"Let it not be believ'd for womanhood: Think we had mothers." And again, in those of Palamon (which I have no doubt are Shakspeare's) in the _Two Noble Kinsmen_, Act V. Sc. 1.: "I have been harsh To large confessors, and have hotly ask'd them If they had mothers? I had one, a woman, And women t'were they wrong'd." Now it seems to me that the same feeling is implied in Rosalind's reproof to Phebe; and that there is no ground whatever for saying that _mother_ is used as a warranty for _female beauty_, but rather as one for feminine qualities. Rosalind in effect says, "who might your mother be that you should be so unfeeling?" And, as she tells her plainly she sees no beauty in her, it is clearly to be inferred that it must have been for some other quality that her mother was to be "warranty." Rosalind, in other words, might have said, "Had you a mother, a woman, that you can so discredit the character of womanhood as to exult, insult and all at once, over the wretched?" It might however be contended, that Rosalind's question referred to the rank, condition, or personal appearance of the mother. The latter only bears upon this question; and with regard to that it may be said, that if beauty had been transmitted to the daughter (independently of the questioner having decided _that_ it had not), the question was not needed. Rosalind, in short, seeks for a better cause for Phebe's pride or want of feeling than her own insufficient attractions, in the nature or quality of her mother. It will be observed that, in this view, I have conceded that _who_ may be taken with something of the signification of _what_; but the answer to the question, taken strictly, must be the name of some individual who might be known to the Querist, and be in some measure a warranty for the disposition of the daughter, though for no personal beauty but her own. SAMUEL HICKSON. * * * * * NOTES ON BOOKS, NO. III.--LAURENCE HUMPHREY, PRESIDENT OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND DEAN OF WINCHESTER. In the year 1558 a handsome volume was printed at Basle, in folio in Greek, by Jerome Frobenius and Nicholas Episcopius, with the following title: "[Greek: KERAS AMALTHEIAS, Ê ÔKEANOS. TÔN EXÊGÊSEÔN ÔMÊRIKÔN, ek tôn tou Eustatheiou parekbolôn sunêrmosmenôn]--_i.e._ Copiæ Cornu sive Oceanus Enarrationum Homericarum, ex Eustathii in eundem commentariis concinnatarum, Hadriano Junio autore."