Answer to Double Acrostic I. (p. 364).

1.OasiS
2.BlA
3.ElectriC
4.DurbaR
5.IlluminatI ([a])
6.EthelwolF ([b])
7.NancI ([c])
8.CambriC ([d])
9.EuphrosynE ([e])
Obedience.Sacrifice.

[(a)] A secret society founded in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, for mutual assistance in attaining higher morality and virtue. It was suppressed by the Bavarian Government in 1784.

[(b)] The son of Egbert, and father of Alfred the Great.

[(c)] Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, besieged Nanci in 1476; but he was defeated and killed.

[(d)] So called from being made first at Cambray.

[(e)] One of the three Graces, or Charities.


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