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NOTlilS AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 178. 



due peut-etre parmi lesaccidens ignores de cette contree 

 rocailleuse (de la Corse).' Cet apologue n'ctant que 

 peu ou point connu, nous croyons faire plaisir en le 

 reproduisant." 



My own conviction is, that the greatest " fable " 

 of all is the ascription to Napoleon, at the ajje of 

 thirteen, of a poem which would do no discredit to 

 an older and more practised hand. In his maturer 

 years he wrote the Memoire sur la Culture du 

 Murier, the Lettre a M. Matteo Buttafuoco^ the 

 Souper de Beaucaire, and the Discours upon a 

 subject proposed by Abbe Regnal to the Academy 

 of Lyons ; and these productions are confessedly 

 " au-dessous du mediocre." With what show of 

 reason, then, can we accept him as the author of 

 a poetical effusion which, considering the age at 

 ■which it is alleged to have been written, would 

 throw into the shade the vaunted precocity of such 

 professed poets as Cowley, Pope, Chatterton, and 

 Louis Racine ? 



But whatever may be the origin of this fable, 

 the assigning of it to Napoleon is in itself a sin- 

 gular circumstance. The dog Cesar, who holds the 

 rabbit a prisoner in his " gite," and who summons 

 him to surrender ; and the unfortunate rabbit who 

 prefers making his escape, " en heros de garenne," 

 are so obviously applicable to the personal history 

 of Napoleon, that it is impossible to conceive how 

 the French (except on the score of their infatu- 

 ation in everything that relates to that great man) 

 could represent him as the author of such a satire 

 upon himself. Henky H. Bkeen. 



St. Lucia. 



SMITH S "dictionary OP ANTIQUITIES" AND "DIC- 

 TIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY AND MYTHOLOGY." 



As one of tlic objects of your publication pro- 

 fesses to be (Vol. i., p. 18.) the correction of errors 

 in standard works, I beg leave to forward you a 

 few instances of errata in the references, &c. oc- 

 curring in The Dictionary of Antiquities (2nd 

 edit.) and Dictionary of Biography and Mytho- 

 logy of Dr. Smith. 



Dictionary of Antiquities. 



Page 2. a, Abolla (bis), for " Juv. iv. 75.," 

 read " Juv. iii. 75." 



Page 163. b, Astronomia, for " Ov. Trist. i. 

 1. 13.," read''\. 11. 13." 



Page 163. b, Astronomia, for " 4th Nov.," 

 read " 6th Octob." 



Page 230. b, Calendarium, for " Liv. xi. 46.," 

 read " ix. 46." 



Page 526. a, Fenus, for " 25 per cent.," read 

 "22^' 



Page 663. b, Justitium, for " Har. Resp. 36.," 

 reac?"26." 



Page 666. a, Lampadbphoeia,/!?;' "Herod, viii. 

 9.," read " viii. 98." 



Page 642. b, Interdictum, ybr " give full satis- 

 faction," read " get," &c. 



Page 795. b, NEocoRi,/or " Plat. vi. 759.," read 

 " Plat. Legg. vi. 759." 



Page 827. b, Ox-la, for " Trvpicrrari^s" read 

 " irupi(rTdTr]s.' 



Page 887. b, Perkeci, for " Thucyd. viii. 61.," 

 read " viii. 6." 



Page 1087. a, Synoikia, for " Thucyd. iii. 15.," 

 read ''il 15." 



Index. 



Page 1256., /or ''<ppo6s" read '' (pophs" 



Page 1256., for " (ppfxohs" read " cpopuhs." 



Page 1259., Augcrale, for "233., a." read 



" 253. a." 



Page 1279., Transvectio, for "437. a.," read 



" 473. a." 



Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. 



Vol. L 



Page 452. a, Bacis, for "Pax 1009.," read 

 " 1071." 



Page 452. a, Bacis, for " Av. 907.," read 

 "■ 962." 



Page 689. a, Charmides, for " Acad. Qussst. 

 iv. 6.," read " ii. 6." 



Vol. II. 



Page 221. b, Gallio, for "Acts viii. 12.," read 

 " xviii. 12." 



Page 519. a, [Hokatiub, for " Sat. i. 71. 5.," 

 read " i. 6. 71." 



Page 519. b, Horatius, for " Epist. xi. 1. 71.," 

 read "ii. 1. 71." 



Page 528. b, Hortalus, /or "Aug. 41.," read 

 " Tib. 47." 



Page 788. b, Lityerses, for " Athen. 615.," 

 read "415." 



Page 931. a, Marcellus, for "297. b.," read 

 " 927. b." 



Page 1124. a, Mus,/or "ii. 19.," read "DeFin. 

 ii. 19." 



Page 1206. a, Nobilior, /or "de Orat. iii. 63.," 

 7-ead " ii. 63." 



Vol. III. 



Page 175. b, PELAGius,/or "218.," read "418." 

 Page 514. a, Potitia Gens, for " Liv. ix. 39.," 



read " 29." 



N.B. — a, b, refer respectively to the first and 



second columns in the pages. 



P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. 



ST. columba s cross. 



In 1584 Sir John Perrot, lord-deputy of Ire- 

 land, writes to Sir Francis Walsingham, the se- 

 cretary of state : 



" For a token I have sent you holie ColumkiU's 

 crosse, a god of great veneration with Surleboy 



