Can you supply the missing words?

[Solution]

No. XXXI

This picture represents a parsnip lying across a sturdy swede.

Can you so readjust them that they seem to suggest a successful dramatist of the day? We give this broad hint by anagram—

“Here is our parsnip on swede.”
ANAGRAM
Wise and superior person he!

[Solution]

No. XXXII.—A GOOD LETTER PUZZLE

Can you fill the places of these 21 asterisks with only three different letters, arranging them so that they spell a common English word in twelve different directions?