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Stories from Dante. By Morley Chester. (Frederick Warne and• Co.)—Here

we have fresh testimony to the influence of Dante in, a volume which is intended to make him known to children. "The aim of the following pages," says their author," has been to detach from his life and work, or from the lives of those asso- ciated with him, such incidents and scenes as can be presented in a form suitable and attractive to young people." It might be going too far to compare Mr. Chester's treatment of Dante with Lamb's treatment of Shakespeare, yet there is no question what- ever as to the grace and ease—perhaps the ease occasionally. degenerates here and there into mere fluency—with which Mr. Chester revives the memories of Beatrice and es r 4- , and tells once again the sts,:- /ICES. r of Hunger, ths - ELECTRIC INSTALLATIONS AND FITI1 ling 100 OXFORD STREET, W. The

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