I read the 'Purgatorio' all through, forced myself to read it in Italian to get the full savour and significance of it.

Dante, too, had been in the depths and drunk the bitter lees of despair.

I shall want a little library when I come out, a library of a score of books.

I wonder if you will help me to get it.

I want Flaubert, Stevenson, Baudelaire, Maeterlinck, Dumas _pere_, Keats, Marlowe, Chatterton, Anatole France, Theophile Gautier, Dante, Goethe, Meredith's poems, and his 'Egoist,' the Song of Solomon, too, Job, and, of course, the Gospels." "I shall be delighted to get them for you," I said, "if you will send me the list.