278 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.vm. APRIL 3, 1921.. BLOTJNT OF LINCOLNSHIRE (12 S. viii. 210). It appears from the ' Visitation of Shrop- shire' (Harleian Society, vol. xxviii. p. 55) that Thomas Blount, brother of the first Lord Mount joy, was first married to Anne, only daughter and heiress of Sir John Hally, by whom he had two children: a son Robert, whose male line became extinct in the next generation, and a daughter Eliza- beth married +o Richard Hansa,rd. His son Richard, of Mapledurham, is the only child recorded by the second marriage. H. J. B. CLEMENTS. Killadoon, Celbridge. BOOK BORROWERS (12 S. viii. 208, 253). If a memory extending over more than 60 years can be trusted, the following is an authentic version of the schoolboy poem quoted by Mr. Clarke : Steal not this book for fear of shame, For in it is the owner's name, And when you die the Lord will say,
- Where is that book you stole away?"
And if you say, " I do not know," The Lord will say, " Go down below." T. GIDEON. In reply to Mr. W. COURTHOPE FORMAN I may say that 1 did not directly attribute the authorship of the lines to Mr. Bury, though, from their age, I suspected them to be his and. so used the word "penned" (which I now see was misleading) instead of " transcribed." I now yield the claim to H. D. Cole on the authority of The Con- noisseur quoted by Miss BEATRICE BOYCE. J. B. McGovERN. St. Steven's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. It is probably rare for a would-be book- borrower to be given a book when he only expects to borrow one. Any person who was intimate with James Robert Hope- Scott, and wishing to borrow a book from his well-stocked library, must have had a delightful experience when he found that he could have a longed-for book, not merely by way of loan, but as a gift. Cardinal Newman says in his sermon ' In the World, but not of the World,' preached May 5, 1873, at the funeral of Hope-Scott : " He bought books freely, theological, historical, and of general literature ; but his love of giving was greater than his love of collecting. He could not keep them ; he gave them away again ; he may be said to have given away whole libraries." An excellent representation of George Richmond's fine portrait of Hope-Scott given in ' The Memorials of Mr. Serjeant Bellasis ' is before me as I write. It shows the charming, ideal countenance of the- happy possessor, among so many gracious qualities, of that of a cheerful giver, or,, rather, what is more uncommon, the cheerful giver of books from his own liberary. R. Y. PICKERING. Conheath, Dumfriesshire. When I was a child, we were in the habit of writing : Black is the raven, blacker the rook, But blackest the one who stealeth this book, on the fly-leaves of our books. C. B. E. Many years ago this was my bookplate :-. To whpmsoe'er this book I lend, Serve it well as if a friend, Or as if it belonged to you. Mindful of dirt and the thumb-screw. When you have read its pages through Return it to George James Dew. GEORGE J. DEW.. " MARK RUTHERFORD " (12 S. viii. 231). In * Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association,' vol. v. (Clarendon- Press), there is an admirable appreciation of* "Mark Rutherford" by A. E. Taylor, with some biographical details concerning Hale White. R. A. H. .According to 'Who was Who, 1897-1916,' William Hale White had retired from his post as Assistant Director of Contracts in the Admiralty, when he died Mar. 14, 1913, and his publications were as follows : ' The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford,' ' Mark Rutherford's Deliverance,' 1885; 'The Revolution in Tanner's Lane,' 1887; ' Miriam's Schooling,' 1890 ; Spinoza's
- Ethic'; 'Spinoza's Emendation of the
Intellect ' ; ' Catherine Furze,' 1894 ; ' Clara Hopgood,' 1896; 'A Description of the Wordsworth and Coleridge MSS.' in the possession of Mr. T. Norton Longman, 1897; 'An Examination of the Charge of Apostasy against Wordsworth,' 1898 ; 'Pages from a Journal,' 1900; 'John Bunyan,' 1905 ; ' Johnson's Rambler,' 'Selections,' with Preface, 1907; "More Pages from a Journal,' 1910 ; ' Papers in The Nation. HARMETOPEGOS. THE GREEN MAN, ASHBOTJRNE (12 S. viii. 29, 77, 113, 157, 176). Anent the reference made by Persicus to the " public- house close to Portland Road Station," I cull the following from ' The History of St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, and it& Environs ' : " We must look across opposite at the Green Man Tavern at 383 Euston Road which covers 1
