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 12 s. in. JAN. e, 1917.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

Pourquoi ce petit peuple infime, Plus grand que Rome par le cceur, Au salaire du de'shonneur Prefe>ant tin risque sublime, S'est-il 61anc le premier ? C'est pour un chiffon de papier.

Pourquoi la Heine des Empires, Des que le crime fiit bant, Pour ameuter les oceans N'eut-elle qu'un seul mot a dire : " A moi, mes enfants, ralliez ! " C'est pour un chiffon de papier.

Tous, tous tes peaples, 6 Justice, Dresses centre le Sceterat, Pourquoi portent-ils au combat L'avidit6 du sacrifice, L'enthousiasme du charnier ? C'est pour un chiffon de papier.

Et quand la bataille est fmie,

Quand les ^toiles font 1'appel

Des he>os tombed face au ciel,

Pourquoi la sereine agonie

De ces regards extasies?

C'est pour un chiffon de papier.

FOB A SCRAP OF PAPER.

For what this whirlwind, all a-flame ?

This thunderstroke of hellish ire,

Setting the universe a-fire ? While millions upon millions came

Into a very storm of war ? For a scrap of paper.

For what this people, small in space, Greater in heart than erst was Rome, Sublimely risked the wreck of home

And spurned the wages of disgrace ? So rushed it foremost to the war ? For a scrap of paper.

For what the Empress of the Sea ? Soon as the crime had come to light, Called on her ocean-sons to fight,

And her one word : " Rally to me ! " Sufficed to bring them to the war ? For a scrap of paper.

For what do all just peoples show

Avidity to peril life,

Enthusiasm in the strife Against the homicidal Foe

And his accursed deeds in war ? For a scrap of paper.

For what, when victory is won, And fallen heroes face the sky, Serene in all their agony,

Will stars, that call them up, look on The ecstasy of finished war ? For a scrap of paper.

EDWARD BRABROOK. Langham House, Wellington, Surrey.

' ZORIADA ' (A.D. 1786) AND THE WORDBOOKS.

" Zoriada : or, Village Annals. A Novel*" In Three Volumes.

How many a rose is boni to blush unseen, And ivaste its Sweetness in the desert Air.

London : Printed for T. Axtell, Royal Ex- change. MDCCLXXXVI."

is the title of a romance which was added to the Bodleian Library on Dec. 21, 1911. Vol. iv. of " BibliotheCa Britannica ; or, A General Index to < British and Foreign Literature. By Robert Watt, M.D." (Edin- burgh, 1824), records: "Zoriada. 1786. Z. ; or the [sic] Village Annals ; a Xovel. . Lond. Axtell, 3 vols. 12mo. 7s. 6cZ." There is no copy of it in the British Museum. There, however, one sees " Zorai'de, ou annales d'un village, traduit de 1'anglois. 3 torn. Londres, 1787 " : a fact which shows that it attracted some readers when it was a novelty. Having noted, since " The History of Two Orphans. By William Toldervy " (London, 1756) came to the Bodleian Library,, on Feb. 29, 1916, that the two works re- semble each other in so many details that we may guess the later ' Zoriada,' to be also the work of Toldervy, probably published posthumously, I purpose in a subsequent article to tabulate some of them. Here I have enlisted 170 words from ' Zoriada ' some- of which did not find a place in ' The Oxford English Dictionary,' hereinafter signified by D., as in my note in ' N. & Q.,' 12 S. i. 503. They may give a clue to the identity of the author. T. means Toldervy.

AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF 170 WORDS NOTED IN ' ZORIADA.'

Acquiescing, ii. 147...., the moment Edmund had made his acquiescing bow, (D. not before 1842.)

Adventuring, ii. 1. The adventuring hero of this formidable scene gave himself up for lost; (D. not 1796-1677.)

All-conquering, iii. 101 . . . ., I am so close an imitator of this all-conquering East-Indian. (D. 1667 only.)

All-subduing, ii. 23 .... sharing my title and fortune with the all-subduing stranger; (D. illus- trates it not.)

Argufy, i. 121. . . ., or suppose we cannot see, because we cannot argufy ? (D. 1751, 1771, 1800, . 1865, 1876.)

Armed chair, i. 37. . . ., and the stranger wag soon introduced into a dressing room, where, seated in an armed chair,. . . ., was Mrs. Withers,. (D. not 1795-1693.)

Arrow, ii. 27 . . . ., lodged an arrow in the breast of innocence. (D. not 1854-1751.)

Attaching, i. 170. . . ., every soft and attaching grace was lighted up in her countenance : (D. not. before 1813.)