"The _Greek_ that denied the _depositum_ of his friend, and offered to swear at the altar," with "_Spartano_ cuidam respondit Pythia vates; Haud impunitum quondam fore, quod dubitaret _Depositum_ retinere et fraudem _jure_ tueri _Jurando_." The Spartan's name was Glaucus. The story is told at large in Herodot. vi. 86. See Stocker's note on Juv. _Sat._ xiii. 199. The use of "sibi," in the extract from the _Legenda Aurea_, is new to me. Is it common in monkish Latin? C. FORBES. Temple. _Anagrams_ (Vol. iv., pp. 226. 297.).--MR. BREEN put another Query besides "Where shall we find six good anagrams?" He asked, "How comes it that a species of composition once so popular should have become extinct?" Let me venture to refer MR. BREEN to _The Spectator_ for an answer to this inquiry; where, in Addison's brilliant papers on "False Wit" (Nos. 58. &c.), he will find the whole family of ingenious quibblings,--anagrams, acrostics, chronograms, puns, bouts-rimes, &c.,--mown down to their just level. And MR. BREEN cannot, I am sure, as a man of taste, fail to be delighted, even although he may think the following passage (which I quote chiefly as a warning against the rise of an anagrammatric epidemic among your correspondents) a little severe on his old friends: "The acrostic was probably invented about the same time with the anagram, though it is impossible to decide whether the inventor of the one or the other were the greater blockhead." It is a tempting folly I admit for an idle hour, and I must plead guilty to having (in consequence of MR. BREEN'S letter) wasted nearly a whole evening in discovering that "NOTES AND QUERIES" "Enquires on Dates!" and also offers the following warning to its contributors-- "Send quite Reason;" while as an encouragement it observes (so an ingenious friend informs us)-- "O send in a Request." HERMES.