"_Wise above that which is written_" (Vol. v., pp. 228. 260.).--Professor Scholefield, in his valuable _Hints for an improved Translation of the New Testament_ (p. 64. 3rd edit.), renders the words τὸ μὴ ὑπὲρ ὃ γέγραπται φρονεῖν (1 Cor. iv. 6.), "not to be wise above that which is written," and supports this rendering by clear and (to my mind) satisfactory argument. C. P. PH***. _Nightingale and Thorn_ (Vol. iv., pp. 175. 242.; Vol. v., p. 39.).--The origin of this fancy has not yet been reached. The earliest mention of it that I have met with is by Gascoigne: "And thus I sing with pricke against my brest, Like Philomene...."--_Steele Glas_, v. 145. Again, in _The Spanish Tragedy_: ... "Haply the gentle nightingale Shall carol us asleep ere we be ware, And, singing with the prickle at her breast, Tell our delight." And in _The Two Noble Kinsmen_: "O for a pricke now like a nightingale, To put my breast against."--_Act III. Sc. 4._ C. P. PH***. _Friday at Sea_ (Vol. v., p. 200.).--H. M. S. "Wellesley," bearing the flag of the Earl of Dundonald, on leaving Plymouth for the West Indies, got under way on _Friday_ the 24th of March, 1848; and, after she had got outside the breakwater, she was recalled by the Port-admiral, and did not leave again until the next day: it was to take in the mail-bags, but the firm belief of the men was, that the gallant admiral purposely left something behind to avoid going to sea on such an unlucky day as Friday. W. B. M. Dee Side. I heard it stated the other day, in conversation, that the ill-fated Amazon commenced her voyage on a Friday. Can any of your readers say with certainty if this was the fact? W. FRASER. _Latin Names of Towns_ (Vol. v., p. 235.).--I transcribe, for the benefit of your readers, the full title of the largest Geographical Dictionary which I know to contain the information M. asks for. Dr. William Smith's _New Dictionary of Classical Geography_ may be expected to supply the desideratum, in regard to places known to the Greeks and Romans, but will not, I presume, take up all the names in Baudrand's _Dictionary_. Its title-page reads as follows: "Novum Lexicon Geographicum, in quo universi orbis oppida, urbes, regiones, provinciæ, regna, emporia, academiæ, metropoles, flumina et maria, _antiquis et recentibus nominibus appellata_, suisque distantiis descripta, recensentur. Illud primum in lucem edidit Philippus Ferrarius Alexandrinus, totius servorum coetus supremus Præsul, S. T. D. atque in Ticinensi Academia publicus Metaphysices et Mathematices Professor. "Nunc Vero Michael Antonius Baudrand, Parisinus, prior commendatarius de roboribus, de novo mercato, et de Gessenis, hanc ultimam editionem, ita emendavit, illustravit, dimidiàque parte auctiorem fecit, ut Novum Lexicon jure optimo dicatur.