e above as the
inscription on a tomb-stone, and requests an explanation. It is very
probable that the stone-cutter made a mistake, and cut "Rab. Surdam"
instead of "Rap. Surum," which would be a contraction for "Rapax Suorum,"
alluding to Death or the Grave. It seems {43} impossible to extract a
meaning, from "Rab. Surdam" by any stretch of Latinity.

G.F.G.

Edinburgh.

_"Fronte Capillata," &c._ (Vol. iii., p. 8.).--The hexameter cited vol.
iii., p. 8., and rightly interpreted by E.H.A., is taken (with the slight
alteration of _est_ for the original _es_) from "Occasio: Drama, P. Joannis
David, Soc. Jesu Sacerd. Antv. MDCV.," appended to that writer's _Occasio,
Arrepta, Neglecta_; in which the same implied moral is expressed, with this
variation:

"Fronte capillitium gerit, ast glabrum occiput illi."

G.A.S.

This verse is alluded to by Lord Bacon in his Essay on Delays:

"Occasion (as it is in the common verse) turneth a bald noddle after
she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken; or, at least,
turneth the handle of the bottle first to be received, and after the
belly, which is hard to clasp."

L.

_Taylor's Holy Living._--I should be obliged by any of your readers kindly
informing me whether there is any and what foundation for the statement in
the _Morning Chronicle_ of Dec. 27th last, that that excellent work, _Holy
Living_, which I have always understood to be Bishop Taylor's, "is now
_known_" (so says a constant reader) "not to be the production of that
great prelate, but to have been written by a Spanish friar. On this account
it is not included in the works of Bishop Taylor, lately printed at the
Oxford University Press." I do not possess the Oxford edition here
mentioned, so cannot test the accuracy of the assertion in the last
sentence but if the first part of the above extract be correct, it is, to
say the least, singular that Mr. Bohn, in his recent edition of the work,
should be entirely silent on the subject. I should like to know who and
what is this "Spanish friar?" has he not "a local habitation and a name?"

W.R.M.

[A fraud was practised on the memory of Bishop Jeremy Taylor soon after
his death, in ascribing to him a work entitled _Contemplations of the
State of Man in this Life, and in that which is to come_, and which
Archdeacon Churton, in _A Letter to Joshua Watson, Esq._, has shown,
with great acuteness and learning, was in real