Rome's rude finger die," "I find mur- Such are the quirks and quiddities of der'd by rogues," the pure ones of Hora-modern literature, which might have puztio Nelson, "Honor est a Nilo," and of❘ zled the old Cabiri. William Noy, the proposer of ship-mon- But let us conclude in the terms of the ey, "I moyl in law," may serve for mne- learned Camden : "It is time to stay, monic references to the student of for some of the sour sort begin to laugh English history. at these, when as yet they have no better Fuller concludes the life of John Whit-insight in anagrams than wise Sieur Gaugift, that mirror of prelates, largely writ- lard, who when he heard a gentleman reten in his ecclesiastical history, with an port that he was at a supper, where they impure anagram, in respect of his mild had not only good company and good proceedings upon his name, Joannes cheer, but also savoury epigrams and fine Whitegifteus, "Non vi egit, favet Jesus." anagrams: he returning home, rated and And a man of entirely different complex-belouted his cook as an ignorant scullion ion of life, Ben Jonson, in his Hymenæi, that never dressed or served up to him has not thought an anagram unworthy of either epigrams or anagrams. And as for his learning. Juno is discovered in the these sour surlings, they are to be comclear æther sitting on a throne, her attire mended to Sieur Gaulard, and he with rich and queenlike, a white diadem on her them jointly to their cooks and kitchenhead, in one hand a sceptre, and in the stuff." other a timbrel, and at her golden feet a lion's hide. Around her the spirits of the air make music, and Reason thus addresses the audience in her introduction:

And see where Juno, whose great name
Is Unio, in her anagram,
Displays her glittering state and chair, &c.

The following anagram on Egypt's favourite," by Sir F. Hubert, is of a consolatory character:

And, Joseph, though thy sufferings be most
great,

Yet thinke upon the letters of thy name:
Which being inverted, bring some comfort yet,
For [Hope is] is [Joseph], his anagrame.
Of Edmund Waller, the poet, was writ-

ten:

His brows need not with laurel to be bound,
Since in his name with "lawrel" he is crowned.

From The Spectator.

LORD LYTTON ON NAMES, AND THEIR
INFLUENCE.

IN the amusing opening of Lord Lyt-
ton's posthumous novel, "Kenelm Chil-
lingly," there are some admirable remarks
on the moral responsibilities of parents for
the names they give to their children. Sir
Peter Chillingly is very hard on his own
name, and ascribes his mediocrity in
great measure to it.
"Peter," he says, to
the assembled family council, "has been
for many generations, as you are aware,
the baptismal to which the eldest born of
our family has been devoted. On the al-
tar of that name I have been sacrificed.

Never has there been a Sir Peter Chillingly who has in any way distinguished In Maunder's Treasury, "her most gra- himself above his fellows. That name cious Majesty, Alexandrina Victoria," is has been a dead-weight on my intellectutransformed into "Ah, my extravagant, al energies. In the catalogue of illustrijoco-serious, radical minister; with ous Englishmen there is, I think, no imwhich absurdity may be compared, to its mortal Sir Peter, except Sir Peter Teahonour, the anagram on Florence Night- zle, and he only exists on the comic ingale, "Flit on, cheering angel." The stage; "and Sir Peter Chillingly might following quaint conceits have all been have added that Sir Peter Teazle is imcollected by Mr. Wheeler, to whose in- mortal only for the amusement he affords genuity in seeking words in words we to others, not for any intrinsic capacity. have been much indebted in the present One of the family council, however, sugpaper: Lawyers (sly-ware); matrimony gests "Sir Peter Lely," on which Sir Pe(into my arm); melodrama (made moral); ter Chillingly replies with unanswerable Old England (golden land); soldiers (lo! force, "that painter was not an EnglishI dress); solemnity (yes, Milton); poor- man. He was born in Westphalia, fahouse (O! sour hope); telegraph (great mous for hams. I confine my remarks help); Notes and Queries (O! send in a to the children of our native land. I am request); understanding (red nuts and aware that in foreign countries the name gin); sweetheart (there we sat); charades is not an extinguisher to the genius of its (hard case); and catalogue (got as a clue). owner. But why? In other countries its

sound is modified. Pierre Corneille was | beck and call of society. It is to "James," a great man; but I put it to you wheth- even under its worst aspects, exactly er, had he been an Englishman, he could what the footboy is to the flunkey, -and have been the father of European trage- implies that respect or awe to the owner dy as Peter Crow ?" And Sir Peter of such a name is simply impossible. might have added that Peter the Apostle Any one who had a taste for slipping got his weight from his Hebrew name, good-naturedly through the world, and Cephas. Cephas gives the impression of for being famíliarly treated by everybody a rock; Peter the impression of common- he met, might not object to be called Jim. place respectability, with a wavering turn. It is an honest sort of name, and a passNow, Lord Lytton in touching this sub- port, as it were, to kindly treatment. But ject, touches one of the most real griev- it puts dignity and power beyond the ances which children have against rash reach of the most sanguine hope. A man parents, and he touches both sides of it. generally known among his acquaintances He not only deprecates the names which as "Jim" might be very popular and have stamp a child with mediocrity, but he great influence of the coaxing kind, but it deprecates those which stamp him with is impossible he could take up any posian impress of absurd and indecent am- tion requiring observance and reverence. bition. A crusty cousin had suggested It is worth observing that the shrewdthat Sir Peter's child should be called ness of the world has given a certain Hannibal or Charlemagne, in order to elasticity to the moral influence of names, give him adventitious grandeur, on which by inventing a good many different modiSir Peter replies, with great temper and fications of them, and modifications with justice, "On the contrary, if you inflict very various nuances, especially in the on a man the burthen of one of these case of women. You can't have a much names, the glory of which he cannot rea- wider range than is contained, for insonably expect to eclipse or even to stance, in Elizabeth, Eliza, Betty, Betsy, equal, you crush him beneath the weight. Bessy, and Bess, Elizabeth with a 2, If a poet were called John Milton, or again, being really distinct in moral effect William Shakespeare, he would not dare from Elisabeth with an s. No one would to publish even a sonnet. No, the choice dream of spelling the name of St. Elisaof a name lies between the two extremes beth-Mr. Kingsley's heroine - with a of ludicrous insignificance and oppressive; the hard grinding sound of the z would renown." This is very just, and should be altogether inconsistent with her esbring remorse to many a parental heart. sence. But Elisabeth with an s should be There is no more indelible mischief done fair and feminine, with something, perto a child than either a grandiose or a haps, a little secret and brooding in her mean name. The moral influence of nature. On the other hand, Queen Eliznames must be admitted, however, to de-abeth's name should always have the 2,pend in very great degree on somewhat both for the sake of the hardness and imarbitrary and subjective influences. We periousness it gives, and for the sake, have heard a man deplore having been somehow, of the touch of awkwardness called "James" with the utmost pathos, and coarseness it throws in. This is the asserting that it had to some extent made direction in which it has developed into a flunkey of his very soul against his will. the familiarities of Betsy and Betty, the That man, of course, had been a student former clumsy, but shrewd, homely, and of Thackeray, and the subjective influ- trustworthy; the latter loud and fast. ences which worked upon his mind were Lady Betty used to be a common name of the Jeames de la Pluche order. Had enough in the aristocracy at one time, but he instead been steeped in Sir Walter it must have tended to make all its ownScott's "Lady of the Lake," and full of ers vulgar talkers and managers. And the chivalric associations with the Knight just as Elizabeth was degraded into Betof Snowdon,- "And Normans call me sy and Betty, so Elisabeth was familiarJames Fitz-James," he might have re-ized into Bessy and Bess, both fond garded his name as injurious to him, if at all, only through its too unreal, romantic associations. But who could have idealized the nickname Jim? That is, if not so flunkeyish as James, much more irredeemably descriptive of a soul at the

names, the former suggesting a touch of weakness, the latter, like all monosyllabic names, suggesting a want of atmosphere about the character, but also implying a certain practical brevity and decision.

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Sly. John Naps, quotha! what, old John! by Jeronimy, I knew him many a year, mended his pots and helped him empty them. 'A had been a sailor, or to say pirate would be to shoot nearer the

Enter DRAYTON (the poet) and YOUNG RA- clout; when sober his fashion was to say LEIGH (son of Sir Walter).