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net each), are before us. These are A Dante Treasury,

consisting of Selections from the Version by Ichabod Charles Wright (of Nottingham), with an Argument of the Three Parts of the " Divine Comedy "; and An Old English Miscellany, containing some pieces of classical reputation from Caedmon down to Matthew Arnold. These are delightful little volumes which one may carry about in the pocket without feeling their presence.

With these may be mentioned Dante's Vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, translated by Henry C. Cary (G. Newnes, 2s. 6d. and 3s.), in the series of " Thin Paper Classics." It is now nearly a century since Cary published the first instalment of his translation. He did not choose his metre happily ; otherwise he has scarcely been surpassed by his many successors and rivals.