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…