21 MAY 1887, page 20

Dante's " Divina Commedia."•

Ix is with surprise that we read in Father Bowden's preface to the excellent translation of Dr. Hettinger's essay on " the scope and value" of Dante's work, that the volume he......

Mr. Besant's Romance Of The Sea.* Faom A Grim And

sordid reality, relieved by romance, which formed the subject of his recent novel, Children of Gibeon, Mr. Besant has turned in the story now before us to a stern and wild......