I know not whether the art of composing anagrams was much practised in the days of Swift; the description, however, of one of the employments at the Academy of Lagado--the "project for improving speculative knowledge by practical mechanical operations," which was carried into operation by covering the superficies of a large frame with wooden letters, which, by the turning of a handle, were constantly shifted into new places--so aptly satirises this practice, that it seems likely that it was to this 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 deny that _Old England_ is a _golden land_; or that _lawyers_ are _sly ware_? There are many who deem _radical reform_ a _rare mad frolic_; and when asked to _guess a fearful ruin_, would reply _universal suffrage_. Every one will admit that _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_. What answer more fitting in the _penitentiary_ than _Nay, I repent it_? Is there a more _comical trade_ than the _democratical_? 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 affinity between _potentates_ and _ten tea pots_. C. A. That on _Daniel R._ may be otherwise rendered _Erin lad_. D. Q. Your interesting correspondent MR. BREEN challenges the world to produce "six good anagrams." It may help him in his search for them to be referred to two curious papers on the subject in the _Bengal Moofussul Miscellany_, reprinted in London in 1837. Or, as perhaps he may not have the book within reach, he may not be displeased at my extracting a few of the best of them. The first is a compliment paid to one of the Ptolemies: Πτολεμαῖος, ἀπὸ μέλιτος. Lycophron, in a similar vein, calls Ἀρσινόη, ἴον Ἥρας. Out of _William Noy_, Charles I.'s Ship-Money Attorney-General, we have, _I moyl in law_. _Loraine_ produces _alerion_, which is assigned as the reason for that house bearing eaglets in their arms. _Sir Edmundbury Godfrey_ gives, _I fynd murder'd by rogues_. The tale about Lady Eleanor Davies, lately referred to by one of your contributors, occurs in the first of these papers; as does another of somewhat later date, which really deserves to be preserved among your "Notes."