THE RIDDLE BOX ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE OCTOBER NUMBER 3. Music. 4. Olive. CONNECTED SQUARES. I. 1. Carol. 2. Aware. 3. Raven. 4. Oread. 5. Lends. II. 1. Rumor. 2. Uvula. 5. Races. 111. 1. Sever. veal. 2. Exile. 3. Vines. IV. 1. Under. 2. Nerve. Drain. 4. Evict. 3. 2. Alone. 3. Tongs. 4. Ingot. 5. Nests. 5. 4. Elect. 5. Rests. DOUBLE BEHEADINGS AND CURTAILINGS. Galileo. 1. Ve-get-al, SOLVERS wishing to compete for prizes must give answers in full, following the plan of the above-printed answers to puzzles. TO OUR PUZZLERS: Answers to be acknowledged in the magazine must be received not later than the 24th of each month, and should be addressed to ST. NICHOLAS Riddle-box, care of THE CENTURY CO., 33 East Seventeenth Street, New York City. ANSWERS TO ALL THE PUZZLES IN THE AUGUST NUMBER were received before August 24 from Mary L. Ingles. ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE AUGUST NUMBER were received before August 24 from "Allil and Adi," 7-Virginia B. Donham, 7-Evelyn Hillman, 7-"Chums," 7-Mary E. K. Marsh, 7-Sarah Gilles, 7-"Two Pals," 7-Florence Noble, 6-Marshall A. Best, 6-Dorothy Berrall, 6-Caroline Jamison, 6-Isabel Shaw, 6-Elizabeth C. Bates, 6-" Midwood," 6-Harry C. Bailey, 5-Florence E. Wallace, 5-Arthur Poulin, 4-Lucy May Burgin, 3-Gaylord A. Wood, 2-Edith C. McCullough, 1-Agnes E. Lewis, 1-Thelma Coleman, 1-Dorothea Weinacht, 1William A. Nichols, 2d, 1-Sewell Woodward, 1. NOVEL DOUBLE ACROSTIC (Gold Badge. Silver Badge won August, 1914) 2. ALL of the words described contain the same number JOHN FOSTER CHAPMAN (age 17). NUMERICAL ENIGMA I AM composed of forty-two letters, and form the name of a famous document that was signed in the month of November, and the number of persons who signed it. My 35-13-8-25 is a ceremony. My 28-5-22-31 is sound. My 10-16-14-42 is to blow. My 33-39-17-20 is a wind-instrument. My 2-11-6-36 is to search. My 24-29-27-18-37 is elegant. My 32-30-3-38-26 is a spirited horse. My 12-9-40-19-1 is compact. My 4-217-41-23-34-15 is a pillow. MARY K. KNOWLTON (age 15), League Member. DOUBLE BEHEADINGS AND DOUBLE DOUBLY behead and doubly curtail: 1. Reveres, and leave leave a hollow metallic vessel. 7. Obviously, and leave part of the head. 8. Queer, and leave raced. The initial letters of the eight remaining little words will spell a word often seen nowadays. ROWENA D. KORTHENER (age 13), League Member. CONNECTED WORD-SQUARES I. UPPER, LEFT-HAND SQUARE: 1. A rascal. 2. A junto. urge. II. UPPER, RIGHT-HAND SQUARE: 1. To supplicate. 2. To abandon. 3. A support for a picture. 4. To turn aside. 5. A Greek letter. III. CENTRAL SQUARE: 1. Fixed the time of. 2. To bring low. 3. Nice perception. 4. To impede. 5. The seas. IV. LOWER, LEFT-HAND SQUARE: 1. A red fluid. 2. Permission. 3. Made of oak. 4. Used in baking. 5. Compact. V. LOWER, RIGHT-HAND SQUARE: 1. A dark stone. 2. Rouse. 3. To turn away. 4. Concise. 5. To penetrate. JULIAN E. MACK (age 11), League Member. A BATTLE PUZZLE EACH of the five pictures shown represents a battle that was fought in the month of November. What are the names of the five battles? 5 14 6 4 9 16 3 . 23 * 17 I 10 * * 15 19 * * 52 . 8 II 21 13 20 18 22 12 NOVEL ACROSTIC ALL the cross-words contain the will each spell the surname of a President. CROSS-WORDS: 1. A collection of hymns. 2. Sanctions. 3. A fiber used for making baskets. 4. Actually. 5. The home of Ulysses. 6. Sweet, liquid substances. of the United States. 8. Tidier. EXAMPLE: Take to gain from wound around and make a masculine nickname. Answer, T-win-ed, Ted. 1. Take ancient from a supporter, and leave a pro2. Take a measure of weight from a Roman name, and leave some. 3. Take consumed from thin, and leave twisted. 4. Take a rug from a vegetable, and leave also. 5. Take a grown person from kind, and leave, color. 6. Take an inclosure from that which opens anything, and leave a poetic contraction for "over." 7. Take an implement for rowing from cried loudly, and leave a color. 8. Take an organ from approached, and leave a masculine nickname. 9. Take a feminine nickname from followed, and leave the finish. The initials of the nine words before being syncopated will spell the surname of a famous man; the initials of the nine little words will, when rearranged, spell a ditch and metrical compositions. HENRY S. JOHNSON (age 14), League Member. Subtract the upper stratum of earth from to destroy. 3. Subtract to talk foolishly from a sea-robber. 4. Subtract a small nail from a pile. 5. Subtract a shallow dish from part of the mouth. 6. Subtract a confederate from to delay. 7. Subtract a Russian coin from a low, heavy sound. 8. Subtract to gain by labor from to long for. When the eight discarded letters are properly rearranged they will spell the name of the most interesting structures in the world. ALVIN E. BLOMQUIST (age 16), League Member. the southern part of Sweden. 8. the United States. A Canadian province. When the foregoing names have been rightly guessed and written one below another, the diagonal, beginning with the upper, left-hand letter (86) and ending with the lower, right-hand letter (87), will spell the name of one of the United States. The letters represented by the figures from 1 to 12, 13 to 18, 19 to 27, 28 to 33, 34 to 41, 42 to 47, and 48 to 55 will each spell the name of one of the United States; 56 to 60, Candia; 61 to 66, a famous country of Europe; 67 to 73, a town in Dubuque County, Iowa; 74 to 80, a town in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; 81 to 85, a town on the Susquehanna River; 86 to 90, a famous African city; 91 to 93 and 94 to 96 are abbreviations for two of the United States. THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK. HARRY C. BAILEY (age 15). 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