first Jesuit who taught the Greek language at Messina; he also gave public lectures on the Holy Scriptures in Rome.  He was appointed Rector of the German College at Rome, shortly before his death, which occurred on the 25th of October, 1556, three months and six days after the death of Loyola.  Frusius had studied, with equal success, theology, medicine, and law:  he was a good mathematician, an excellent musician, and made Latin verses with such facility, that he composed them, on the instant, on all sorts of subjects.  But these verses were neither so elegant nor so harmonious, as Alegambe asserts[1], since he adds, that it requires close attention to distinguish them from prose.  Frusius translated, from Spanish into Latin, the Spiritual Exercises of Loyola.  He was the author of the following works:—­Two small pieces, in verse, De Verborum et Rerum Copia, and Summa Latinae Syntaxeos:  these were published in several different places; Theses Collectae ex Interpretatione Geneseos; Assertiones Theologicae, Rome, 1554; Poemata, Cologne, 1558—­this collection often reprinted at Lyons, Antwerp and Tournon, contains 255[2] epigrams against the heretics, amongst whom he places Erasmus;—­a poem De Agno Dei; and, lastly, another poem, entitled Echo de Presenti Christianae Religionis Calamitate, which has been sometimes cited as an example of a great difficulte vaincue.  The edition of Tournon contains also a poem, De Simplicitate, of which Alegambe speaks with praise.  To Frusius was also owing an edition of Martial’s Epigrams, divested of their obscenities.

EDW.  VENTRIS. 
Cambridge, Jan. 10. 1850.

[Our valued correspondent, MR. MACCABE, has also informed us that the “Epigrams of Frusius were published at Antwerp, 1582, in 8vo., and at Cologne, 1641, in 12mo.  See Feller’s Biographie.”]

    [1] I presume in his Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis
    Jesu.

    [2] Duthilloeul, according to Mr. Bruce, says 251.

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OPINIONS RESPECTING BURNET

A small catena patrum has been given respecting Burnet, as a historian, in No. 3. pp. 40, 41., to which two more scriptorum judicia have been appended in No. 8. p. 120., by “I.H.M.”.  As a sadly disparaging opinion had been quoted, at p. 40., from Lord Dartmouth, I hope you will allow the following remarks on the testimony of that nobleman to appear in your columns:—­

“No person has contradicted Burnet more frequently, or with more asperity, than Dartmouth.  Yet Dartmouth wrote, ’I do not think he designedly published anything he believed to be false.’  At a later period, Dartmouth, provoked by some remarks on himself in the second volume of the Bishop’s history, retracted this praise; but to such a retraction little importance