In each of the following sentences a word is concealed, the definition to which is given in the same sentence. When rightly selected and placed one below the other in the order here given, the primals and finals will each form the name of a distinguished poet who was born in August. The cross-words are all of the same length. 1. It is hard, in essays, to avoid assurance. 2. Mary has gone to Salem; Bell is home, and the latter will adorn the book she is composing. 3. In an oration, a legate gave the detail of reasons for making it. 4. Clare hears a little rumor that there will be a recital this evening. 5. This incident I call the same as that in the other story. 6. On Mount Carmel I temporized with one of the friars. 7. When I look now in glyphs, I feel their beauty understandingly. CYRIL DEANE. CUBE. 1 . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . 8 From 1 to 2, royal; from 2 to 4, a long-tailed species of hawk, found in Europe; from 3 to 4, a dealer in precious stones; from 1 to 3, eternal; from 5 to 6, a two-masted vessel; from 6 to 8, becoming circular; from 7 to 8, a method of securing a good draught in chimneys; from 5 to 7, the name of one of the three persons thrown into the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar; from 1 to 5, the flower-deluce; from 2 to 6, an affected cast of countenance; from 4 to 8, a kind of seaweed; from 3 to 7, to scourge. “ROSE MADDER.” BEHEADINGS. 1. Behead withered and leave part of the head. 2. Behead dry and leave to free from. 3. Behead flexible and leave a demon. 4. Behead to sulk and leave to unfold. 5. Behead surrounded by and leave in the center of. 6. Behead joyful and leave a young boy. 7. Behead an ornament worn by Jewish priests and leave an edge. 8. Behead a short piece of iron and leave to be ill. 9. Behead the fraction of an ounce and leave an ancient instrument of war. 10. Behead a character in the play of “Othello” and leave gone. The words described are of equal length. The beheaded letters, read in the order here given, will spell the name of one of Washington Irving’s earliest works. “FRANCESCO AND CO.” ZIGZAG. Each of the words described contains the same number of letters, and the zigzag, beginning at the upper left-hand letter, will spell an important event that occurred on August 5, 1856.