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The Divine Comedy Of Dante Alighieri : — Hel1 :...

lated by C. E. Norton. (Macmillan.)—It is a pleasure to welcome so scholarly a bit of work as Mr. Norton's prose translation of the Divine Commedia, of which the first two parts......

Vivia. By Florence Wilford. (wells Gardner, Darton, And...

story," as it is called, has an old - fashioned grace about it. The motive is one sufficiently familiar,—the "little aversion" which develops before very long into not a little......

The Aftermath. By Noel Dene. 2 Vols. (hurst And Blackett.)

—The style of the lady who calls herself "Noel Done" leaves something to be desired, but it has not the fatal defect of being tiresome ; and The Aftermath is a fairly readable......

The Quantocks And Their Associations. By The Late Rev. W.

Luke Nicholls. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a new edition of a book originally printed for private circulation. The Quantocks, it may be as well to say, are picturesque hills......

He Has Deciphered The Hittite Inscriptions, And That He Has

con- structed out of them, together with Egyptian, Assyrian, and Hebrew records, a history of the Hittite people from three genera- tions before Abraham downwards. He finds the......