6 FEBRUARY 1869, page 19

Tree And Serpent-w Orship.*

ONE who has seen the title only of this magnificent book will he puzzled to know what to expect—a history or conjecture on some extinct religion or mythology, or a description......

Gustave Dore's Purgatory And Paradise.* Gustave Dore Has,...

whole, succeeded in illustrating the Purgatory. The drawings are a little too like those in the Inferno, too dreadful, too little penetrated by the idea of hope, to realize......