Among the curiosities--not of literature--but of letters, the Anagram
was wont to be a favourite in the days of a by-gone generation. Who, for
instance, has not smiled blandly over that famous transposition, which
aptly converts "Horatio Nelson" into _Honor est a Nilo_?
The taste, however, for this sort of laborious trifling has almost
passed away; nor do we propose to re-open the subject of cabalistic
lettering. Our only purport is to offer a new specimen of its
eccentricities, which came upon us recently during a vain attempt to
solve certain mysteries, that occupy just now many serious minds. It is
commended alike to snappers-up of unconsidered trifles, and to readers
who chance to be imbued with a little tinge of superstitious
sensitiveness. We strive to hope that, though almost as curious, it is
not so unimpeachably appropriate as the one quoted above. The name, so
much in men's mouths, "Louis Napoleon Bonaparte," may by this method be
converted into, _An open plot--arouse, Albion_!