My own conviction is, that the greatest "fable" of all is the ascription to Napoleon, at the age of thirteen, of a poem which would do no discredit to an older and more practised hand. In his maturer years he wrote the _Mémoire sur la Culture du Mûrier_, the _Lettre à M. Matteo Buttafuoco_, the _Souper de Beaucaire_, and the _Discours_ upon a subject proposed by Abbé Regnal to the Academy of Lyons; and these productions are confessedly "au-dessous du médiocre." 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 singular circumstance. The dog César, who holds the rabbit a prisoner in his "gîte," and who summons him to surrender; and the unfortunate rabbit who prefers making his escape, "en héros 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 infatuation in everything that relates to that great man) could represent him as the author of such a satire upon himself. HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia. * * * * * SMITH'S "DICTIONARY OF ANTIQUITIES" AND "DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY AND MYTHOLOGY." As one of the objects of your publication professes 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. occurring in _The Dictionary of Antiquities_ (2nd edit.) and _Dictionary of Biography and Mythology_ 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_ "i. 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_ "22½." Page 663. b, JUSTITIUM, _for_ "Har. Resp. 36.," _read_ "26." Page 666. a, LAMPADEPHORIA, _for_ "Herod. viii. 9.," _read_ "viii. 98." Page 642. b, INTERDICTUM, _for_ "give full satisfaction," _read_ "get," &c. Page 795. b, NEOCORI, _for_ "Plat. vi. 759.," _read_ "Plat. Legg. vi. 759." Page 827. b, OLLA, _for_ "[Greek: puristatês]," _read_ "[Greek: puristatês]." Page 887. b, PERIOECI, _for_ "Thucyd. viii. 61.," _read_ "viii. 6." Page 1087. a, SYNOIKIA, _for_ "Thucyd. iii. 15.," _read_ "ii. 15." Index. Page 1256., _for_ "[Greek: phroos]," _read_ "[Greek: phoros]." Page 1256., _for_ "[Greek: phrmoos]," _read_ "[Greek: phormos]." Page 1259., AUGURALE, _for_ "233., a." _read_ "253. a." Page 1279., TRANSVECTIO, _for_ "437. a," _read_ "473. a." _Dictionary of Biography and Mythology._ Vol. I.