doubted that her brain originated it; for it was not an order of brain that
packs wisdom in few syllables.

"'After me the Deluge,' said Prince Metternich; a fine saying, but a
false prophecy we trust."

I quote this from an admirable paper in _The Times_ of to-day (April 10.)
on the Crystal Palace, and quote the subscribed from an _Essai sur la
Marquise de Pompadour_, prefixed to the _Memoires de Madame du Hausset,
Femme de Chambre de Madame Pompadour_, in Barriere's _Bibliotheque des
Memoires_.

"Madame de Pompadour, dans l'ivresse de la prosperite, repondit a
toutes les menaces de l'avenir par ces trois [_quatre_] mots, "APRES
NOUS, LE DELUGE," qu'elle repetait souvent."

In this case, "Pompadour _v._ Metternich," surely a verdict must be
returned for the lady, unless Voltaire puts in a future claim.

DOUGLAS JERROLD.

West Lodge, Putney Common.

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BISHOP THORNBOROUGH'S MONUMENT.

[The writer of the following interesting communication does not appear
to be aware that he is obliging us and a correspondent D. Y., who had
asked (Vol. iii., p. 168.) for an explanation of the phrase _Denarius
Philosophorum_, in the Bishop's Monument.]

Our local antiquaries have long been puzzled by an inscription in the Lady
chapel of our cathedral. It stands on the monument of Bishop Thornborough,
and was prepared by himself fourteen years before his decease in 1641, at
the age of ninety-four. He was addicted to alchymy, and published a book in
1621, entitled [Greek: Lithotheorikos], _sive_, _Nihil aliquid_, _omnia_,
_&c._ In the course of some recent studies in the Pythagorean philosophy,
my attention was accidentally engaged by this {300} inscription; and it at
once struck me that it was _thence_ that the explanation was to be derived.
The epitaph is as follows: on one side,

"Denarius Philosophorum, Dum Spiro, Spero."

on the other,

"In Uno, 2^o. 3^o. 4^{or} 10. non Spirans Spera_bo_."

The latter letters are now effaced.

It is well known that the Pythagoreans found all the modes of space in the
relations of numbers.

The monad, or unit, was not only the _point_ whence all extension proceeds,
but it further symbolised the First Principle, the origin of all. The duad
represented the line, as being bounded by two points or monads. The triad
stood for surface as length and width. The tetrad for the perfect figure,
the cube, length,