7 NOVEMBER 1903, Page 42

In a handsome volume of more than a thousand pages,

Gamma d,ella Letteratura /ta/iana (Barbera, Firenze ; Frowde, London; 358. net), Professor Bingham has collected some seven hundred specimens of Italian literature from the earliest times down to the present day (the last of the nine epochs into which the selection is divided being the " Period° dei Vtventi," 1870-1900). Biographical sketches of the authors laid under contribution are given, the earliest being that of Brunette Latini, a Tuscan writer whose life, if we may trust the commonly given dates, was included in the thirteenth century. Some notes have been added by the editor.