26. CHRONOGRAM

The battle of Montl’héry was fought in 1465. Its date can be committed to memory in the sentence which might have been a battle-cry—“A cheval, à cheval, gendarmes, à cheval!” For it is arrived at by the addition of the Roman numerals which this contains, thus:—

C=100
V=5
L=50
C=100
V=5
L=50
M=1000
C=100
V=5
L=50
Total=1465

27. A TOUR DE FORCE

In this most remarkable sentence of only twenty-eight letters, every letter of the alphabet is used—

IF JACK QUIZ BALD NYMPHS GROW VEXT.

28. AN OLD TALE OF A TUB

Tom Hood, seeing over the door of a public-house BEAR SOLD HERE, said that it was rightly spelt if it was the landlord’s own bruin!

29. ALL THE ALPHABET

Here is an ingenious rhyming couplet of only 33 letters, in which every letter of the alphabet is used—