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 456 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.vm. ^4,1921. to sing confirms mine, and she is able to add the final verse : Shout, shout for victory ; Shout, shout for victory, The glorious work is done. Her impression is that we were taught both the words and the tune by our grand- mother (our mother's mother), who was a devout member of the Wesley an Society (no Church in those days !), and whose grand- father had been a companion of Wesley's in his first visit to the neighbourhood. C. C. B. KING OF ENGLAND : LORD OF BAUX (12 S. viii. 390). Mr. Archibald Marshall, in his delightful book ; A Spring Walk through Provence,' devotes a whole chapter to Les Baux and its historical associations. If our Queen inherited the title of Countess of Baux it would no doubt be through our Angevin Kings. C. C. B. BOOK BORROWERS (12 S. viii. 208, 253, 278, 296, 314, 350, 377, 394, 417). The numerous inscriptions which have been furnished under this heading plainly con- vey the views of many who value their books and protest against their misappro- priation by inconsiderate borrowers. But hardly one of those which have appeared is witty enough to be remembered. The following lines are copied from an old " Common -place Book " which I com- menced more than 40 years ago, and are unfortunately anonymous. From this I infer that at the date of transcription I was unacquainted (as I still am) with the author's name or I should have noted it. But readers of * N. & Q.' will, I think, agree with me that the lines are worth preserving. BORROWED BOOKS. I of my Spenser quite bereft Last Winter sore was shaken, Of Lamb I've not a quarter left Nor could I save my Bacon. They pick'd my Locke, to me far more Than Bramah's patent worth, And now my losses I deplore Without a Home on earth. They still have made me slight returns, And thus my grief divide ; For oh ! they've cured me of my Burns, And eased my Akenside. But all I think I shall not say, Nor let my anger burn : For as they have not found me Gay They have not left me Sterne. Should any reader recognize these lines and be able to give the author's name, I should be glad to know it. J. E. HARTING. " NOTHING BUT THEIR EYES TO WEEP WITH" (12 S. viii. 228, 316, 435). In the hope of stimulating the inquiry may I communicate one other example of the French use of the phrase, which has since been quoted in Professor Deissmann's No. 56/62, p. 181 ? Near the beginning of Balzac's ' Le Pere Goriot ' (p. 11 of the edi- tion in the Bibliotheque Larousse), the widowed boarding-house keeper, Madame Vauquer, says of her husband that : II s'etait mal conduit envers elle, ne lui avait laisse que les yeux pour pleurer, cette maisoii pour vivre, et le droit de ne compatir a aucune infortune, parce que, disait-elle, elle avait souffert tout ce qu'il est possible de souffrir. Here, of course, the phrase has nothing to do with military operations, and it will be observed that M. Vauquer had left his wife not only her eyes to weep with, but the boarding-house and the priceless immunity against new misfortunes. But it looks as though the phrase about the eyes might be a popular expression in French. Balzac's book was first published in 1835. L. R. M. STRACHAN. Birmingham University. " Zoo" (12 S. viii. 368, 413). T remember some humorous lines, probably written before 1847, in which some noise or disturbance is compared to the hullabaloo Of the carnivora, going to be fed At the Regent's Park, or the Surrey Zoo. Can anyone supply the reference ? J. T. F. Winterton, Lines. G. A. COOKE AND HIS COUNTY ITINERARIES (12 S. viii. 393, 436). George Alexander Cooke published * The Modern British Traveller ; or Tourists' Pocket Directory ' in 47 volumes between 1802 (?) and 1810(1) There were several re -issues and Sir George Fordham says, " All that can be said with any certainty as to this publica- tion is that it was commenced not earlier than 1801 and was continued by reprints up to as late as 1830." Each volume contained a map, sometimes uncoloured, but in " the superior editions " coloured. Cook was editor of ' The Universal System of Geography ' and, in regard to Kent, published a volume called ' Walks through Kent.' More than one edition of this appeared, one dated 1819 and described as " a new edition corrected by J. N. Brewer."
 * Evangelischer Wochenbrief,' third series,