The following salutary advice to book-borrowers might suitably take its position in the collection already alluded to in "N. & Q.":
"Neither blemish this book, or the leaves double down,
Nor lend it to each idle friend in the town;
Return it when read; or if lost, please supply
Another as good, to the mind and the eye.
With right and with reason you need but be friends,
And each book in my study your pleasure attends."
O. P.
Birmingham.
Is not this curious warning worthy of preservation in your columns? It is copied from a black-letter label pasted to the inside of an old book cover: