“The Anglo-Japanese treaty of Alliance.”
Yea, Fate enjoins to help a gallant race
or
Hail, gallant East! Fear not, enjoy peace
or
A peace angel, then joy to all in far East.
A WONDERFUL ANAGRAM
If the letters which spell the names of the twelve months are shaken up and recast, these appropriate lines and their title are formed—
POEM
Just a jury by number, each a scrap of year,
A number recording every jumble, tumble, tear!
No. LVII.—THE NABOB’S DIAMONDS
An Indian Nabob left a casket of valuable diamonds to his children under the following conditions:—The first was to take a diamond and one-seventh of the remainder; the second was to take two and a seventh of the then remainder; the third three and a seventh of the rest, and so on, on similar lines, till all the diamonds were taken. Each of the children had then exactly an equal share. How many diamonds were there, and how many children?
A PRIZE ANAGRAM
It would be difficult to find a more ingenious and appropriate anagram than this, which took a prize in Truth in 1902, and connects the King’s recovery with the Coronation.