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The very useful "Reference Series" (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.) is

enriched by a Dictionary of Quotations (Italian), by Thomas Bonfield Harbottle and Colonel Philip Hugh Dalbiec (3s. fid. net). There are two hundred and two pages, with about nine times as many quotations, all of them furnished with English renderings. There is an index of authors (about a hundred and forty in number), and another of subjects. We see that Dante occupies the first place with ninety-two quotations ; Goldoni supplies seventy-two; Ariosto, Machiavelli, Metastasio, and Tasso have more than sixty each ; Petrarch and Pnlci are not far behind.—In the n Miniature Reference Library" (G. Routledge and Sons, is. not) we have A Book of Battles and Sieges, by Lawrence 11. Dawson.