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...Recent Dante Literature," there is an excellent criticism of Professor Norton's translation of the Inferno...
...pricks the legendary bubble. "Robert Morris" is an interesting resume of a not very interesting career by Frank G. Cook. There are two highwaymen, a mediaeval one by Francis G. Lowell and an American one by R. H. Fuller. John Jay Chapman writes on the "Fourth Canto of the Inferno," Kate Mason Rowland on "Maryland Women and French Officers," Walter B. Hill on the "Relief of Suitors in Federal Courts" and Percival Lowell on the "Fate of a Japanese Reformer." Dr. Holmes continues his tea-cup chat and the number closes with the usual book reviews...
...first streaks of a new dawn were beginning to relieve the night of the Dark Ages. At the same time or a little later, the Devil too began to show some improvement. In Dante we see little of him. But where he does appear at the close of the "Inferno," he is no longer the spiteful imp of human or even less than human size, going about the earth to play practical jokes and catch the souls of the unwary. He is now a super-human monster, vague, mysterious and terrible...
...lecturer who has visited us, could only be imperfectly heard at times in the back of the hall. In other respects Mr. Gosse's delivery was unusually good. His voice was pleasing in quality and well modulated. The poems he read, especially the translation in blank verse from the Inferno were rendered exceedingly effective by his good delivery...
...Esse in Inferno...