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.

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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
will be more interested in _Th