WD_ADV_JUNE_10

As things were going, with the Russian ambassador the real ruler of Poland, it was _ _ _ _ a matter of time till Russia would completely absorb the country, under whatever phrase. [4 Letters; O _ _ _]

Dresden’s rival, Leipzig, resumed its annual book fair, where publishers from _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in Europe offered their latest wares, and Germany’s flourishing literature led the intellectual parade. [10 Letters; E _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E]

It was her tragedy that she wished to be a woman _ _ well as a queen ; to feel all the warmth of romance without abating the privileges of rule. [2 Letters; A _]

The Calvinist democracy that had captured several cities was falling into such anarchy that men of property, Protestant as _ _ _ _ as Catholic, began to wonder whether the new dispensation was not, [4 Letters; W _ _ _]

If Parliament were to admit the authority of the King to cancel parliamentary legislation, the Civil War would have to be fought _ _ _ _ more. [4 Letters; O _ _ _]

Albert himself was a German Medici, making his court a haven for artists, beautifying his capital with architecture, and gathering sculpture into the imposing AntiquariumII ; the first museum of ancient statuary _ _ _ _ _ of the Alps. [5 Letters; N _ _ _ H]

But in Vasa’s Sweden taxes cost almost as much to collect as they brought in, for those who alone could pay them were strong _ _ _ _ _ _ to resist. [6 Letters; E _ _ _ _ H]

in the centuries before the Persian and Greek conquests, the native civilization of Egypt had its last revival; and then, a hundred and twenty-nine miles _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of Alexandria, is Cairo. [9 Letters; S _ _ _ _ _ _ _ T]

They lent eager hearing to the rumor that he was not really dead but was fighting his way _ _ _ _ to Rome; [4 Letters; B _ _ _]

If the land would but cease from noise, and strife be _ _ more" ; it is clear that Ipuwer was tired and old. [2 Letters; N _]