17 MARCH 1888, page 20

A Florentine Preacher.*

TIIS sermons of Padre Agostino da Montefeltro, called by his countrymen "the modern Savonarola," can hardly fail to have a deep interest for any one who cares to study the......

The Island Of Samoa"

IN 1881, after a sojourn in Sydney, which seems to have inspired him with a very unfavourable opinion of that city, and obliges him to represent it as offering a flagrant......

Dean Plumptre's " Dante."

IT is easy to understand the fascination which Horace and Homer have for translators. It is not so easy—we are speaking only of Englishmen—to understand why Dante should in......