13 JULY 1889, Page 16

SUN-DIAL INSCRIPTIONS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—To the inscriptions mentioned in Mr. MacLeod's letter in the Spectator of July 6th, allow me to add two, one serious and one jocular, which I have lately seen in the South of France. At 1Jrrugne, between St. Jean de Luz and the Spanish frontier, is a dial on the church-tower, with the words, —" Vulnerant omnes : nitima necat." And at Libourne, over a dial on the front of an auberge, is the legend,—" C'est l'heure de boire." It would appear that at Libourne there is an opening for the Blue-Ribbon Army.—! am, Sir, &c.,