Puzzle This Out. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 99, 21 January 1935, Page 7

Puzzle This Out. IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER

Six authors are seated three aside in a first-class railway compartment. Their names are Black, Brown, Uray, Green. Pink and White. They are (but not respectively), an Essayist, an Historian, a Humorist, a Novelist, a Playwright, and a Poet. Each has written a book which some other occupant of the compartment is reading. Mr. Black is reading essays. Mr. Gray is reading a book by the author sitting opposite to him. Mr. Brown is sitting between the essayist and the humorist. Mr. Pink is sitting next to the playwright. The essayist is facing the historian. Mr. Green is reading plays. Mr. Brown and the novelist were at school together. Mr. Black, who is in the corner seat, has no interest in history. Mr Green is facing the novelist. Mr. Pink is reading a book by the humorist. Mr. White never reads poetry. Identify each of the six authors. Answer to Saturday’s Puzzle Jones’s companions were:— Before lunch: Mrs. Robinson and Miss Brown. After lunch: Mrs. Smith and Miss Robinson. After tea: Mrs. Brown and Miss Smith.