I am a word of seven letters. My 5, 6, 3, is seen in winter; my 3, 4, 5, 6, is a Swedish name; my 4, 5, 6, 3, is a useful grain; my 4, 5, 5, is passion; my 7, 4, 2, a member of the body; my 3, 4, 7, an epoch; my 2, 5, 6, 3, troublesome animals; my 2, 5, 6, 1, an ore; and my whole is now a seat of 75. I am a single syllable, that shows unte your mind Anything without a meaning, or a meaning ill defined; But when you behead me, two syllables I grow, And what they mean, dear reader, I hope you'll never know.-Trip. 76. A word that silence serves to name 'Tis backwards, forwards, all the same. 77. Some can't one character preserve→ I brave the storm that rends the trees, Contented in a tub: LAGO. Now twice behead me, if you please. 78. a. Pertaining to the fields, but a stranger to the town. b. A Shakesperian character-one, too, of some renown. d. A well-known bird, by eager sportsmen eft as c. Of wisdom emblematic, although I am curtailed. sailed. e. That which most men wish to do if they would thrive in trade. f. One who in walls monastic of his brethren chief is made. g. He who the youthful mind so cautiously should train. h. A lamentation sad-a poem penned in medi pathetic strain. Two towns in England these eight words express, If finals and initials you should right ques. 79. a. One of the Fates. b. A Trojan prince. c. A town in China. d. A mountain in Thessaly. The initials will name a celebrated Roman, and the finals an Egyptian deity.-ELIZABETH H. 80. There is a bony little bird, 81. Aloft, in every ship, you'll find me soon, Reversed, I am a jester, or buffoon.-LAGO. second's sway, No sooner kills than re-creates, all in one summer's day. 1. A word to merchants pleasant: If deftly done, O Crispin! May my blessing round thee hang. 2. To laud thee in the dog-days, May be done without pretence; If you like not this acrostic, 3. If you love me let your crinoline, ISLAVERNAY. 89.-CONUNdrums. 1. Name the most refined of belles. 2. What fish does a man "out of luck" wish for? 3. When is a stable like an action anticipated? 4. When is a dress like a boy tossed by a mad bull? 5. Why are pickpockets like cricket-balls? 6. Why is the "Warrior" like a certain church benefice? 7. Why may country tailors be considered "great guns?" 8. Why is a man with both eyes like a man who has lost an eye? CARACTACUS. 3 What cans are imported largely from Spain? 4. What cans may be seen floating on North American rivers? 5. What cans are only visible in the Atlantic? 6. What cans may be found in cathedrals? 7. What cans are musical? 8. What cans are chiefly in request at night? 9. What cans are conspicuous at public dinners? 10. What cans are often emptied by teetotallers? 11. What cans are covered with feathers? 12. What cans may sometimes interfere with your de(s)sert? 13. What cans are found only among savages? 14. What cans are for awhile ill-used, and after wards change their character? 15. What cans are the most enchanting? 16. What cans have been hung over the heads of sovereigns? 17. What cans form snug berths for churchmen? 18. What cans have the Swiss a number of, the Chinese but a single specimen, and the English none? 19. To what cans are smaller cans indispensable? 20. What can is considered the most vulgar? 21. What can is never subject to leakage? 22. What can is edible? 23. What can is used in ships and at elections? 24. What can is suggestive of subterranean fire ? 25. What can was beloved by Apollo? 26. What can was worshipped by the Egyptians?27. What can is esteemed only by Papists! 28. What can is used in manufacturing saints? 29. What can is never stationary? 30. What can may be seen in Wales only? 31. What can exists both in sea and sky? 32. What can is used in protecting a town? 33. What can is never full?-CARACTACUS.. 1 HISTORICAL MENTAL PICTURES. 93. The night is fine and clear. Earth's winter mantle adorns her-a mantle of the softest texture, of the purest and most dazzling white. It covers the bare arms of the trees, it enfolds the hedges, and spreads itself over the fields in a thick carpet of velvet pile. The strong walls of a castle stand out in bold relief, and the tents of an encampment may easily be seen. Dark objects are moving to and fro before the tents; their steady, measured pace, proclaims them to be guards on duty. Four figures emerge from the castle; these evidently wish to be unseen, for they are clothed from head to foot in garments as white as the snow on the ground. They noiselessly pursue their way, and leave the camp behind, without challenge or hindrance. They cross a frozen river, then walk swiftly on for a long distance. One of the party is clearly becoming fatigued those horses are a welcome sight- quickly they mount and gallop away.-A. DE YOUNGE. 94. Both old and young alike its praises name. -191. Mistrust.-192. An advertisement-il A richly-furnished apartment. On a velvet couch Fancy-work-194. Love in idleness.-195, Broadlies the body of a man, magnificently dressed in side, roadside. 196. Budget. -197. Cha kingly garments. The rigid features and death-hue-198. Sara H, PsychE, EcuadoR, NectoR, S on the countenance plainly tell us that life has EpiC, RooK -Spenser, Herrick.-199. Lealso departed, and with that life has also departed line of beauty, line of all happiness from the inconsolable mourner who line, railway line, telegraph line, line of poetry, equisa so franticly embraces the corpse, talking to it, and line of battle, lines in the palm of the lavishing upon it the most tender endearments. line of ancestry. 200. Mar, ram, ar m She determinedly resists all persuasions and en--201. Serape, crape, rape, ape.-202. Petrarc treaties to leave the apartment, or suffer the body 203. Support.-204. a. Councillors; . to be removed. The day wanes-evening, night, Uncle); c. May B.; d. PastimB; e. Elek passes-the faint, cold light of the morning's dawn, f. TalE; 9. Illa, Zanoni); h. Testl and the warm rays of the mid-day sun, still find. (D)oveR; j. (PrinteR, reversed), R, P-2 the same despairing, weeping figure, kneeling beside that velvet couch.-A. DE YOUNGE. 95. mouse ear. 206. "Words are but air," and yet a. Blue Canterbury bell; b. Mignonette; c. Swee Sultan; d. Pansy, or Heartsease; e. Stramoni, f. Pheasant's eye, or Flos Adonis; g. Flax; & A merchant in his counting-house, busy with Peruvian heliotrope; i. Mallow; j. China As invoices and ledgers. His calculations seem dis-k. Venus's looking-glass; l. China, or Indian pat turbed by something unusual going on in the street. m. Sunflower; n. White poppy; 6. Shang He raises his head to listen. Presently, in rushes a saintfoin; p. Sweet William; g. Myosotis, 4 man-servant, who stammers out some strange information, gesticulating in a most excited manner. His master looks incredulous; but something extraordinary has certainly happened. The servant pulls him by the sleeve, and draws him to the window. And what is the sight? A beautiful-207. This new feature, at least in these pars, girl, in a curious foreign dress, wandering up and down the dingy street, followed by a crowd of people. Her eyes roam from face to face, as if in search of someone; and she seems to be constantly ejaculating the same word in a longing and weary tone. The merchant sees her from his window. Ah! he knows her! He runs out into the street. Her eyes say, "It is he!" and she faints in his arms.-A. DE YOUNGE. CRYPTOGRAPHS. TRANSLATION OF PRIZE CRYPTOGRAPH, No. 190. enigmatic lore, is very amusing, if only to lookand exciting when we gain the least clue to key, which little instrument is only granted those possessing patience and perseverance.—* Laughter -Not to laugh when nature promp but a knavish, hypocritical way of making a tat of one's face. 209 Suppose that I were you, Suppose that you were me, Suppose we each were somebody else, My whole in love or war Is ever fair reckoned.-Stratagem. -211. "It is remarkable that scarcely had English language acquired a form which least intelligible in the present day, than a por the highest class rose to make it the veice af s This was in the fourteenth century; but it is w10) a later period we have at present to do." CLASS AWARDS. ADDRESS: 23, MIDDLE STREET, CLOTH FAIR, WEST SMITHFIELD, E.C. FIRST CLASS. LUCINDA B.-We trust that now your holidays are over you will again favour us. MAGGIE SYMINGTON.-We shall be glad to hear from you in answer to our letter. PERRYGOLD must not despair. We sympathise with her sincerely. HEATHERBELL sends "excuses for shortcomings this glorious weather." Our roval dictum is "Enjoy yourself on the fine days, but work on the wet ones!" KATE SYDNAS writes:-"Pray accept my best thanks for your kind award in my favour last month. I am attached with such sincerity to my duties as a councillor that I must regret being obliged to subscribe myself this month, your idle contributor, Kate Sydnas." ALEX. ERSKINE delays his departure, and will address his friends in the Council next month. Meanwhile, we beg to assure him that we have received numerous letters full of kindly good wishes for his welfare from the members of the F. F. C. ST. CLAIR.-We should be pleased to read, and, if suitable, publish her article. Kindly forward the MS. and illustrations. SPECTATOR writes:-"I beg to offer with true sincerity my best wishes for the safe and prosperous voyage of A. Erskine, and should like to subscribe, if not too late, towards a small testimonial to be given on his departure. Being an attached member of the Council, I should much like his carte de visite; as also that of my much admired Lucinda B." We take leave to say that the best testimonial would be the portraits of the Councillors, which we should be pleased to forward. C. T. RYE writes gaily from Paris, whither he went to spend his summer holidays. He says:"I hope mes confreres du Conseil will bear with me if I ask why we could legally claim the bears in the Jardin des Plantes?"-Because they are all ours. MIGNONETTE.-We have read the "Weddingday" with pleasure, but we dare not publish it, in consequence of some carelessness in construction and detail. Sweet Mignonette will please bloom again. STONEY.-Excuses accepted-royally. ELEANOR.-We shall be glad to read your song. Your conclusion is hardly correct; but we would give an early decision. A DE YOUNGE.-We have nothing of yours, except one or two historical mental pictures. Kindly write again. IMOGINE says of cryptographs:-"This new feature in enigmatic lore is very amusing, if only to look at, and exciting when we gain the least clue to the key, which little instrument is only granted to those possessing patience and perseverance." LILY H., DAISY H., ADELA, and EDWARD W. H., are not particularly industrious. The lovely weather makes them pardonably idle. We would give something to be idle for a few days; but the No! inexorable press says:--"Emphatically, Scribble or die, grumbler!" CALLER HERRIN' is always welcome. We hold him to his promise. IAGO, FLORIAN, and TERRA COTTA, are again congratulated. CARACTACUS is always ready with contributions to the Friend; but the weather is too warm for criticisms! EMMA BUTTERWORTH's request has been complied with. STANTONVILLE'S acrostic is very pretty, but too easy of solution. A cryptograph is a letter written with certain signs, letters, or characters, instead of letters in their usual order. But the plan or key of the cryptograph should always be given. ISABEL'S "Ride in the Country "would be better worth reading had she taken the trouble to read it through before trusting it to the postman. Why do you and other young ladies take so little pride in good handwriting? We wish-just for a daythat you were an Editor, or a reader for the press. ZANONI was enjoying himself at the seaside when he wrote to us. He says he is "naturally lazy," which will perhaps account for his careless handwriting. He further writes:-"Like all the Council, I regret the departure from Britain of our dear For many fellow-councillor, Alexander Erskine. years I have read his contributions with delight, and feel that, through them, I almost know him personally. I trust that he will still continue them." ZINGARA is vice Elizabeth H.-welcomed, always. ANNA GREY writes a long and interesting letter. We are always glad to hear from her. ROSALIE.-Tale received with thanks. NANCY. We are much pleased with "The Emperor Joseph;" but it is hardly up to publication mark. Try again. CAVALIER. We shall be glad to hear again from the author of "The Cavalier's Lament." REBECCA is not industrious. EMMA S. P. wishes us to say to Kate Sydnas, Gipsy, and other Councillors who have received her carte that she is anxious to place their portraits in GORGONIA must re-write "Memory," if he pleases, her album. By the way, the plan of exchanging and wishes it to be inserted. C MARSHALL (Ivanhoe).-We shall be glad to hear from you. The last poem, the "Miser," is hardly suited for our pages. cartes de visite seems to have fallen somewhat into disfavour. We ourselves have sent out some two hundred portraits and have only received about thirty in exchange. Is that fair? In reply to Councillors who wish to receive the Editor's carte, we beg to say that our stock is quite exhausted, but that copies of our new portrait may be obtained of KATE LESLIE is welcomed back to the seat of the the Royal Exchange Portrait Company for 13 Council-above the salt. BUSK, MAX, GILBERT ASHTON, RUTHENPHARL, VECHEN, TRIP, NELLA, G. MATTHEWSON. stamps. JUSTITIA, CHARLIE F., ROSINA, MARY W., ISABELLA S., CLARA S., EMMA, CORDELIA, and SELINA, are thanked and welcomed. GIPSY.-We can easily excuse you, browneyes. W. HARTIN.-We shall be glad to hear from you again. ADELA.-It shall be sent. SECOND CLASS. MARGUERITE, CECELIA, MARIA, and AMELIA, are welcomed. LEONA is requested to try again. Her story is pretty, but not quite ripe for publication. HATTIE, LITTle Giggie, Lizzie. CALLERNIE'S "Shadows of Time" would have been read with greater pleasure had it been written in a better hand. FAIRWEATHER improves. 37. TINCTURE FOR TEETH AND GUMS.-Mixx ounces of the tincture of Peruvian bark with half an ounce of sal-ammoniac. Shake it well before FORGET-ME-NOT.-The enigmas are too easy of using. Take a tea-spoonful, and hold it near the solution. Please try again. CAROLINE improves-persevere. LISA. Your poem is very pretty, but hardly to our taste for the Friend. Try again. ANNIE greatly improves, and if she perseveres, will soon be promoted. SAXON is going on prosperously. HEARTSEASE, C. Newbold, Euphrosyne, Bee, ISLA, CISTA, DORA, LITTLE SUNSHINE, ADENELLA, KELE REBE, A. MYTH, NIL ADMIRARI, SNOWDROP, JULIETTA, and other Councillors not here named, are requested to persevere. It must not be thought that because we do not mention every Councillor individually that we are indifferent to their claims. Want of space sometimes prevents our saying as much as we wish. To all-welcome and thanks. THIRD CLASS. SAUX is too complimentary. We thank him sincerely. W. H. GATES, and F. G. HOPPER, are thanked. S. GORTON'S name was omitted last month by mistake. Our friend writes:-"I was much agreeably surprised also at finding so good a photograph in the June number. It is really worth more than what the number cost." W. N. GARBUTT is thanked and welcomed. teeth; then, with a finger dipped in, rub the gums and teeth, which must afterwards be washed with warm water. This tincture cures the tooth-ache, preserves the teeth and gums, and makes them adhere to each other. 38. ANOTHER TINCTURE.-Take two table-spoonfuls of tincture of amber: tinctures of seed lac and of mastich, each one ounce and a half; one tablespoonful of tincture of myrrh; rose water, eight table-spoonfuls; and orange-flower water, four table-spoonfuls. 39. OPIATE FOR THE TEETH-Well boil and skim one pound of honey; add to it a quarter of a pound of bole-ammoniac, one ounce of dragon's blood, one of oil of sweet almonds, half an ounce of oil of cloves, eight drops of essence of bergamot, and a gill of honey water, all mixed well together, and put into pots for use. 40. ALMOND MILK WASH.-Take five ounces of bitter almonds, blanch, and beat them in a marble mortar quite fine; put in a spoonful of white wine when you beat them; take the whites of three new-laid eggs, three pints of spring water, and ene pint of white wine. Mix them all very well tegether; then strain it through a fine cloth, put into a bottle, and keep it for use. 41. ROSE POMADE.-Lard, eleven parts; beef suet, five parts; rose leaves, four parts. Melt is a water bath, and stir occasionally for two hours. then let it rest in a warm place, free from dust, for two or three days; after which time apply a heat just sufficient to liquify the fat, and keep it in this ELLARD. The magical square is very ingenious, state for two hours, stirring all the time; allow it but not new-that is, so far as construction and to cool, when it must be formed into lumps of thre idea goes. The acrostic is pretty and highly compounds each, placed in canvas bags, and subjectæ to the press. The pomade thus formed must be again treated with fresh rose leaves to increase the plimentary. DE LA SAUX sends a little poem, written in his fourteenth year, containing a pretty idea 'Twas not upon the bare hill side, perfume. 42. TOOTH POWDER.-Burn some rock alum. beat it in a mortar, and sift it fine; then tak some rose pink, mix well together to make it of a pale red colour; add a little powder of myrrh, and put it into bottles for use. 43. RAZOR PASTE.-Emery, reduced to an impalpable powder, two parts; spermaceti ointment, one part. Mix together, and rub it over the strop. |