Anagrams are sometimes found in old epitaphial inscriptions. For example, at St. Andrews:— Catharine Carstairs, _Casta rara Christiana_. _Chaste, rare Christian._ At Newenham church, Northampton:— William Thorneton. _O little worth in man._ At Keynsham:— Mrs. Joane Flover. _Love for anie._ At Mannington, 1631:— Katherine Lougher, _Lower taken higher_. Maitland has the following curious specimen:— How much there is in a word—_monastery_, says I: why, that makes _nasty Rome_; and when I looked at it again, it was evidently _more nasty_—a very vile place _or mean sty_. _Ay, monster_, says I, you are found out. What monster? said the Pope. What monster? said I. Why, your own image there, _stone Mary_. That, he replied, is _my one star_, my Stella Maris, my treasure, my guide! No, said I, you should rather say, _my treason_. _Yet no arms_, said he. No, quoth I, quiet may suit best, as long as you have _no mastery_, I mean _money arts_. No, said he again, those are _Tory means_; and Dan, _my senator_, will baffle them. I don’t know that, said I, but I think one might make no _mean story_ out of this one word—_monastery_. CHRONOGRAMS. Addison, in his remarks on the different species of false wit, (Spect. No. 60,) thus notices the chronogram. “This kind of wit appears very often on modern medals, especially those of Germany, when they represent in the inscription the year in which they were coined. Thus we see on a medal of Gustavus Adolphus the following words:— §ChrIstVs DuX ergo trIVMphVs.§ If you take the pains to pick the figures out of the several words, and range them in their proper order, you will find they amount to MDCXVVVII, or 1627, the year in which the medal was stamped; for as some of the letters distinguish themselves from the rest and overtop their fellows, they are to be considered in a double capacity, both as letters and as figures. Your laborious German wits will turn over a whole dictionary for one of these ingenious devices. A man would think they were searching after an apt classical term; but instead of that they are looking out a word that has an L, an M, or a D, in it. When therefore we meet with any of these inscriptions, we are not so much to look in them for the thought as for the year of the Lord.” Apropos of this humorous allusion to the _Germanesque_ character of the chronogram, it is worthy of notice that European tourists find far more numerous examples of it in the inscriptions on the churches on the banks of the Rhine than in any other part of the continent. * * * * *