Dante's Pilgrim's Progress. By Emilia Russell Gurney. (Elliot
Stock.)—This is a selection from the " Commedia," but a selec- tion made in a special way and for a special purpose, not giving passages of special literary or historical interest, but "relating especially to the Pilgrim's Progress,"—i.e., to the "Passage of the blessed Soul from the Slavery of the present corruption to the liberty of Eternal Glory." The spiritual purpose, without its illustrations drawn from politics and history, is set forth, so that we see the ascent from the depths of the "Inferno," through the intermediate stage of the " Purgatorio," to the glories of the "Paradise." On one page, it should be explained, we have one or more of Dante's stanzas ; on the other, parallel passages from other writers, or explanation from the compiler. Mrs. Russell Gurney has put together a highly interesting volume.
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