The Wizard gave us one of the best contests we ever had. Here are the answers: 1. Gilles de Retz, Marquis de Laval; Henry the Eighth. 2. Laughing Water (heroine in Longfellow's "Hiawatha") 3. Sir Henry Percie or Percy. 4. "A Merry Interlude," by John Heywood. 5. Lilly the astronomer. 6. Madagascar; Luna Island. 7. Bacon. 8. Slug; Devilfish. 9. Swallow; Swallow-tailed kite. 10. Shoe-bird. 11. Aye-aye; Ai; Horse, because it "neighs." 12. Book-spider or book-worm. 13. Dollar or goldfish. 14. Richard Steele, Thackeray's "Henry Esmond." 15. An old shepherd near Cleone, Greece, who was kind to Hercules, to repay which the hero destroyed the Nemean lion. 16. Don Quixote. 17. Clark. 18. Aaron Burr. 19. General Gates. 20. Poe (Po). 21. Holmes. 22. Marcus Terentius Varro. 23. An Irish secret society, organized in 1843. 24. To be burned as a heretic. 25. Pierre de Ronsard. 26. Snow ball. 27. Scotland. 28. A great churchbell at Lincoln Cathedral. 29. Prince Houssain, "Arabian Nights." 30. Gustavus Adolphus. 31. Earwig; Handcuff; Ear-ring. 32. Smolensk on the Dneiper. 33. George the Fourth. 34. René of Naples. 35. Ticks. 36. Jack Cade. 37. Lady Berkeley. 38. John the Painter: Silas Deane. 39. John Walter, of the London _Times_, Nov. 28, 1814; invented by Koenig. 40. New Orleans. 41. Mrs. Howe, wife of Lord Howe. 42. Edward Longshanks. 43. Richard Cromwell. 44. God of Peace and Pleasure among the ancient Saxons. 45. The initial letters of the twenty-two chapters of the Book of Revelation. Questions that proved most difficult were 15, 20, 21, 24, 34, and 45. Only six found the 45. Many gave as its answer the title-page of a dictionary, and enough A's down the first column to fill the number; but this would not be a fair question, because, as put to the Wizard and to you, it did not cover all of the thing required. Frisco could not mean San Francisco, because in the puzzle there was no apostrophe showing that part of the word had been cut off. One solver answered correctly all save four of the questions. His name is Philip Castner; he is thirteen, and he lives in Philadelphia. His prize is $10. Two others did almost as well, and hence large second prizes are given them. One is Mae Sterner, of Pittsburg, and the other Edward L. Lyon, of Oswego, N. Y. Their prizes are $4 each. Third prizes of $1 each are given to Edward L. Wharton, New Jersey; Sarah Hodgson, Tennessee; Albert Walton, Illinois; Raymond Tilley and Francis C. Pequignot, Pennsylvania; and Mortimer J. McChesney, West Virginia. Fourth prizes, half-dollars, are sent to J. Benners King, Sydney W. Stern, Elsie Goddard, Ruth W. Balmer, J. Lawrence Hyde, Marion Miller, Daniel Llewellyn, and Katie Bartholow. The Helping Hand.