XV.

THE HOGARTH OF SONG.

"NATURE'S sternest painter, yet her best!"

1. It has leaves like lances.

2. A corrosive.

3. The discoverer of the river of the
Amazons.

4. Cause of uneasiness.

5. An insect.

6. He was a most powerful advocate at
the English bar.

XVI.

"FOUR lamps were burning o'er two mighty graves, Salem's Christian kings;

And holy light glanced from Helena's naves,
Fed with the incense which the pilgrim brings."

1. A distinguished Russian discoverer.
2. The inventor of the musical gamut.

3. A pretty beetle.

4. A friend of the Empress Catherine of

Russia.

5. An English castle.

6. A petrified fish.

7. A biographical notice of a deceased person.

XVII.

"THE skies are bright with azure and with gold, The mavis and the nightingale, by turns, Amid the woods a soft enchantment hold;

The flowering woods, with glory and delight, Their tender leaves unto the air have spread,

The wanton air, amid their alleys bright, Doth softly fly, and a light fragrance shed.

Artist unseen! that dipt in frozen dew,
Hast on the glittering glass thy pencil laid,
Ere from yon sun the transient vision fade,
Swift let me trace the forms thy fancy drew!
Thy towers and palaces of diamond hue,
Rivers and lakes of lucid crystal made,

And hung in air hoar trees of branching shade
That liquid pearl distil."

1. A faint representation.

2. A town of Genoa.

3. A long-lived noted actor.

4. A turret on Mahometan mosques.

5. A pastoral poem.

6. The discoverer of the art of manu

facturing porcelain.

XVIII. [TRIPLE ACROSTIC.

"THE priestly brotherhood, devout, sincere,
From mean self-interest and ambition clear,
Their hope in Heaven, servility their scorn,
Their wisdom pure-and given them from above,
Their usefulness insured by zeal and love!

1. An unskilful repairer.

2. Sudden influence on the mind.

3. An opiate.

4. The inner part of a thing.

5. An island in the South Pacific Ocean.

6. A proprietor.

7. Those holding sublapsarian doctrines.

XIX.

OPPOSITES.

1. A sibilant utterance.

2. An ancient people of North Germany.

3. The old man of the woods.

4. An ancient patriarch.

5. The main point of a question.

ΧΧ.

"TROY in our second lives,
Not in her first."

1. One of the mechanical powers.

2. A fine kind of paper.

3. A town of Hindostan.

4. To engage.

5. Pertaining to the ocean.

6. An old quarrel.

7. Weeds.

8. A distinct substance.

XXI.

CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE.

1. THE master of Mephistopheiles.

2. Measured motion.

3. An island of Japan.

4. One of the horrors of the Inquisition.

5. Firmness of mind.

6. A friend of Socrates.

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XXII.

"HEARD ye not the battle horn ?
Leave your golden corn!

Leave for the birds of Heaven,
Swords must flash, and spears be riven!

-Leave the mountain chase!

Take the falchion from its place!

Let the wolf go free to-day,
Leave him for a nobler prey!
Let the deer ungall'd sweep by,

Arm ye! Britain's foes are nigh."

1. A distinguished courtier.

2. An arm of the sea on the west of Scotland.

3. The river of pain and grief.

4. The inventor of painting on enamel.

5. A pope, twelfth century.

6. What is left.

7. Excitement of mind.