Another excellent edition of FitzGerald's final version, issued by Paul Elder & Company, is edited by Arthur Guiterman and contains _The Literal Omar_, that lovers of the astronomer-poet may see, stanza for stanza, how the old Persian originally phrased the verses that the Irish recluse so musically echoed in English. DANTE'S "DIVINE COMEDY" The best known English translation of the _Divine Comedy_ is that of Cary, first published in 1806. Other English versions are by Dayman, Pollock and J. A. Carlyle. Longfellow made a translation in verse which is musical and cast in the _terza rima_ of the original. A mass of commentary on Dante has been issued of which only a few noteworthy books can be mentioned here. Among these are Botta, _Introduction to the Study of Dante_ (London, 1887); Maria Francesca Rossetti, _A Shadow of Dante_ (London, 1884); Butler, _Dante: His Times and His Work_ (London, 1895); Symonds, _Introduction to the Study of Dante_ (Edinburgh, 1890); Lowell, _Among My Books_, one of the finest essays on the great poet and his work (Boston, 1880); Macaulay, _Essays_, Vol. I; Carlyle in _Heroes and Hero Worship_. One of the largest Dante libraries in the world was collected by the late Professor Willard Fiske of Cornell University. At his death this splendid library was given to the university which Professor Fiske served for over twenty years as head of the department of Northern European languages. Professor Melville B. Anderson, recently retired from the chair of English Literature at Stanford University, is now completing a translation of Dante, which has been a labor of love for many years. MILTON'S "PARADISE LOST," AND OTHER POEMS The first edition of Milton's _Paradise Lost_, in ten books, bears date of August 10, 1667. Seven years later, with many changes and enlarged by two books, it appeared in a second edition. All that Milton received for this poem was L10. _Paradise Regained_ was first printed with _Samson Agonistes_ in 1671. The standard biography of Milton is by Masson in six volumes (London, 1859-1894). The best short sketch is Mark Pattison's in John Morley's _English Men of Letters Series_ (New York, 1880). Another good short sketch is in Richard Garnett's volume in _Great Writers' Series_ (London, 1890). One of the best editions of Milton's _Prose Works_ is in the Bohn Library, five volumes, edited by St. John. _The Poetical Works_, edited by Masson, appeared in 1890 in three volumes. Buching of Oxford issued in 1900 reprints of the first editions under the title, _Poetical Works After the Original Texts_.