Southey adds, in note: "Cowper wrote from his own recollection here. In one of his letters, he says: 'Nothing could express my rapture when Wolfe made the conquest of Quebec.'" C. W. B. _Shakspeare Readings: "Love's Labour's Lost," Act V. Sc. 2._ (Vol. vi., pp. 268. 296.).-- "That sport best pleases which the least knows how: Where zeal strives to content, and the contents _Dies_ in the _zeal_ of that which it presents." The difficulty, as MR. KNIGHTLY says, is in the word _dies_, which is unintelligible; for the meaning is obviously the reverse of _dies_, namely, that the _contents_, that is, "the satisfaction of the audience, arises from accepting the well-meant zeal of the poor performers." This sense will be produced by the smallest possible typographical correction--_L_ for _D_. "The contents _Lies_ (i.e. exists) in the zeal," &c. This at least is intelligible, which no other reading seems to be; and I need not point out that there are no two letters so easily confounded, either in MS. or type, as _L_ and _D_. Most editions now read _die_, to agree with the plural _contents_; that question however, does not affect my emendation, which seems to me very like some of the best in MR. COLLIER'S folio. C. _Inscriptions in Books_ (Vol. vii., p. 127.).--The following lines are often written in Bibles, and other works of a devotional nature: "This is Giles Wilkinson his book. God give him grace therein to look: Nor yet to look, but understand, That learning's better than house and land: For when both house and land are spent, Then learning is most excellent." I find that the following formula is much used among the poor in country villages: "John Stiles is my name, England is my nation, ---- is my dwelling-place, But Christ is my salvation. And when I'm dead and in the grave, And all my bones are rotten; This when you see, remember me, Though I am long forgotten." Another I am acquainted with is of as menacing a description as some of the last quoted by BALLIOLENSIS. It is, however, so common as hardly to be worth the notice of "N. & Q.": "Gideon Snooks, Ejus liber. Si quis furetur; Per collum pendetur, Similis huic pauperi animali." Here follows a figure of an unfortunate individual suspended "in malam crucem." F. M. M. The Note of BALLIOLENSIS has reminded me of Garrick's book-plate, which I found in a book purchased by me some years ago. The name David Garrick, in capital letters, is surrounded by some fancy scroll-work, above which is a small bust of Shakspeare; below, and on the sides, a mask, and various musical instruments; and beneath the whole, the following sentence from Menage: "La première chose qu'on doit faire quand on a emprunté un livre, c'est de le lire afin de pouvoir le rendre plûtôt.--_Menagiana_, vol. iv. The following admonition to book-stealers is probably not unknown to BALLIOLENSIS: