8. Can you complete this word square?
| * | M | * | N | * | S |
| M | * | N | * | O | * |
| * | N | * | B | * | E |
| N | * | B | * | L | * |
| * | O | * | L | * | R |
| S | * | E | * | R | * |
A FRENCH ORACLE
9. A spruce young Frenchman at a fête consulted a modern oracle as to how he could best please the ladies. This was the mystic response:—
MEC DO BIC.
Can you interpret it?
A QUAINT EQUATION
10. In our young days we have often wrestled with vulgar fractions, but apart from Algebra we have had no serious concern with any in which letters take the place of figures. A specimen of this sort, not known to science, is the following curiosity:—