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(COPYRIGHT.) I ANOTHER NEW FEATURE. "EVENING EXPRESS" ADLETS. A NEW SCHEME FOR OUR CARDIFF AND COUNTRY READERS. AMUSEMENT. PROFIT, REWARD. # CUT OUT THE FOLLOWING PUZZLE, and put it together as you think it ought to be. When pieced properly the portrait of a well-known person will appear in the left- hand corner. Write a WANT ADLET on the blank lines, enclosing money or stamps at the rates given below, and address :-EVENING EXPRESS, St. Mary-street, Cardiff. 04 0 r1 1 Emma cSt nab L SPECIAL RATES. Apartments Wanted, Furnished Rooms to be Let and Wanted, Situations Wanted, Servants Wanted, Public-houses Wanted and for Sale, Horses and Carriages, Miscel- laneous Wants, Personal, Articles Lost or Found, Sale and Exchange, ONE FARTHING PER WORD. Three insertions, Half as much as One, Six insertions, Double the price of one. ONCE. THREE TIKJBS. SIX TIMES. 16 words 4d. 6d. 8d. 24 „ 6d. 9d. Is. 32 „ ad. Is. Is. 4d. No Advertisement under the above headings taken for less than THREEPENCE. SPECIAL PRIZES. FIFTY CLOTH BOUND 3s. 6D. BOOKS. Will be given every week to the 50 persons who put the above puzzle together in the bes manner, and forward the same to the EVENING EXPRESS Office, with a Want Adlet written in the blank, enclosing pay for the Want Adlet at the above-named rates. In awarding the books, neatness with which the puzzle is put together, and the composition or wording of the advertisement, will be considered. The best one received during the week will be awarded THE PRIZE LIBRARY. 1 LIST OF HANDSOMELY BOUND 3s. 6d. BOOKS TO BE COMPETED FOR. ) Herodotus. Mill's Political Economy. Carlyle's French Revolution. White's Natural History of Selbornc. Dickens's Pickwick Papers. The Shi-King Chinese National Poetry. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Pope's Translation. Montaigne's Essays. Mill's System of Logic. Lewes's Biographical History of Philosophy. Thttckerny's VMiity Fair. Sbah Nameh. Captain Cook's Voyages. The Koran. Shakspeare's Works. Bosrwell's Johnson." Sir W. Scott's Ivanhoe. Thucydides. David Copper field. iAdam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Tyrwhitt's Notes. Don Quixote, with Illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, R.A. Robinson Crusoe, 52 Illustrations by J. D. Watson. Dryden's Poetical Works. Phrtarch's Lives. The Last Days of Pompeii. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 53 Illustrations, Aristotle's Ethics, Translated by Dr. Gillies. Wake's Apostolical Fathers. Pascal's Thoughts on Religion. Emerson's Essays. The Nibelugen Lied. Burke's Speeches and Writings (Selections). Spenser's Faerie Queene. Scott's Poetical Works. Arabian Nights. Cruden's Concordance to the Old and New Testaments. The Family Doctor, with 500 Illustrations. The Works of Charles Lamb. Carlyle's Oliver Cromwell. Sartor Resartus. Macaulay's Essays. Drawing-room Amusements, by Hoffman. How to Become a Wizard, by Robert Houdin. A New Chess Manual, with 66 Diagrams, by L. Hoffer. Agricultural Chemistry, by Sibson: Webster's Dictionary, 1,500 Illustrations. Nuttall's Dictionary. Cage and Singing Birds. Wild Flowers, by Spencer Thomson. Delamer's Kitchen and Flower Garden. The Eight Hon. W. E. Gladstone's Speeches. Marquess of Salisbury's Speeches. The New Cookery Book. with Two Coloure4 Plates. The Victoria History of England, 400 Illustrations. Popular Nursery Tales and Stories, with 170 Illustra- tions. Child's Pieture Fable Book, 60 Illustrations. Child's Country Book, by Thomas Miller, with Coloured Plates. Any one of the foregoing List may be selected by Competitors, or a work may be chosen from the writings of the following eminent authors :— Lord Lytton. Scott. Harrison Ainsworth. Victor Hugo. Balzac. Eugene Sue. Fennimore Cooper. Longfellow. Dickens. Burns. Dumas. Moore. Lever. Shelley. Marrat Hoed, I i N.B.—All Adlets received during the week, up to 3 o'clock on I SATURDAY AFTERNOON, will be eligible for the above Prizes.

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