14 JUNE 1924, Page 13

PROFESSOR MARGOLIOUTII'S ANAGRAMS.

. [To the Editor of the SeEc-r,vron..] Sra,--Dr. Leaf's anagram of the first line of the Medea which appeared in your issue last week, is no doubt a piece of amusing nonsense, but it is unfair. The line of Euripides contains thirty-one letters, and Mr. Leaf's anagram uses only twenty-seven of them ; so that there is an awkward remainder of erif which does not look promising. However, by adding the two elided vowels in Euripides' line, we -can get eicrs-te, i.e., "Marvellous fellow," clearly the poet's admiration either for Professor Margoliouth or for Dr. Leaf ! But it is very easy to make anagrams if you merely pick and choose the letters that suit your point, and reject those