16 DECEMBER 1893, Page 23

Of old friends with whom we have willingly renewed acquaint-

ance are Dante's Purgatorio and Paradise, translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, with illustrations by Gustave Doril (assell and Co.) ; Lamb's Tales front Shakespeare, with illustrations by Sir jam Gilbert (Rutledge and Sons) ; The Comic History of England, by Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, with reproductions of two hundred engravings by John Leech, and twenty page illustra- tions (same publishers) ; and The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, with illustrations by Howard Pyle, 2 vols. (Gay and Bird),—the portraits of Lowell are particularly interesting.