2 JUNE 1906, Page 23

We have received two very pleasing little books, pleasing whether

we regard them within or without, in the series "Little Books for Bookmen " (Hodder and Stoughton, 6d. net per volume). These are Dante Alighieri, by John S. Carroll, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Walter Lewin. Each gives &useful little summary of the life and work of its subject, and each is furnished with a portrait and other illustrations. There was a certain kinship between the two men. When we bear this in mind, and compare the portraits of the two, we seem to realise the gap between the centuries.