_Epigram on Erasmus._--The following epigram, written in a fly-leaf of a copy of the _Epistolæ Obscuroram Virorum_, published at Frankfort, 1624, in the possession of a friend, is commended to your notice; not, however, without a suspicion of its having been printed already: "Ut Rhadamantheum stetit ante tribunal Erasmus, Ante jocos scribens serio damnor, ait Cui Judex, libri dant seria damna jocosi, Si tibi culpa jocus, sit tibi poena jocus." _Anglicè_, T. CORBETT. "Erasmus standeinge fore hell's tribune said, For writeinge iest I am in earnest paid. The iudge replied, Iests will in earnest hurt, Sport was thy fault, then let thy paine be sport." D. B. J. _Etymology of London._--I believe the word London has never yet received a satisfactory explanation, and it is, perhaps, too late in the day to try to explain it entirely. It has always, however, been supposed that it was significant in the old British language. It has been explained as "the town of ships," the final syllable _don_, formerly _dun_, meaning a town. Several other explanations have been given also on the same principle, namely, that the final syllable meant a town or fortified place, and the first was the characteristic distinguishing it from other towns or _duns_ in the neighbourhood. This mode of explanation is repugnant to the general principles of British topographical nomenclature: for they generally put the general name first, and the characteristic last. Might the first syllable "Lon" not be a corruption of the British "Llan," so common yet in names of places, and so universally retained in Wales to this day? Llan means a level place generally, as most of your readers who are versant in those subjects know. The _don_ is not so easily explained, but perhaps some of your readers may be able to assist in finding a meaning. "Don" might indeed still mean an enclosed strong place, and the meaning of the whole word "London" would then be _Llandun_, or "the level ground near the fort or strong camp." Perhaps some of your correspondents may be able to offer something confirmatory or adverse to this explanation, and in either case I should join with the rest of your readers in thanking them. M. C. E. _Verses on Shipmoney._-- "A coppy of certaine Verses dispersed in and about London in febr. 1634 in ye 10th year of ye Raigne of ye King Charls occasioned by ye eager prosecucon of Shipmoney, and Imprisonm'ts therefore.