3 AUGUST 1889, Page 15

SUN-DIAL INSCRIPTIONS. [To VIZ EDITOR ON TER "SPECTATOR. "]

have not seen Mrs. Gatty's book on this subject, and cannot therefore say if the following appears in it :—

"I am a shadow, so art thou— I mark time, dolt thou P "

This I copied from a dial in the cemetery at Stirling, N.B., in 1874; it is very appropriate.—I am, Sir, &c., SWANN HUBBELL.

Thompson's Lane, Cambridge, July 29th.