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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. vi. AUG. 17, 1912.

be found in the Bombay Military Consulta- tions at the India Office. It is much to be regretted that L. L. K. had no time to copy the inscriptions in the British Cemetery at Goa, where many good men laid down their lives in holding fast to India.

C. B. N.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (US. v. 348). The poem ' Earth's Angels,' com- mencing

Why come not spirits from the realms of glory ? is to be found in ' Lyra Anglicana.'

A. B.

(US. v. 488.)

In The Spectator of 29 Jan., 1910, the following letter appeared, signed Herbert W. Horwill :

"In your article on 'The Elections so Far' in last week's Spectator, you refer to Abraham Lincoln's great principle that though you may fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, you cannot fool all the people all the time. In the interests of accuracy it may be worth while to point out that there is no ground whatever for the popular attribution of this maxim to Lincoln. Its authorship was investigated a few years ago by Mr. Spofford, the assistant librarian of Congress, who could find no trace of it in any of the great President's speeches, papers, letters, or recorded sayings. Neither Mr. Hay nor Mr. ISicholas, the joint authors of the standard bio- graphy of Lincoln, knew anything about it. Mr. Spofford's enquiries led him to the conclusion that the originator of this much-quoted sentence was Mr. Phineas T. Barnum, whose qualifications for generalising OH such a subject every one must recognise."

LAWRENCE PHILLIPS. Theological College, Lichfield.

" Si JEUNESSE SAVAIT " (11 S. VI. 66).

Replying to ST. SWITHIN'S note, I would observe that this head-note appears on a most charming and affecting poem by Mr. Austin Dobson called ' Pot-Pourri.' I be- came interested in the quotation, and wrote Mr. Austin Dobson thereon. I think, with- out breaking the canons of good taste, I may append, as I now do, his reply to me :

'' ' Si jeunesse savoit ! si vieillesse pouvoit ! ' is attributed in King's ' Classical and Foreign Quota- tions to Les Premices ' of one H. Estienne. There is also said to be a proverb of the twelfth centurv which runs,

Si jeune savoit et vieux pouvoit, Jamais disette n'y auroit. This may be roughly rendered :

If youth but knew and age were able, Then poverty would be a fable ! "

JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.

CHAINED BOOKS (11 S. vi. 69). When William Blades in 1890jissued his " Biblio- graphical Miscellanies," Parts II., III., IV., and V., entitled ' Books in Chains,' which he compiled largely from the lists in ' N. &"Q./ I interleaved my copy, and have since inserted numerous additional references, illustrations, and notes. This volume is at the service of your correspondent here, should he desire to make extracts from it.

W. B. GERISH.

Bishop's Stortford.

In Egglescliffe Church, co. Durham, are two chained books ' Eikon Basilike ' and Jewel's 'Apology.' See Proc. Soc. Antiq. Newc., Third Series, iv. 251. R. B R.

The only reference I know is Blades's ' Books in Chains,' 1890. All the libraries are catalogued by alphabet, and there are illustrations. There have since been notices and pictures in various illustrated papers The Daily Graphic and others but nothing new. If MR. STEEL will write me, I willsend him a catalogue of a library mentioned by Blades in which there were two chained books. S. L. PETTY.

Ulverston.

There is a list of those to be found in parish churches on pp. 338-40 of ' English Church Furniture,' by Dr. J. Charles Cox (Methuen, 1907).

Those in the interesting parish church of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, were the gift of a former vicar, to whose memory the following lines appeared on a monument of some kind, formerly in the south aisle:

September 12, 1652, dyed and here lyeth Interred, the Body of the industrious, learned,

Humble, peaceable, charitable and faith full Pastor of Wooton Wawen, Mr. George Dunscombe,

His people's joy, the Clergy's glasse, His life a living Preacher was. A life as spotless as the Sun, Oh that the sand had longer run ! But such a soule, so pure, so good, As if the first man still had stood : Or failing as he did, had done No prejudice to this his Sonne, Excepting this alone, that he Must fill a grave as well as we. Such a rais'd soule much fitter was For Heaven, than a lower place, And if to Heaven he had gone Like Enoch by translation, Or in such state had thither rid As the Seraphicall brother did. This honor none had thought too high For Grace of such sublimity.

A. C. C.

[MR. R. A. PEDDIE and MR. JOHN A. RANDOLPH also thanked for replies.]