R. C. WARDE.

Kidderminster.

_German Book Inscription._--You have not yet, I think, had a German

book-inscription: allow me to send you the following out of an old _Faust_,

bought last year at Antwerp:

"Dieses Buch ist mir lieb,

Wer es stielt ist ein Dieb;

Mag er heissen Herr oder Knecht,

Haengen ist sein verdientes Recht."

Underneath is the usual picture of the gallows-tree and its fruit.

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