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HE editor of By the Way wonders why this cross-word puzzle craze cannot be used to stimulate an interest in good reading. Instead of trying to discover a meaningless jumble of words, let us turn our puzzle-hunters loose upon a series of great quotations. When they have solved their puzzle, then they will have something to show for their trouble. A form of cross-word puzzle-until we are corrected, we will continue to hope that it is a new one-which will accomplish this end is printed below as a sample for others to copy. This kind of puzzle is simplicity itself to construct and this particular one ought to be equally simple to solve. Those who know their Shakespeare will probably be able to fill in the quotation before it is half disclosed by the process of crosslettering.

15, 19, 32, 35, a school

35, 26, 31, 16, 17, a direction

18, 8, 12, 26, 1, a weapon

1, 6, 3, 5, 29, a possessive pronoun

30, 12, 21, 33, 34, a smell

33, 34, 16, 19, 9, 8, substance

2, 3, 20, 23, a cry

24, 21, 20, 25, a football term

5, 2, 4, 25, 9, to glow

24, 21, 14, 11, a bird

10, 27, 22, 14, 4, 11, an artist's workshop

As a resolution for the new year, for those who like to make such resolutions, the following from a United States health bulletin is worth repeating:

"Take exercise. Take daily exercise. Have a hobby that gets you out of doors. Keep chickens, make a garden, wheel the baby, or play golf or any other game, but take two hours' outdoor exercise every day."

Here is a sprightly piece of descriptive writing apropos of the death of a woman of fashion in London, who is said

to have spent $300,000 in one year on personal dress. It is from the New York "World:"

When she moved from capital to capital, her baggage train was more impressive than that of a regiment of infantry. Her presence in a railroad station or a hotel meant that all others, no matter what their claims in. wealth or distinction, must carry their own luggage:

From "Williams Purple Cow:"

Abie "Mamma, vat do cows live on?"

Mamma-"Fodder, Abie."

Abie "Oi, I didn't think Papa was so generous.

Brahmagupta, a Hindu mathematician, is credited by a newly published book, "Beacon Lights of Science," with the invention of the so-called Arabic numerals. "With this almost forgotten Hindu," it says, "the idea seems to have originated to adopt [Sanskrit] symbols for the words of the numbers from one to nine, to add the zero symbol, and by finally to give all position value, which, without the use of any more symbols, any numerical quantity in whole numbers up to infinity could be expressed with ease. As a conception it ranks in importance with the invention of the wheel in mechanics."

"A visitor to our State insane asylum asked a patient whom he met while going through a ward," a Vermont subscriber writes, "Is that clock right?' pointing to a timepiece on the wall. 'No,' was the quick response; if it were, it wouldn't be here."

Apropos of the charade reprinted in this column December 24, a subscriber tells of a conversation he once had with an English lady, about as follows:

"So many of your States have curious names!"

"Yes, several of them are of Indian origin."

"Oh, I don't mean that! There, for example, is Matrimony."

"I do not think we have a State named Matrimony."

"Oh, yes, I know you have. Of course when there are so many it may not be easy for you to remember them all. But I am sure of it because of a charade which was told to me. 'My first you put on the floor, my second you put in your mouth, my third you put in your pocket; and my whole is one of the United States.' And the answer was Matrimony."

HE purpose of the Utopian Edition of The

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Library of Poetry and Song is to make it possible for everyone to own all the best verse that has come into existence in our language for the last six hundred years (that is, since the time of Chaucer).

Within the covers of this single work (in three ample but convenient volumes) you will start on a pilgrimage with Chaucer's immortal company: a Knight, a Clerk, a Sergeant of the Lawe, a Povre Persoun of a Toun, wel nyne-and-twenty that toward Caunterbury wolden ryde. And conclude your adventure with our metropolitan folk-song "East Side, West Side, all around the town!" Between these two extremes lie every shade of emotion, every poetic thought and feeling of mankind -the work of over nine hundred poets!

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OHN T. ROWLAND'S "Tale of Rorie McLeish" is drawn practically from life. The Mission is Dr. Wilfred Grenfell's, the young doctor is any one of the volunteers out of medical school who go up to Labra

dor, and the person to whom Rorie referred as "the Old Doctor" is Grenfell himself. Mr. Rowland has been on expeditions of exploration with Dr. Grenfell, and as a Yale undergraduate spent all his vacations cruising the Labrador coast in the service of the Mission.

H.P. T. is a housewife, mother, and

grandmother, who tries to work out a philosophy of life in regard to both housekeeping and personal problems, and tries to pass on some of this hard-won philosophy to others. Her first years of married life were spent on St. Helena Island, off the coast of South Carolina. Life was very primitive there; and through the stress of housekeeping difficulties she began to work out her home problems on a business basis. She has continued to be interested along this line of thought ever since.

A history which summarizes all that is known about the American Nation; that traces its peoples back to their native soil; that tells of their struggles and triumphs-of what has made them today the most powerful nation on earth; a history written by the best authorities in the land.

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Vol. I-European Background of American History. By Edward Potts Cheney, A.M., Prof. of History, University of Pennsylvania.

Vol. II-Basis of American History. By Livingston Farrand, A.M., M.D., Pres. of Cornell University. Vol. III-Spain in America. By Edward Gaylord Bourne, Ph.D., Prof. of History, Yale University. Vol. IV-England in America. By Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL.D., Pres. of William and Mary College. Vol. XI-The Federalist System. By John Spencer Bassett, Ph.D., Prof. of American History, Smith College.

Vol. XII-The Jeffersonian System. By Edward Channing, Ph.D., Prof. of History, Harvard Univ. Vol. XIII-The Rise of American Nationality. By Kendric Charles Babcock, Ph.D., Pres. of the University of Arizona.

Vol. XVI-Slavery and Abolition. By Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D., LL.D., Prof. of History, Harvard University.

Vol. XVII-Westward Extension. By George Pierce Garrison, Ph.D., Prof. of History, University of Texas.

Vol. XIX-Causes of the Civil War. By French Ensor Chadwick, Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., recent Pres. of the Naval War College.

Vol. XXV.-America as a World Power. By John Holladay Latane, Ph.D., Prof. of History, Washington and Lee University.

Vol. XXVI-National Ideals Historically Traced. By Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D., LL.D., Prof. of History, Harvard University.

Vol. XXVII-National Progress. By Frederic Austin Ogg, Ph.D., Prof. of Political Science, University of Wisconsin.

Vol. XXVIII-Analytic Index. Compiled by David M. Matteson, A.M.

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