We will give a table in the [solutions] which shows a large number of similar possible positions. Meantime our solvers may like to trace some for themselves.
APPOSITE AND OPPOSITE
Three most excellent anagrams are formed with the letters of the great name Thomas Carlyle. Two of them seem to point to the rugged sage of Chelsea in life, and one to his repose in death. They are:—
Mercy! lash a lot.
Cry shame to all!
A calm holy rest.
A ROYAL ANAGRAM
(Adsit omen!)
“Albert Edward and Alexandra.”
All dear bread and war tax end!
No. LIV.—QUARRELSOME NEIGHBOURS
Three families, who were not on speaking terms, lived in three houses within the same enclosing fence. Determined to avoid each other, they built covered ways from the doors of their houses to their gates, so that they might never cross each other’s paths. The family in A had their gate at A, those in B at B, and those in C at C. How were these covered ways arranged so as to secure their complete separation?
