ne, 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 can be attached. Even Swift has the
justice to say, 'After all he was a man of generosity and
good nature.'"--_Short Remarks on Bishop Burnet's History_.

"It is usual to censure Burnet as a singularly inaccurate
historian; but I believe the charge to be
altogether unjust. He appears to be singularly inaccurate
only because his narrative has been subjected to
a scrutiny singularly severe and unfriendly. If any
Whig thought it worth while to subject Reresby's
_Memoirs_, North's _Examen_, Mulgrave's _Account of the
Revolution_, or the _Life of James the Second_, edited by
Clarke, to a similar scrutiny, it would soon appear that
Burnet was far inde