they discovered C’est l’enfer qui m’a crée. The French appear to have practised this art with peculiar facility. A French poet, deeply in love, in one day sent his mistress, whose name was _Magdelaine_, three dozen of anagrams on her single name. The father Pierre de St. Louis became a Carmelite monk on discovering that his lay name— Ludovicus Bartelemi— yielded the anagram— Carmelo se devovet. Of all the extravagances occasioned by the anagrammatic fever when at its height, none equals what is recorded of an infatuated Frenchman in the seventeenth century, named André Pujom, who, finding in his name the anagram _Pendu à Riom_, (the seat of criminal justice in the province of Auvergne,) felt impelled to fulfill his destiny, committed a capital offence in Auvergne, and was actually hung in the place to which the omen pointed. The anagram on General Monk, afterwards Duke of Albemarle, on the restoration of Charles II., is also a chronogram, including the date of that important event:— Georgius Monke, Dux de Aumarle, Ego Regem reduxi Ano. Sa. MDCLVV. The mildness of the government of Elizabeth, contrasted with her intrepidity against the Iberians, is thus picked out of her title: she is made the English lamb and the Spanish lioness. Elizabetha Regina Angliæ, Anglis Agna, Hiberiæ Lea. The unhappy history of Mary Queen of Scots, the deprivation of her kingdom, and her violent death, are expressed in the following Latin anagram:— Maria Steuarda Scotorum Regina. Trusa vi Regnis, morte amara cado. In Taylor’s _Suddaine Turne of Fortune’s Wheele_, occurs the following very singular example:— But, holie father, I am certifyed That they your power and policye deride; And how of you they make an anagram, The best and bitterest that the wits could frame. As thus: _Supremus Pontifex Romanus_. Annagramma: _O non sum super petrum fixus_. The anagram on the well-known bibliographer, William Oldys, may claim a place among the first productions of this class. It was by Oldys himself, and was found by his executors among his MSS. In word and §WILL I AM§ a friend to you; And one friend §OLD§ is worth a hundred new. The following anagram, preserved in the files of the First Church in Roxbury, was sent to Thomas Dudley, a governor and major-general of the colony of Massachusetts, in 1645. He died in 1653, aged 77. THOMAS DUDLEY.