Anagrams.

ANAGRAMS .

A TRUE anagram consists in the arrangement of a word or sentence into another word or sentence , by an exact transposition of the letters , thus : - Sir Thomas Wiat — a wit . This conceit is ridiculed by Butler in his " Hudibras , " Part 1 , Canto 3 , Verse 190 : — " His doleful wailings did resound More wistfully , by many times , Than in small poets splay—foot rhimes , That make her , in their ruthful stories , To answer to int'rogatories . "

Trivial a * the art of forming anagrams may appear , it was a form of literary recreation so muoh in fashion in the days of Elizabeth and her successors the Stuarts , that it found an advocate in the celebrated and learned Camden , who , in his " Remains " has bequeathed to future generations a copious essay on the subject . Camden himself liked the anagram exceedingly , as yielding a " delightful comfort and pleasant

motion to honest minds , " and if difficult , is , he says , " a whetstone of patience to them that shall practice it ; for some have been seen to bite their pen , scratch their heads , bend their brows , bite their- lips , beat the board , tsar their paper , when their names were fair for somewhat , and they caught nothing therein . " Camden seems incliuvd to refer the origin of anagrammitising even

to the time of Moses . The Jewish Cabalists directly professed tbe art of themura , that is , changing or transposing terms to discovers hidden signification in them . This is really the art of making anagrams . From Noah ' s name they made grace for example , in Hebrew ; and in Messiah they found he shall rejoice . Friar Bacon , aooordingto common custom , concealed one of his

gunpowder ingredients , charcoal , under an anagram . In his treatise Be Secretis Operibus , the secret of the composition is expressed in Latia : — " sed tameu salis petroo , LURA MOPE CAN UBRE et snlphuris , " lura mope can nbre being the anagram for oarbonum pulvere . Newton also adopted this method of preventing his mathmatical discoveries from becoming the property of the curious .

The French appear to have most cultivated this species of wit , whioh Camden says , " they exceedingly admire , and celebrate for tbe deep and far-fetched antiquity and mystical meaning thereof , " Louis XIII . had a regular anagrammitist pensioned at 1200 lives a year . In France , a man sometimes made his fortune by working out a single happy transposition of a king ' s or great man ' s name . All

France rung with the anagram on the monarch , Francis de Voloys , whose name was converted into Bi faqon suis royal , indicating him to be " of real strain . " Marie Touohet , favourite of Charles IX ., was extremely well pleased with the fact that her fascinations were indicated in the very name which she bore , and whioh saye , Je eharme tout , " I charm all . " It had been stated that the name of Voltaire was really the

anagram of his family patronymic , with the adjunct of 1 j ., or junior ( le jeune ) , to distinguish him from his elder brother , and that his name in reality was Arouet le jeune , or , as he signed it , Aronet l . j , and that the two letters u and j were , until distinguished by Louis Elzevir ( 17 th century ) , indiscriminately written v and i . The anagram thus clearly proved : every letter though transposed , being equally in both : —AROVETLJ , VOLTAIRE .

12345678 437 G 1825 Here is ai anagram which refers to our Saviour . In the 18 th chapter of John v . 33 , Pilata is said to have put this question to Christ , " What ia truth ?* ' to whioh he received no answer . These words in Latin , " Quid est Veritas ? " form the anagram "Eft vir qui adest ! " ( It is the man who is before yon ) , an exceedingly appropriate suggestion .

Margaret of Valpis ( eighth child of Henry II . of France and his notorious wife Catherine de Medicis ) , was married to Henry of Navarre , who afterwards became Henry IV . The dissolute life which Margaret had led , caused her husband to seek a divorce , to whioh she readily consented , but stipulated that she should be allowed to retain tbe title of queen , and very large estates .

It looks like rank blasphemy to attempt to identify with the church one of the family of medicis , —a name notoriously associated with that terrible wholesale butchery of Huguenots , generally described in history as "The Massacre of St . Bartholomew , " which took place on the 24 th of August 1572 , and during the reign of our virgin queen . Iu this fearful carnage for the suppression of

Protestantism , about five hundred gentlemen aud men of rank , and nearly ten thousand of inferior condition perished in Paris alone . The King himself , ( Charles IX ) to the infinite disgust of hia ambassador Fenelon , absolutely fired at the fugitives , crying "kill , kill ! " Somebody discovered tbat the anagram of the name " Marguerite de Valois , " formed an address to the Virgin Mary , — " Salve Virgo Mater Dei , " whioh waa considered to be a very witty

compliment . Calvin , in his "Institutions , " printed at Strasbourg in 1539 , adopted the Latin title Alcuinun , which is a very simple transposition of Galvinus . The grave reformer heiog at enmity with Rabelais , entered into an anagrammatioal contest with him . In hia Latinised name Bibelaetius , he found the words rabie laesus , " bitten by madness . "

_ When it was discovered that James Charles Stuart , the bap . tismal designation of James I ., was covertible into " claims Arthur's seat , "it was seriously said th » t "this shows his undoubted ligbtf ul olaim to the monarchy of Britain , as success or to the renowned King Arthur . " The anagram in question was the production of a Welshman named Owen , who was an expert in this kind of thing iu this

golden age of anagrammatising . " From a collection of Sir Julius Caesar ' s in the Lansdown MSS . we learn that James ' s favourite , the noted Chris . Villiers , had an anagram of rather an appropriate kind made on his name , while he was an Earl . George Earle Buckinghame , was transposed into " Oh , grave , able king , grate me ! " Sir Julius very emphatically characterised this and similar effusions as " trash . "

Anagrams.

The following transpositions are made on the name of the maiden queen : Elizabetha Regina was found convertible to Angliae erii beati , that is , " A blessing shalt thou be to England ; " and EUzabetha Regina Anglomm was turned to Gloria regni salva mtxnebit , or , " Tha glory of the kingdom shall remain intact . " When the aeaagination

of Sir Thomas Overbury took place , an anagram appeared on hu name , exclusive of the title , which Sir Symonds d'Ewes , in his account of Carr , Earl of Somerset and his wife , speaks of as unworthy to be owned by the first wits of the age . It was , Ol 01 last mvrthyr . " Book of Rarities , " by Bro . EDWARD ROBERTS P . M . Asit . Prov . G . T . ( To be continued ) .

The Beauties Of Travel.

THE BEAUTIES OF TRAVEL .

APART from the enjoyment to be derived from a tonr in Scot'and at the present time there is an additional pleasure to be gained from the scenery and a view of the places of interest on tbe journey . Recognising this tbe differentRailway Companies are continually patting before the publio works intended to bring into prominence the attractions of their respective routes , which , it is fair to say , embrace some of the finest pieces of soenery to be met with in the British

Isles . The Midland Railway Company has juet issued such a workan illustrated guide to Scotland by the " most interesting route , embracing the land of Barns , the home and haunts of Scott , the Forth Bridge , & o . " and a perusal of its pages calls to oar mind some of the enjoyable trips we have taken on the Midland line . Oar one regret is that the guide is of such modest proportions . We should hare

liked a bulky volume , dealing in detail with the beauties of the route mile by mile , rather than by tbe long jumps necessary in so brief a work as tbat before us , and we believe many other travellers would equally enjoy such a sketch of their journeys long after - * they occurred , or equally appreciate such a descriptive account of what to look for at the time of their travels . As so much is being made

just now of the ease , comfort and beauty of a journey to the North , we almost wonder the great companies catering for the Scotch traffic do not arrange an interchange of tourist traffic one with another , so as to allow passengers to travel one way by one route , and return by another , just as is dona on shorter journeys in the South of England . By such an arrangement it

would be possible to enjoy two long ranges of beautiful scenery , instead of as at present being compelled to view thu sam ? country on both journeys , a drawback whioh has considerable vreigtt with those who seek for complete change in all their hi lid iys and who frequently come home from a trip only remembering the long journey from their holiday haunt through a country they professed to know mile by mile .

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