On the title-page of “_Hugo Grotius his Sophompaneas_” the date, 1652, is not given in the usual form, but is included in the name of the author, thus:— §franCIs goLDsMIth.§ Howell, in his _German Diet_, after narrating the death of Charles, son of Philip II. of Spain, says:— If you desire to know the year, this chronogram will tell you: §fILIVs ante DIeM patrIos InqVIrIt In annos.§ MDLVVIIIIIIII, or 1568. The following commemorates the death of Queen Elizabeth:— _My Day Is Closed In Immortality._ (1603.) A German book was issued in 1706, containing fac-similes and descriptions of more than two hundred medals coined in honor of Martin Luther. An inscription on one of them expresses the date of his death, 1546, as follows:— §ECCe nVnc MorItVs IVstVs In paCe ChrIstI exItV tVto et beato.§ The most extraordinary attempt of this kind that has yet been made, bears the following title:— _Chronographica Gratulatio in Felicissimum adventum Serenissimi Cardinalis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis, a Collegio Soc. Jesu._ A dedication to St. Michael and an address to Ferdinand are followed by one hundred hexameters, _every one of which is a chronogram_, and each gives the same result, 1634. The first and last verses are subjoined as a specimen. AngeLe CæLIVogI MIChaëL LUX UnICa CætUs. VersICULIs InCLUsa, fLUent In sæCULa CentUM. Palindromes. RECURRENT, RECIPROCAL, OR REVERSIBLE WORDS AND VERSES. The only fair specimen we can find of reciprocal words, or those which, read backwards or forwards, are the same, is the following couplet, which, according to an old book, cost the author a world of foolish labor:— Odo tenet mulum, madidam mulum tenet Odo. Anna tenet mappam, madidam mappam tenet Anna. The following admired reciprocal lines, addressed to St. Martin by Satan, according to the legend, the reader will find on perusal, either backwards or forwards, precisely the same:— Signa te signa; temere me tangis et angis; Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.