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 9 th S. I. JUNE 25, '98.]

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the following in * N. & Q.' some years ago, but I cannot remember under what heading it appeared :

This book belongs to.

Si quis furetur

Per collum pendetur

In hoc modo.

Below should be a sketch of a gallows and a body hanging thereto. JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

In my schooldays the four lines appeared in almost every book of every boy ; but the last two lines ran thus :

If you this precious volume bone Jack Ketch will claim you as his own.

But book -borrowing has never been stopped by this or any other proposed remedy, and there are few who do not suffer from it. I heard of the owner of a library who used to insert a small gibbet, cut out of cardboard, with the borrower's name thereon, in the vacant place on the shelf, and projecting.

R. DENNY URLIN. Grosvenor Club.

NEWINGTON CAUSEWAY (9 th S. i. 425). I think BRUTUS has altogether misunderstood the meaning of Sir Walter Besant in the article on 'South London' in the March number of the Pall Mall Magazine. Quoting from the article in question, your corre- spondent tells us that " there were buildings along both sides of the Causeway as far as St. George's Church," and interpolates the remark that by the word "Causeway" he sup- poses that Newington Causeway was meant, and that "St. George's Church was never situated there." And so would say Sir Walter Besant and any one who knew the locality at all. By reference to the February number of the Pall Mall Magazine, p. 176, will be seen an illustration of ' Merchants crossing South- wark Swamp,' which shows clearly what a " causeway " really is viz., literally speaking, as defined by the ' Encyclopaedic Dictionary,' "a way raised above the level of the sur- rounding ground and paved," or " a built way across a swamp or the like, and supported by an embankment, or by a retaining wall "; just, indeed, what we call an embank- ment in these days. With regard to the thoroughfare now known as Newington Causeway, the name itself would appear to be comparatively modern, for in Thorn- ton's well-known book on London, speaking of the " village " of Newington Butts, it is stated to extend from the southern end of Blackman Street to wards Kennington, thereby going far to prove that in 1784, the date of the publication of this book, the name was,

at any rate, not in general use, if it were known at all, and that the road was known as Blackman Street from the New Kent Road up to the spot where it joins the Borough High Street, which would appear to have been where it is now entered by Great Dover Street, just where St. George's Church stands, and where the " Causeway " of Sir Walter Besant ended. No doubt the road itself is a very old one, and nothing seems more natural than that the old name of what must be con- ceded to be its older portion should in process of time be thought appropriate for the part immediately leading from the " village," first of Newington, and afterwards from those of Wai worth, Camber well, Kennington, Peck- ham, Brixton, and other places in rural Surrey ; but it seems clear it could have nothing in common with the old South wark marsh 1 roadway, although subsequently really a continuation of it. I, too, remember St. Margaret's Hill, where the old Town Hall stood, and believe that its removal only took place when improvements came about through the formation of Southwark Street, somewhere about the year 1860.

W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. 14, Artillery Buildings, Victoria Street, S. W.

SCRAPS OF NURSERY LORE (9 th S. i. 267, 432). Baron Munchausen's experience is not narrated as a disaster, but reported as a phenomenon. If I remember aright, it arose from his lack of buckshot in a sporting expe- dition in a forest, when he had, in con- sequence, to resort to the expedient of sub- stituting for the proper charge of his fowling piece the stones of some cherries he was eating. These, implanted in the osfrontis of a lordly stag, are said to have germinated, and when the noble shikar encountered the same animal some years afterwards he dis- covered the result of his " scratch " shot to be a well-grown cherry-tree uprearing from between the beast's antlers. NEMO.

Temple.

MONKS AND FRIARS (9 th S. i. 364, 455). Your latest correspondent, M. C., takes on himself (in somewhat ex cathedrd fashion) to assert that J. B. S. (whose letter I read with much interest) "is wrong in thinking that friars are not monks," inasmuch as " all friars are monks," and "itisquitepermissible to speak of a Dominican monk." Pace M. C. I venture to say that it is nothing of the kind. I have been a Benedictine monk for twenty years, and I have never met with a properly in- structed Catholic, much less a priest or religious, who did not know that monks and friars are essentially different, and that to