21 DECEMBER 1901, Page 17
THE CARE OF BOOKS. Fro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,βIn the review of "The Care of Books" (Spectator, December 7th) it is mentioned how an Abbot finishes a book with an imprecation on any one who should steal or take it away. When I was at school, now sixty years ago, the boys were in the habit of writing in their books the following lines:β "ho liber eat meus, Et testis eat Deus, Si quisquis furetur Per eollum pendetur."
Or these lines :β " Quisquis hum librnm rapiat scelestus Atque furtivis manibus prehendat: Peigat ad tetras Acherontis undas Non rediturns."
I have never been able to find their origin.βI am, Sir, Bic.,
The Lawn, Budleigh-Salterton. H. G. Basia.
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