It is said that the cabalists among the Jews were professed anagrammatists, the third part of their art called _themuru_ (changing) being nothing more than finding the hidden and mystical meaning in names, by transposing and differently combining the letters of those names. Thus, of the letters of _Noah’s_ name in Hebrew, they made _grace_; and of the _Messiah_ they made _he shall rejoice_. Lycophron, a Greek writer who lived three centuries before the Christian era, records two anagrams in his poem on the siege of Troy entitled _Cassandra_. One is on the name of Ptolemy Philadelphus, in whose reign Lycophron lived:— ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΣ ΑΠΟ ΜΕΛΙΤΟΣ—Made of honey. The other is on Ptolemy’s queen, Arsinoë:— ΑΡΣΙΝΟΕ. ΕΡΑΣ ΙΟΝ—Juno’s violet. Eustachius informs us that this practice was common among the Greeks, and gives numerous examples; such, for instance, as the transposition of the word Αρετη, virtue, into Ερατη, lovely. Owen, the Welsh epigrammatist, sometimes called the British Martial, lived in the golden age of anagrammatism. The following are fair specimens of his ingenuity:— §Galenus—Angelus.§ _Angelus_ es bonus anne malus; _Galene!_ salutis Humana custos, _angelus_ ergo bonus, §De Fide—Anagramma quincuplex.§ _Recta_ fides, _certa_ est, _arcet_ mala schismata, non est, Sicut _Creta_, fides fictilis, arte _caret_. §Brevitas—Anagramma triplex.§ Perspicua brevitate nihil magis afficit aures In _verbis_, _ubi res_ postulat, esto _brevis_. In a _New Help to Discourse_, 12mo, London, 1684, occurs an anagram with a very quaint epigrammatic “exposition:”— TOAST—A SOTT. A toast is like a sot; or, what is most Comparative, a sot is like a toast; For when their substances in liquor sink, Both properly are said to be in drink. Cotton Mather was once described as distinguished for— “Care to guide his flock and feed his lambs By words, works, prayers, psalms, alms, _and anagrams_.” Sylvester, in dedicating to his sovereign his translation of Du Bartas, rings the following loyal change on the name of his liege:— James Stuart—A just master. Of the poet Waller, the old anagrammatist said:— His brows need not with _Lawrel_ to be bound, Since in his name with _Lawrel_ he is crowned. The author of an extraordinary work on heraldry was thus expressively complimented:— Randle Holmes. Lo, Men’s Herald! The following on the name of the mistress of Charles IX. of France is historically true:— Marie Touchet, Je charme tout. In the assassin of Henry III., Frère Jacques Clement,