In this Magic Square the rows, columns, and diagonals add up to 65, and the sum of any two opposite and corresponding squares is 26.

ENIGMAS

1
A MYSTIC ENIGMA

He stood himself beside himself
And looked into the sea;
Within himself he saw himself,
And at himself gazed he.
Now when himself he saw himself
Within himself go round,
Into himself he threw himself,
And in himself was drowned.
Now if he had not been himself,
But other beast beside,
He would himself have cut himself
Nor in himself have died.

[Solution]

No. IV.—A NEST OF CENTURIES

2247164110354
5234817421129
3062449183612
1331725431937
3814321264420
213983322745
461540934328

The numbers in this Magic Square of 49 cells add up in all rows, columns, and diagonals to 175. The four corner cells of every square or rectangle that has cell 25 in its centre, and cells 1, 7, 49, 43, add up to 100.

2

One morning Chloe, to avoid the heat,
Sat in a corner of a shady seat.
Young Strephon, on the self-same errand bound,
This fairest flower of all the garden found.
Her peerless beauty set his heart aflame,
Three monosyllables expressed his aim.