W. COLLYNS.

Harbow.

_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.

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