Smalley, Annetta Reese, Anna May Peaslee, Florence Langton, Bessie P., Howard Butcher, Jr. * * * * * MR. CULMER BARNES contributes to the “Letter-box” this month a timely picture: [Illustration: “JUST MY LUCK! LAST WINTER ’TWAS STRAW HATS ALL THE TIME, AND NOW I GET NOTHIN’ BUT FUR GOODS!”] THE RIDDLE-BOX. ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE JULY NUMBER. NUMERICAL ENIGMA. “Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.” _Stephen Decatur._ CUBE. 1 to 2, mother; 2 to 6, repose; 5 to 6, needle; 1 to 5, Marion; 3 to 4, eating; 4 to 8, greedy; 7 to 8, nimbly; 3 to 7, ensign; 1 to 3, mite; 2 to 4, rung; 6 to 8, easy; 5 to 7, noon. ANAGRAMS. 1. Don Quixote. 2. Oliver Twist. 3. The Virginians. 4. Guy Mannering. 5. Old Curiosity Shop. 6. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 7. The Woman in White. 8. The Last Days of Pompeii. 9. The Vicar of Wakefield. 10. Quentin Durward. PI. “Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.” _Izaak Walton._ METAMORPHOSES. 1. Cow; row, rot, rat. 2. Hard; harm, farm, form, fort, sort, soft. 3. Left; lest, vest, vast, east. 4. Hit; nit, not, now, low. 5. Long; lone, lose, lost, lest, west. RHOMBOIDS. I. Across: 1. Venom. 2. Damon. 3. Bales. 4. Resin. 5. Strop. II. Across. 1. Nabob. 2. Mason. 3. Danes. 4. Remit. 5. Donor.—CHARADE. Par-son-age. ZIGZAG. Independence Day. Cross-words: 1. Ivy. 2. aNt. 3. liD. 4. fEd. 5. Put. 6. nEd. 7. paN. 8. aDd. 9. End. 10. aNd. 11. roC. 12. lEd. 13. Dig. 14. mAy. 15. laY. HOUR-GLASS. Centrals, straw-hats; from 1 to 2, saltwater; from 3 to 4, stopwatch. Cross-words: 1. Spinsters. 2. Apitpat. 3 Largo. 4. Tap. 5. W. 6. Aha. 7. Trait. 8. Centime. 9. Handsomer. TO OUR PUZZLERS: In sending answers to puzzles, sign only your initials or use a short assumed name; but if you send a complete list of answers you may sign your full name. Answers should be addressed to ST. NICHOLAS “Riddle-box,” care of THE CENTURY CO., 33 East Seventeenth street, New York City. ANSWERS TO ALL THE PUZZLES IN THE MAY NUMBER were received, before May 20, from Maud E. Palmer—Annette Fiske—Philip S. Fiske—“B. L. Z. Bub, No. 1”—Maggie T. Turrill—Paul Reese—San Anselmo Valley—Arthur and Bertie Knox—“Betsy Trotwood”—B. L. Z. Bub, No. 2—“May and 79”—Sallie Viles—The Melvilles—Blithedale—Mamie R.—Madge and the Dominie—Carrie S. Seaver and Alice M. Young—The Spencers—“Francesca”—“Clifford and Coco”—Bertha Z. Gerhard—“Sisters Twain”—“R. U. Pert”—“Hazel, Laurel, and Olive”—“Theo. Ther.”