This curiously apposite anagram was formed letter by letter from the surnames of the Oxford and Cambridge crews:—
April first nineteen hundred and five. How all warm, as arms, strong as light or dark blue crew’s, all ply oars on very smooth Thames! Oh! shall Cam’s boat lose?
No. LXXIX.—FOR THE CHILDREN
Here is an excellent and amusing pastime for the winter evenings. Cover a square of stout cardboard with glazed black paper, and divide it as is shown in this diagram:—
With a little ingenuity and some sense of fun, any number of grotesque figures can be constructed with the pieces, such as those which we give here as samples. Try it.
The truth that there is often much in common between puzzles and politics is borne out by the following up-to-date anagram:—This Eastern question—“Is quite a hornet’s nest.”
Quite a good anagram, appropriate to the name of a great author, and one of his works runs thus:—
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist.
“Now C. D. strikes till vice hears.”
Confessions of an Opium-Eater