This proverb does not appear to be of classical origin. Several proverbs of a similar meaning are collected in Diogenian, v. 15. The most common is, [Greek: ek ton onuchon ton leonta], _ex ungue leonem_. The allusion to Hercules is probably borrowed from some fable. L. _Bucaneers_ (Vol. i., p. 400.).--Your correspondent C. will find an interesting account of the Bucaneers in a poem by M. Poirie St. Aurele, entitled _Le Flibustier_, and published by Ambroise Dupont & Co., Paris, 1827. The Introduction and Notes furnish some curious particulars relative to the origin, progress, and dissolution of those once celebrated pirates, and to the daring exploits of their principal leaders, Montauban, Grammont, Monbars, Vand-Horn, Laurent de Graff, and Sir H. Morgan. The book contains many facts which go far to support Bryan Edwards's favourable opinion. I may add that the author derives the French word _flibustier_ from the English _freebooter_, and the English word _bucaneer_ from the French _boucanier_; which latter word is derived from _boucan_, an expression used by the Caribs to describe the place where they assembled to make a repast of their enemies taken in war. HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia, March, 1851. _God's Acre_ (Vol. iii., p. 284.).--By a _Saxon_ phrase, MR. LONGFELLOW undoubtedly meant _German_. In Germany _Gottes-acker_ is a name for churchyard; and it is to be found in Wachter's _Glossarium Germanicum_, as well as in modern dictionaries. It is true there is the other word _Kirchhof_, perhaps of more modern date. "GOTS-AKER. Caemeterium. Quasi ager Dei, quia corpora defunctorum fidelium comparantur semini. 1 Cor. xv. 36., observante Keyslero in _Antiq. Septentr._ p. 109."--Wachter's _Gloss. Germanicum_. Very interesting are also the other allegorical names which have been given to the burial-places of the dead. They are enlarged upon in Minshew's _Guide to Tongues_, under the head "Churchyard." "Caemeterium (from the Greek), signifying a dormitory or place of sleep. And a Hebrew term (so Minshew says), Beth-chajim, _i. e._ domus viventium, 'The house of the living,' in allusion to the resurrection." Our matter-of-fact "Church-_yard_ or inclosure" falls dull on the ear and mind after any of the above titles. HERMES.