Note 3 — BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICES.

In No. 22 of the “Freimüthigen,” Kluschin speaks very approvingly of the fables of Khemnitzer, and gives as an example “The Lion’s mandate.” In a following number an anonymous writer claims this fable for La Fontaine. It is singular enough that the Russian copy was never written by Khemnitzer, though it was published in a volume of his fables, but under the title of Chuzhiiæ Basni, Fables by other Authors.