Paradise Lost With an Introduction and Notes by Sohn A.
Himes. (Harper and Brothers.)—In his interesting introduction Mr. Himes gives i curious diagram of Milton's Universe, and Satan's course from Hell, at the extreme left, through Chaos and Limbo to "Comma. He also traces the close connection between the poem and the Book of Revelation. He calls attention to the remark- able preciaion with which Milton "uses words nearly synonymous. ..... There is a distinction between the Empyrean and Heaven, between the Pit and Hell, between the World and the Earth," and he goes on to quote Coleridge's saying that "the reader of Milton must always be on duty." Mr. limes has succeeded in Rve king his notes readable as well as minute. They follow the course of the poem, and are arranged under headings such as " The Dragon Bound," "The Dragon Loosed," "The Spiritual Babylon," and so on. If Mr. limes had also put these headings in the margin of the text he would have saved some of us from sharing the fate of the devils who were "in wandering mazes lost."
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