_Queries from the Navorscher_ (Vol. vii., p. 595.)--"The Choice of Hercules," in the _Tatler_, was written by Addison; Swift did not contribute more than one article to that publication, a treatise on "Improprieties of Language." The allegory of "Religion being the Foundation of Contentment" in the _Adventurer_, was the work of Hawkesworth, to whose pen most of those papers are attributable. "_Amentium haud amantium._"--The alliteration of this passage in the _Andria_ of Terence is somewhat difficult to preserve in English; perhaps to render it "An act of _frenzy_ rather than _friendship_," would keep up the pun, though a weak translation, bringing to mind the words of the song: "O call it by some other name, For _friendship_ is too cold." In French the expression might be turned "follement plutot que folatrement," although this is a fault on the other side, and a stronger word than the original. T. O. M. "_Pity is akin to love_" (Vol. i., p. 248.).--Though a long time has elapsed since the birthplace of these words was queried, no answer has, I think, appeared in your columns. Will you then allow me to refer H. to Southern's _Oroonoko_, Act II. Sc. 1.? "_Blandford._ Alas! I pity you. _Oroonoko._ Do pity me; _Pity's akin to love_, and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul. I would be pity'd here." W. T. M. Hong Kong. * * * * * Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. Our library table is covered at this time with books for all classes of readers. The theological student will peruse with no ordinary interest the learned _Dissertation on the Origin and Connexion of the Gospels, with a Synopsis of the Parallel Passages in the Original and Authorised Version, and Critical Notes_, by James Smith, Esq., of Jordan Hill: and when he has mastered the arguments contained in it, he may turn to the new number of _The Journal of Sacred Literature_, in which will be found a great variety of able papers. Our antiquarian friends will be gratified with a volume compiled in a great measure from original family papers, by its author Mr. Bankes, the Member for Dorsetshire; and which narrates _The Story of Corfe Castle, and of many who have lived there, collected from Ancient Chronicles and Records; also from the Private Memoirs of a Family resident there in the Time of the Civil Wars_. The volume, which is with good feeling inscribed by the author to his friends and neighbours, Members of the Society for Mutual Improvement in the borough of Corfe Castle, contains many interesting {90} notices of his ancestors, the well-known judge, Sir John Bankes and his lady--so memorable for her gallant defence of Corfe Castle--drawn from the family papers. _The Royal Descent of Nelson and Wellington from Edward I., King of England, with Tables of Pedigree and Genealogical Memoirs_, compiled by G. R. French, is a handsomely printed volume, which will please the genealogist; while the historical student