Diagonals, from left to right, a part of the year. Seven words. Fill the blanks in the sentence with appropriate words; and written under each other in the order given, they will give the diagonal. As ---- is more abundant than ---- in this season when Love ---- her altar fires anew, may this joy go through the ---- year, bearing you constant ----; so that, looking back at its close, you can say: "1878 ---- to have been one prolonged ----." J. P. =DOUBLE-PUZZLE.= CENTRAL SYNCOPATIONS. 1. Syncopate mad, and leave what soldiers often make. 2. Syncopate part of a house, and leave to move. 3. Syncopate speed, and leave anger. 4. Syncopate to soak, and leave a gait. 5. Syncopate a river, and leave a rank. 6. Syncopate a particle, and leave a laugh. 7. Syncopate openings, and leave farming implements. 8. Syncopate baked clay, and leave fastenings. The letters that have been syncopated, read downward, will make two words which you must find in the following CROSS-WORD ENIGMA. 1. In brook, but not in sea; 2. In slave, but not in free; 3. In lose, but not in find; 4. In heed, but not in mind; 5. In barn, but not in shed; 6. In black, but not in red; 7. In hill, but not in mound; 8. In held, but not in bound. What's the answer?--can you say? 'Tis something boys much like to play. CYRIL DEANE. =GEOGRAPHICAL TRANSPOSITIONS.= 1. ---- ---- a good post at ----. 2. Did you notice the carved ---- in that old cathedral door in ---- ? 3. ---- ---- with pleasure from Geneva, for ----. 4. I took great ---- to witness these national games, when in ----. 5. I found ---- gold in a mine in ----. 6. I could stand ---- in the entrance to the cave in ----. 7. I have ---- interest in ---- than in any other foreign city. B. =OMNIBUS WORD.= In a word of five letters find: 1st. An hour-glass puzzle, the central letters of which, read downward, signify to perform again; horizontally, a symbol often used in writing, a beverage, a vowel, a performance, to provide. 2d. A word-square containing a unit, a vehicle, an epoch. 3d. Words to each of which one letter may be prefixed so as to form another word: a preposition, an animal; a verb, a weed; a study, a vehicle; a part of the body, a sign of sorrow. 4th. Words to fill appropriately the blanks in each stanza below, by prefixing a letter to the first word, when found to form the second, and by prefixing a letter to the second to form the third: I would not heed so small an ----, When dealing with one of his ----, Or of my temper leave a ----. We asked him in; he sat and ---- Of the ripe fruit at such a ----, He lowered well the heaped up ----. H. H. D. =ACCIDENTAL HIDINGS.= In these quotations find five girls' names, without transposing any letters. "Of such as wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign."--_Gray._ "Where olive-leaves were twinkling in every wind that blew, There sat beneath the pleasant shade a damsel of Peru."_Bryant._