4. Systematic, phlegmatic, chromatic, acroamatic, diplomatic, pragmatic. 5. Rock-dock-lock-clock. 6. S A L A D A L I C E L I V R E A C R I D D E E D S 7. “Practice makes perfect.” 8. Lance. The first five perfect solutions were received from:-- Elizabeth Warren, Harry J. Sanford, Eleanor M. Lavine, Mary Folsom Pierce, John L. Crawford. * * * * * UNBOUNDED STATES. The names of these states are mixed up. Can you straighten them? Nisniscow. Naidnai. Nitmanose. Nicolraaif. Nazoair. Naaiiousl. --Charles C. Lynde. * * * * * THE MENAGERIE. In the following paragraph there are the names of twenty animals--spelled backwards. It accidentally happens that the lumber now occasionally found in oil regions every six or seven years is such that no Occidental country produces. I am sure editors so agree. So omitting any explanation, I merely state the fact. Tippoo-Tib bargains for all of it. Overflowing with oil it is always in a bad muss. Oporto is the place to which it is shipped. When it arrives whole machines are made from it, giving, I presume, employment to many persons who are constantly on the go during business hours, the parents and children working side by side. All sorts of religionists there mix, Ebionites even being found among them, who strive and fret to make converts to their faith, and they, as those at the Po let names weigh more than deeds. I would not say this did I know it to be false. --R. E. Williams._ * * * * * DIAMOND. 1, a consonant; 2, a serpent; 3, juvenility; 4, consumed; 5, a consonant. --Lillian C----. * * * * * A NOVEL ACROSTIC. If the words indicated below be written one beneath another, the finals will spell a national holiday, and the initial letters will form the plural of something which is used on that day. A leaf of blank paper. A dye. A kind of ancient poetry. Part of the head. An animal. A fresh water fish. Likewise. A leader. A boy’s name spelled backwards. A large bird. A small brook. Cunning. --Katherine D. Salisbury. [Illustration: WITH THE PUBLISHER] WITH THE PUBLISHER YOUTH An Illustrated Monthly Journal for Boys and Girls Edited by HERBERT LEONARD COGGINS =Single Copies 10 Cents= =Annual Subscription $1.00= Sent postpaid to any address. Subscriptions can begin at any time and must be paid in advance The publishers should be promptly informed of any change of address Subscribers who have not received their magazine regularly will please notify the publishers Remittances may be made in the way most convenient to the sender, and should be addressed to THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY 923 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. _THE NEW DEPARTMENT_