Sunday, January 8, 2017

Merry's Book of Puzzles

John Newton Stearns - Merry's Book of Puzzles (1857)

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A collection of riddles, brain teasers and logic games for kids (along with Merry's Book of Rhymes taking up about the last third of the book).  Stearns (1829-1895) did a series of books as Merry's Book with various subjects - travel, poetry, birds,  He was also publisher and editor for the National Temperance Society and Publishing House for the last 30 years of his life.