Le Purgatoire. Par Mme. la Comtesse Horace de Choiseul (Paris
: Firmin-Didot. En vente chez Baranger, 5 Rue des Saints- Peres. 15 fr.)—Le Paradis. Par Mine. la Comtessa Horace de Choiseul. (Paris : Hachette et Cie. 15 fr.)—These beautiful books, both crowned by the Academie Frangaise, and made outwardly attractive by every advantage of paper, print, and illustrations, should prove of high value to amateur students of Dante. The width of the author's knowledge of her subject appears on every page. Entirely familiar with the Dante literature and criticism of her two adopted countries, Italy and France, Mine. de Choiseul is equally at home, of course, with all that has been published in her native language in England and America. The volumes are modestly described as written " d'apres lea commentateurs," and the biblio- graphy is a long one, but both the delightful Introductions and the studies of each separate canto possess the originality in thought and treatment to be presupposed in books thus honoured by the best literary judgment of France.
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