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A Geographical Dictionary of Milton. By Allan H. Gilbert. (New

Haven : Yale University Press. London : H. Milford. 15s. net.)—Readers of Milton will find this scholarly book useful and interesting. The author gives, as far as possible, a quotation from Milton's authority to illustrate each place- name, and thus shows that the poet was as familiar with the English chroniclers or Hakluyt and Purchas as with the Bible and the classical writers, including the geographers as well as the poets. Milton, as Mr. Gilbert aptly reminds us, in one of his early Latin poems recommended his friends to take imaginary journeys " through the regions made famous by the narratives of illustrious poets."