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abuse him in no measured terms. Collier {Ecc. 

 Hist., vol. ii. p. 726., ed. 1714) mentions tliat 

 Antonius assisted at the consecration of some 

 English bishops in the chapel at Lambeth Palace. 

 He was afterwards reconciled to the Church of 

 Rome, but was soon imprisoned on suspicion of 

 heresy. After he was (lead, he passed through 

 the forms of tlie Inquisition, was ])ronounced a 

 lapsed heretic, and his corpse was publicly burnt. 



IvOVERT. 

 Withyhara. 



ANAGRAMS. 



(Vol. iv., p. 2-26.) 



I know not whether the art of composing ana- 

 grams was much practised in the days of Swift ; 

 the description, however, of one of the employ- 

 ments at the Academy of Lagado — the " project 

 for improving specidative knowledge by practical 

 mechanical operations," which was carried into 

 operation by covering the superficies of a large 

 frame with wooden lett:ers, which, by the turning 

 of a handle, were constantly siiifted into new 

 places — so aptly satirises this practice, that it 

 seems likely that it was to tliis he alluded, the 

 more so as the one employment would be as 

 profitable as the other. Mr. Breen, however 

 (Vol. iv., p. 226.) having challenged the production 

 of half a dozen good specimens of the art, perhaps 

 you will afford him an opportunity of amending 

 his judgment. The following twelve, whether 

 new or not, will at least stand the test he has 

 propounded : — 



Who will dtmy that Old England is a golden 

 land ; or that lawyers are shj ivare ? 



There are many who deem radicrd reform a 

 rare mad frolic; and when asked to guess a fearful 

 ruin, would reply universal suffrage. 



Every one will admit tliat astronomers are 

 moon-starers ; and that a telegraph is a great help. 



We have long been accustomed to consider that 

 a revolution is to love ruin ; and that nine thumps 

 constitute a punishment. 



Wliat answer more fitting in the penitentiary/ 

 than Niii/, I repent it ? 



Is tiiere a more comical trade than tlie demo- 

 cratical ? and what is more likely to make bakers 

 fat than a good breakfast. 



But, in conclusion, I am compelled to confess 

 that I can see no aflinity between potentates and 

 ten tea pots. C. A. 



That on Daniel R. may be otlierwise rendered 

 Urin lad. D. Q. 



Your interesting correspondent Mr. Bkern 

 chalii.'Uges the world to produce " si.x good ana- 

 grams." It may help iiim in his search for them 

 to be referred to two curious papers on the sub- 

 ject in the Bengal Moofussul Miscellany, re- 



printed in London in 1837. Or, as perhaps he 

 may not have the book within reach, he may not 

 be displeased at my extracting a i'^iw of the best 

 of them. The first is a compliment paid to one 

 of the Ptolemies : UToK^fj.a.los, airo ficAiros. Ly- 

 cophron, in a similar vein, calls "Apa-ivo-n, iov 

 "Hfjaj. Out of William Noy, Charles I.'s Ship- 

 Money Attorney-General, we have, / mayl in 

 law. Loraine produces alerion, which is assigned 

 as the reason for that house bearing eaglets in 

 their arms. Sir Ednmndbury Godfrey gives, / 

 fynd murder'd by rogues. Tlie tale about Lady 

 Eleanor Davies, lately referred to by one of your 

 contributors, occurs in the first of these papers ; 

 as does another of a somewhat later date, which 

 really deserves to be preserved among your 

 " Notes." 



"When young Stanislaus, afterwards king of Poland, 

 returned home from liis travels, all the illustrious 

 family of Leczinki assembled at Lissa to con<;iatulate 

 him on his arrival. Festivals, shows, and rejoicings of 

 every kind took \i\iice : but the most ingenious compli- 

 mePit that graced the occasion, was the one paid by the 

 College of Lissa. There appeared on the stage thirteen 

 dancers, dressed as youthful warriors ; each held in his 

 hand a shield, on which was engraved in characters of 

 gold, one of the thirteen letters which compose the two 

 words ' Donius Lescinia.' They then commenced 

 their dance, and so arranged it, that at each turn their 

 row of bucklers formed different anagrams. At the 

 first pause they presented them in the natural order : 



Domus Lescinia 

 At the second . . . Ades Incoluniis 

 At the third . . . Omnis es lucida 

 At the fourth . . . Mane Sidus Loci 

 At the fifth . . . Sis Columna Dei 

 At the last . . . . 1, scande Solium." 

 I fear I have already asked for too much of 

 your space, yet must I beg the least bit more for 

 an anagram which, unless the sacredness of the 

 subject be accounted a drawback, may well claim 

 a foremost place among the " six." It is found in 

 Pilate's question to our Lord, Quid est Veritas ? 

 which contains its own best answer : Est Vir qui 

 adest. Philip IIedgeland. 



DISCOVEEING THE BODIES OF THE DROWNED. 



(Vol. iv., p. 231.) 



The mode of doing this, as shown by S. W. to 

 be practised by the North American Indian.s, is 

 very common amongst ourselves. About five-and- 

 twenty years ago, an Eton boy, named Dean, who 

 had lately come to the school, imprudentlv bathed 

 in the river Thames where it flows with great ra- 

 pidity tinder tin; •' playing fields," and he was soon 

 carried out of his depth, and disappeared. Efforts 

 were made to save him or recover the body, but 

 to no purpose; until Mr. Evans, who was then, as 

 now, ihc accomplished drawing-master, threw a 



