. Review of reviews and world's work. n the thirteenth century to the modernrevival in Holland,—this is what Mr. E. B. Greenshieldshas written and called Landscape Painting and Mod-ern Dutch Artists (Baker, Taylor). The volume is illus-trated with reproductions of the paintings considered. We are in receipt of three volumes, in Italian, fromthe press of Ulrico Hoepli, of Milan,—the entire Italiantext of Dantes Divina Commedia, with explanatorynotes by Professor Raffaello Fornaciari; The Purga- torio and Its Prelude, being a study by FrancescodOvidio ; and a descriptive catalogue of Italian lit
. Review of reviews and world's work. n the thirteenth century to the modernrevival in Holland,—this is what Mr. E. B. Greenshieldshas written and called Landscape Painting and Mod-ern Dutch Artists (Baker, Taylor). The volume is illus-trated with reproductions of the paintings considered. We are in receipt of three volumes, in Italian, fromthe press of Ulrico Hoepli, of Milan,—the entire Italiantext of Dantes Divina Commedia, with explanatorynotes by Professor Raffaello Fornaciari; The Purga- torio and Its Prelude, being a study by FrancescodOvidio ; and a descriptive catalogue of Italian litera-ture from 1871 to 1905. In Italian, also, we have, fromthe house of Raffaello Giusti (Leghorn), Professor Gus-tavo Coens The Colonial Question in Its Relation toLatin Peoples. SOME NEW VOLUMES OF VERSE. Mr. Hermann Rosenthal, the chief of the Slavonicdepartment in the Astor Library and a frequent con-tributor on Russian subjects to the Review of Reviews,has just published abook of verse entitled Spatherbst-nebel (Strecker und. HERMANN ROSENTHAL. Schroder, Stuttgart).Mr. Rosenthals firstbook of poems was pub-lished in his own print-ing establishment inRussia in 1870, and soonafter his arrival inAmerica, now twenty-five years ago, he i)ub-lished a German trans-lation in verse of Eccle-siastes and of the Songof Songs, but since thenhis literary activity hasbeen confined mainlyto political and histoi-ical essays, and to hiswork as one of the ed-itors of the recentlycompleted Jewish p]n-cyclopsedia. Through it all, however, he has remained a poet, and the presentvolume is merely an outward expression of what he haslong been carrying about within him, as he says in thefirst introductory poem of the collection. The title ofthe collection, Late Autumn Mist, peculiarly welldescribes the atmosphere of the poems as a experiences on reading them the same feeling ofmelancholy that steals over one on a beautiful day inOctober when toward evening the mist begins to
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