Finally, I will leave two easy maze puzzles (Figs. 24, 25) for my
readers to solve for themselves. The puzzle in each case is to find the
shortest possible route to the centre. Everybody knows the story of Fair
Rosamund and the Woodstock maze. What the maze was like or whether it
ever existed except in imagination is not known, many writers believing
that it was simply a badly-constructed house with a large number of
confusing rooms and passages. At any rate, my sketch lacks the authority
of the other mazes in this article. My "Rosamund's Bower" is simply
designed to show that where you have the plan before you it often
happens that the easiest way to find a route into a maze is by working
backwards and first finding a way out.




THE PARADOX PARTY.

"Is not life itself a paradox?"
C.L. DODGSON, _Pillow Problems_.


"It is a wonderful age!" said Mr. Allgood, and everybody at the table
turned towards him and assumed an attitude of expectancy.

This was an ordinary Christmas dinner of the Allgood family, with a
sprinkling of local friends. Nobody would have supposed that the above
remark would lead, as it did, to a succession of curious puzzles and
paradoxes, to which every member of the party contributed something of
interest. The little symposium was quite unpremeditated, so we must not
be too critical respecting a few of the posers that were forthcoming.