Madam, I’m Adam!
When Charles Grant, Colonial Secretary, was made Lord Glenelg, in 1835, he was called Mr Facing-both-ways, because his title Glenelg was a perfect palindrome, that could be read with the same result from either end.
It was a member of the same family who sought to prove the antiquity of his race by altering an “i” into an “r” in his family Bible, so that the text ran, “there were Grants on the earth in those days.”
A GOOD PALINDROME
“Roma, ibi tibi sedes, ibi tibi amor,” which may be rendered, “At Rome you live, at Rome you love;” is a sentence which reads alike from either end.
A QUAINT PALINDROME
Eve damned Eden, mad Eve!
This sentence reads alike from either end.
A good specimen of a palindrome is this German saying that can be read from either end:—
Bei Leid lieh stets Heil die Lieb
(In trouble comfort is lent by love.)