2 OCTOBER 1886, page 19

Lechler's "apostolic And Post-apostolic Times."

IT is not often the privilege of an author to rewrite a book after an interval of nearly forty years, nor to consider his results anew after a time of prolonged investigation by......

The " Paradis•e " Of Dante.• As Mr. Butler's Ambition

does not soar higher than the produc- tion of a good " crib " to Dante, we may dispense with any minute criticisms on his excellent prose version of the Paradiso. His task was......