"There are no books which I more delight in than in travels, especially those that describe remote countries, and give the writer an opportunity of showing his parts without incurring any danger of being examined and contradicted. Among all the authors of this kind, our renowned countryman, Sir John Mandeville, has distinguished himself by the copiousness of his invention, and the greatness of his genius. The second to Sir John I take to have been Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, a person of infinite adventure and unbounded imagination. One reads the voyages of these two great wits with as much astonishment as the travels of Ulysses in Homer, or of the Red Cross Knight in Spenser. All is enchanted ground and fairy land." Biographical sketches of Mandeville and Pinto are attached to this paper in the excellent edition of the _Tatler_ ("with Illustrations and Notes" by Calder, Percy, and Nichols), published in six volumes in 1786. Godwin selected this quotation from Congreve as a fitting motto for his _Tale of St. Leon_. J. H. M. The passage referred to occurs in Congreve's _Love for Love_, Act II. Sc. 5. Cervantes had before designated Pinto as the "prince of liars." It seems that poor Pinto did not deserve the ill language applied to him by the wits. Ample notices of his travels may be seen in the _Retrospective Review_, vol. viii. pp. 83-105., and Macfarlane's _Romance of Travel_, vol. ii. pp. 104-192. C. H. COOPER. Cambridge. _"Other-some" and "Unneath"_ (Vol vii., p. 571.).--Mr. Halliwell, in his _Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words_, has _other-some_, some other, "a quaint but pretty phrase _of frequent occurrence_." He gives two instances of its use. He has also "_Unneath_, beneath. Somerset." C. H. COOPER. Cambridge. The word _other-some_ occurs in the authorised version of the Bible, Acts xvii. 18. "Other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods." It does not occur in any of the earlier versions of this passage in Bagster's _English Hexapla_. Halliwell says that it is "a quaint but pretty phrase of frequent occurrence," and gives an example dated 1570. _Unneath_, according to the same authority, is used in Somersetshire. _Other-some_ is constantly used in Norfolk. I think it, however, a pity that your space should be occupied by such Queries as these, which a simple reference to Halliwell's _Dictionary_ would have answered. E. G. R. _Willow Pattern_ (Vol. vi., p. 509.).--Evidently a Chinese design. The bridge-houses, &c., are purely Chinese; and also the want of perspective. I have seen crockery in the shops in Shanghai with the _same pattern_, or at least with very slight difference. H. B. Shanghai.