ANDREW FRUSIUS--ANDRÉ DES FREUX.

Many of your readers, as well as "ROTERODAMUS," will be ready to
acknowledge their obligation to Mr. Bruce for his prompt
identification of the author of the epigram against Erasmus (pp. 27,
28.). I have just referred to the catalogue of the library of this
university, and I regret to say that we have no copy of any of the
works of Frusius. Mr. Bruce says he knows nothing of Frusius as an
author. I believe there is no mention of him in any English
bibliographical or biographical work. There is, however, a notice
{181} of him in the _Biographie Universelle_, vol. xvi. (Paris), and
in the _Biografia Universale_, vol. xxi. (Venezia). As these works
have, perhaps, found their way into very few private English
libraries, I send you the following sketch, which will probably be
acceptable to your readers. It is much to be lamented that
sufficient encouragement cannot be given in this country for the
production of a _Universal Biography_. Roses's work, which promised
to be a giant, dwindled down to a miserable pigmy; and that under
"The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" was strangled in
its birth.

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