Catalogue. I apprehend that the author belonged to
the "mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease," as it is something like
Savage's "tenth transmitter" (which, by the bye, your correspondent,
Mr. Gutch, should have said is _said_ to be Pope's)--his
_only good_ line. Here is my authority:

EPIGRAM

_On a certain line of Mr. Br----, author of a copy of verses
called the "British Beauties."--From the_ "GARLAND," _a
collection of Poems_, 1721.

"When one good line did much my wonder raise
In Br----st's works, I stood resolved to praise;
And had, but that the modest _author_ cries,
_Praise undeserv'd is satire in disguise_."

I would add, that I believe this Epigram to be Dr. Kenrick's,
Goldsmith's old persecutor in later years.

JAMES H. FRISWELL

_French Maxim_.--I beg to inform your correspondent "R.V." in
reply to his query (No. 14. p. 215.), that the maxim quoted is the
218th of Rochefoucauld: "L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice
rend a la vertu."

J.H.F.

_Singular Motto_.--The "singular motto" which occasions
"P.H.F.'s" wonder (No. 14. p. 214.), is, without doubt, a cypher,
and only to be rendered by those who have a Key. Such are not
unfrequent in German, Austrian, or Bohemian Heraldry.

J.H.F.

_Discurs. Modest._--At p. 205. No. 13., your correspondent N.
replies to A.T.'s query, that "there can be no reasonable doubt,
that the _original_ authority for _Rem transubstantiationis
patres ne altigisse quidem_, is William Watson in his _Quodlibet_,
ii. 4. p. 31."

By a note of mine, I find that this secular priest, W. Watson, lays
the expression in question to the charge of the Jesuits as "an
heretical and most dangerous assertion of theirs." Admitting,
therefore, the _Discurs. Modest_. to have been published after
Watson's _Decacordon_, i.e. later than 1602 (which can hardly
be doubted), still the further question remains to be asked: "In
what writings of the Jesuits, prior to 1602, had W. Watson himself
found these words, with which he charges them?" Should you think
this further query of importance enough to find a place in your
paper, perhaps some one of your readers might throw yet another ray
of light upon this subject.

J.S.

Oxford

_Pallace_ (No. 13. p. 202).--Mr. Halliwell, in his
_Dictionary of Archaic, &c. Words_, explains this word as used
in Devonshire:--

"_Palace_, a Storehouse."--_Devon_. "At Dartmouth,
I am told there are some of these storehous