4. A CHARADE
Take for my first a quadruped,
Transpose one for my second;
My whole, a biped, quick or dead,
Is dainty reckoned.
5. BYRON’S ENIGMA
I am not in youth, nor in manhood, nor age,
But in infancy ever am known;
I’m a stranger alike to the fool and the sage,
And though I’m distinguish’d in history’s page
I always am greatest alone.
I am not in earth, nor the sun, nor the moon;
You may search all the sky—I’m not there;
In the morning and evening—though not in the noon—
You may plainly perceive me—for, like a balloon,
I am midway suspended in air.
Though disease may possess me, and sickness and pain,
I am never in sorrow nor gloom;
Though in wit and in wisdom I equally reign,
I’m the heart of all sin, and have long lived in vain,
Yet I ne’er shall be found in the tomb!
No. VIII.—A HARDY ANNUAL
A magic square can be formed with the 81 numbers from 172 to 252 inclusive, which in all its rows, columns, and diagonals will total 1908. It may interest our solvers to complete the square.