"_Words are given to man to conceal his thoughts_" (Vol. vi., p. 575.).--This saying _may_ be anterior to Dr. South's time, as the first number of _The World_, under the assumed name of Adam Fitz-Adam, Thursday, January 4, 1753, begins with the following: "At the village of Arouche, in the province of Estremadura (says an old Spanish author), lived Gonzales {165} de Castro, who from the age of twelve to fifty-two years was deaf, dumb, and blind." After relating the sudden restoration of his faculties, "Fitz-Adam" proceeds: "But, as if the blessings of this life were only given us for afflictions, he began in a few weeks to lose the relish of his enjoyments, and to repine at the possession of those faculties, which served only to discover to him the follies and disorders of his neighbours, and to teach him that _the intent of speech was too often to deceive_." It may serve to probe the matter of _age_ to ask, Who was "the old Spanish author" alluded to? Also, where may be found the hexameter line-- "[Greek: hos ch' heteron men keuthei eni phresin allo de bazei.]" equivalent to the common expression, "He says one thing and means another," and of which the maxim attribute to Goldsmith, Talleyrand, the _Morning Chronicle_, and South, seems only a stronger form? FURVUS. St. James's. _Inscription on Penny of George III._ (Vol. vii., p. 65.).--"Stabit quocunque jeceris" (_it will stand in whatever way you throw it_) is the well-known motto of the Isle of Mann, and has reference to the arms of the island, which are--Gules, three armed legs argent, flexed in triangle, garnished and spurred or. I venture to conjecture that the three legs of Mann were also on the penny J. M. A. mentioned. Some curious lines about this motto are to be found in _The Isle of Mann Guide_, by James Brotherston Laughton, B.A. (Douglas, 1850): one verse is-- "With spurs and bright cuishes, to make them look neat, He rigg'd out the legs; then to make them complete, He surrounded the whole with four fine Roman _feet_. They were 'Quocunque jeceris stabit,' A thorough-paced Roman Iamb." The fore-mentioned work also contains a song entitled "The Copper Row," referring to the disturbances occasioned by the coinage of 1840. THOMPSON COOPER. Cambridge. This is, I suppose, a Manx penny, with the reverse of _three legs_, and the motto, which is usually read "Quocunque jeceris stabit." C. "_Nine Tailors make a Man_" (Vol. vi., pp. 390. 563.).--I extract the following humorous account of the origin of this saying from _The British Apollo_ (12mo., reprint of 1726, vol. i. p. 236.):