b. iii. p. 28.

T.J.

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ERROR IN HALLAM'S HISTORY OF LITERATURE.

If Mr. Hallam's accuracy _in parvis_ could be fairly judged by the
following instance, and that given by your correspondent "CANTAB." (No.
4, p. 51.), I fear much could not be said for it. The following passage
is from Mr. Hallam's account of Campanella and his disciple Adami. My
reference is to the first edition of Mr. Hallam's work; but the passage
stands unaltered in the second. I believe these to be rare instances of
inaccuracy.

"Tobias Adami, ... who dedicated to the philosophers of Germany
_his own Prodromus Philosophiæ Instauratio_, prefixed to his
_edition_ of Campanella's _Compendium de Rerum Naturæ_,
published at Frankfort in 1617. Most of the other writings of
the master seem to have preceded _this edition_, for Adami
enumerates them in _his Prodromus_."--_Hist. of Literature_,
iii. 149.

The title is not _Prodromus Philosophiæ Instauratio_, which is not
sense; but _Prodromus Philosophiæ Instaurandæ_ (Forerunner of a
philosophy to be constructed). This _Prodromus_ is a treatise of
Campanella's, not, as Mr. Hallam says, of Adami. Adami published the
_Prodromus_ for Campanella, who was in prison; and he wrote a preface,
in which he gives a list of other writings of Campanella, which he