.

V.

"OH! blue is the face of the glad spring-tide sky, And green are the young larch that under it lie, And purple the hills 'neath the bright summer sun, And silver the clear brooks that laugh as they run ; And such are the hues on life's summer I see, As I look through the gloaming, and think, love, on thee,

Oh! scarlet and gold are the woodlands to-day, Where autumn has clad them in kingly array; And white is the world, with its covering of snow, Cold and still with the spring-life kept warmly below.

And these are the hues of life's winter I see, As I look through the gloaming, and think, love, on thee."

1. The first word.

2. The largest of the Sandwich Islands.
3. Where Hercules killed the Hydra.

4. Green and brown.

5. A town of Spain.
6. The bee of France.
7. The second word.

VI.

"PRAY do not mock me;

I am a very foolish old man,

Fourscore and upwards; and, to deal plainly,
I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
Methinks I should know you,

Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant
What place this is; and all the skill I have
Remembers not these garments; nor I know not
Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me,
For as I am a man, I think this lady
To be my child."

1. A small town of Arabia Petræa.
2. The Christian name of a distinguished

architect.

3. A military historian, 19th century.
4. A hot cake.

5. An attractive stone.
6. Pertaining to funerals.
7. The son of Zechariah.

8. A town of Spain.

VII. [TRIPLE ACROSTIC.

SPOONS.

"Good, Bad, and Indifferent."

1. A temporary obstruction.

2. An imaginary model of perfection.
3. Reverse the letters, it is useful to a
shoemaker.

4. Twenty-seven in a foreign language.
5. A natural ebullition.

6. Copied again.

VIII.

"THE maiden's sword protects the royal crown, Beneath her sacred care the lilies safely bloom."

1. An animal.

2. A town of Mexico.
3. A dignitary.

4. A town on the Weida.
5. Useful to a deaf person.
6. A flourish of trumpets.

7. A boundary of land.
8. Shooting out from a centre.
9. An earthen pitcher.