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66. Oblique Puzzle. Malice, eight, a polemical meeting, a Scottish river, what I write with, a decided negative, the capital of Ireland. The initials downward name a celebrated musician. (solution in p.67 below.) 67. Diagonal Puzzle. A direction, a singer, a little bird, a lady's ring, a sharp shaver. Read from left to right and right to left, the centrals show two famous novelists. The following are answers to these two puzzles, and afford good examples of their construction to any one who wishes to try his hand at their manufacture. OBLIQUE. DIAGONAL. R E V E N G E L A B E L O C T A V E T E N O R S Y N O D D I V E R S P E Y J E W E L I N K R A Z O R N O I 68. Diamond Puzzle. The head of a mouse, what the mouse lives in, the county of calves, the city of porcelain, a German town, a Transatlantic stream, a royal county, a Yorkshire borough, Eve's temptation, our poor relation, myself. Centrals down and across, show a wide, wide, long river. The construction of the Diamond Puzzle is exhibited in the following diagram, which is, at the same time, the answer to it. DIAMOND. M A I R E S S E X D R E S D E N G O T T I N G E N M I S S I S S I P P I B E R K S H I R E H A L I F A X A P P L E A P E I