André des Freux, better known by his Latin name, Frusius, was born at Chartres, in the beginning of the sixteenth century. He embraced the life of an ecclesiastic, and obtained the cure of Thiverval, which he held many years with great credit to himself. The high reputation of Ignatius Loyola, who was then at Rome, with authority from the Holy See to found the Society of the Jesuits, led Frusius to that city, where he was admitted a member of the new order in 1541, and shortly after became secretary to Loyola. He contributed to the establishment of the Society at Parma, Venice, and many towns of Italy and Sicily. He was the 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 Latinæ Syntaxeos_: these were published in several different places; _Theses Collectæ ex Interpretatione Geneseos; Assertiones Theologicæ_, 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 Christianæ Religionis Calamitate_, which has been sometimes cited as an example of a great _difficulté 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. * * * * * OPINIONS RESPECTING BURNET