Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature

by Unknown

The wife’s ambition and the parson’s dues.

Now if your nobler spirit can divine

A corresponding word for every line,

By the first letters clearly will be shown

An ancient city of no small renown.

Palindromic Enigma

First find out a word that doth silence proclaim, }

And that backwards and forwards is always the same; } Mum.

Then next you must find a feminine name, }

That backwards and forwards is always the same; } Anna.