Word: london
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More is required than any single comment affords, and among the books which may be commended, but which must be read with discrimination, are: A Shadow of Dante, by Miss M. F. Rossetti, London, 1871; A Companion to Dante from the German of Scartazzini, by A. J. Butler, London, 1893 (valuable, but with much questionable speculation and interpretation); Dante's Divine Comedy, its Scope and Value, by Hettinger, translated by Bowden, London, 1887 (interesting, but not always trustworthy); the essays on Dante by Lowell, Church, Caird and Carlyle, in their respective works...
...translations, that of the De Monarchia, by R. W. Church, London, 1879, of the Convito by Katharine Hillard, London, 1889, may be recommended, as may that of the Canzoniere by Charles Lyell, London, 1835, and of the Letters of Dante by C. S. Latham, Cambridge, Mass...
...list of spring books soon to be brought out by Elkin Mathews, the well known London publisher, appears "The Elizabethan Hamlet: a study of the sources of Shakespeare's environment, to show that the mad scenes had a comic aspect now ignored," by John Corbin, Harvard...
Professor Norton is a member of the executive committee of the American association formed for the purpose of purchasing and preserving the house of Thomas Carlyle, in Chelsea, London...
...first theatre in London was established in 1576, and up to 1600 the number rapidly increased. Theatres became immensely popular. The great opening in literature was the Drama, and the young man who aspired to literary fame turned his mind to writing plays...