One of the tastiest books of the season comes from the new publishers, Cupples & Kurd,—new in this association of names, but well known in the publication business. The unique but simple binding is a device of Mr. Hurd's.
The story is by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, and is translated from the German (wherein it made a sensation) by S. H. Adams.
There is a wheel within a wheel. The scene opens in the local Court of Verona, where the Poet Dante improvises a story which he has fitted to a Paduan epitaph. A monk is absolved from his vows, that he may perpetuate the family name by marriage. He weds however the unexpected girl, Antiope; and she is killed by his dead brother's betrothed, "whom the family had selected for Astorre's bride.
