Very Highly Commended.

Ethel B. Angear, Lily Belling, E. Blunt, Margaret E. Bourne, Annie J. Cather, M. J. Champneys, Maggie Coombes, Minnie Cornwell, Leonard Duncan, Mrs. Fleming, A. and F. Fooks, Miss Fryer, Margaret S. Hall, L. A. E. Hartshorn, Helen Jones, Alice M. Kellett, B. M. Linington, E. E. Lockyear, Annie Manderson, Rev. H. Milnes, S. H. Phillips, Robina Potts, Mrs. Prestige, Ada Rickards, John Rodway, Emma M. Sanderson, Helen Simpson, Mildred M. Skrine, Helen Smith, Annie Stanser, Ellen C. Tarrant, Agnes M. Vincent, Anna Walker, N. H. White, Emily M. P. Wood, Elizabeth Yarwood, Edith M. Younge, Helen B. Younger, Euphemia T. Yule.

Highly Commended.

Mrs. Allen, Margaret M. Anthony, Emily Bergin, Alice Mary Blake, Ada K. Bullough, Martha Cairns, Robert H. Carmichael, Mrs. F. Chettle, Dora Clarke, Alice M. Cooper, Lillian Clews, Mrs. Crossman, E. M. Dickson, Mrs. F. Farrar, Florence Graves, Marie E. Hancock, Ellie Hanlon, Lizzie J. Hetherington, Edith L. Howse, M. A. J. Hunter, E. Marian Jupe, Annie G. Luck, Alice Luckhurst, Jennie M. McCall, Ethel C. McMaster, Helen A. Manning, Geo. H. Manning, S. Mason, Mrs. A. Motum, E. K. Palmer, Hilda Petley, Hannah E. Powell, Ellen M. Price, Helen J. Ransom, H. F. Richards, Henzell G. Robson, Chas. Severs, A. A. L. Shave, Agnes A. M. Shearer, Merriott T. Smiley, Gertrude Stirling, M. Stuart, Theodore J. Tasker, Constance Taylor, Marie Threlfall, Violet C. Todd, Queenie Tyssen, Mary Watts, Alice Woodhead, H. F. Yeoman.


EXAMINERS’ REPORT.

The thirst for information continues, and again we have been inundated with solutions. Happily for our peace of mind, many of them were far from perfect, and the more subtle methods of our Art have not been called into requisition. In short, the prize solutions were perfect; the rest were not.

There were some points about the puzzle which deserved rather more attention than the casual solver was inclined to bestow, and it seems to be necessary to refer to them in detail. First let us deal with the supposed mistakes. One solver, with admirable conciseness, thus calls attention to them—

“Three mistakes, line 1 an h too many; line 2 an h too few; line 6 an s too many.”