23 FEBRUARY 1907, Page 26

Selections from Vildani's Chronicle. Translated by Rose E. Selfe and

Edited by Philip H. Wicksteed, MA. (A. Constable and Co. 5s. net.)—" This book of :selections," writes the editor, "is not intended as a contribution to the study of Villani, but as an aid to the study of Dante." This aid is effectively given by marginal references to the parallel passages in Dante, not the Commedie only, it will be understood, but to all the works. Mr. Wicksteed'a introduction is also a most useful bit of exposition. We have never seen Dante's attitude in the great Guelph and Ghibelline controversy, and the politics of Florence generally, better stated.