ANNUAL REPORT The Dante Society held its twenty-fourth annual meeting at the house of Professor Norton, in Cambridge, on Tuesday evening, May 16, 1905. The usual business was transacted and the officers of the previous year reëlected, Mr. W. R. Thayer succeeding to the place of the Rev. C. A. Dinsmore on the Council. Professor Grandgent, for the Committee on Honorary Members, reported the nominations of Dr. Paget Toynbee and Signor Isidoro Del Lungo, both of whom were unanimously elected. Professor Sheldon, on behalf of the Committee on the Publication of the Concordances, reported that the Concordance of the Minor Italian Works was completed. The Society voted to express to him its grateful acknowledgment of the service he had rendered to Dante scholarship. Shortly after the meeting the Concordance was published and copies were distributed to subscribers. The Society took a number of copies in addition to those subscribed for by individual members, and the Secretary can supply these for the original subscription price of seven dollars, with a slight additional charge for express. It is understood that they are held to meet the demands of members of the Society and that they are not for general sale. No competitors appeared for the Dante Prize in 1905. Measures were taken during the year by a committee of the Society to make this prize better known to students. of American colleges. The Council takes much pleasure in publishing with the present Report "A Chronological List of English Translations from Dante, from Chaucer to the Present Day," by Dr. Paget Toynbee. FRED NORRIS ROBINSON May 12, 1906 Secretary CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS FROM DANTE FROM CHAUCER TO THE PRESENT DAY (1380-1906) BY PAGET TOYNBEE, M.A., D.LITT., Oxon. Novisti forsan et ipse Traxerit ut DANTEM Phoebus per celsa nivosi Cyrrheos, mediosque sinus tacitosque recessus Naturae, coelique vias terraeque marisque, Aonios fontes, Parnasi culmen, et antra Julia, Pariseos dudum, serusque BRITANNOS. (Joan. Boccaccius ad F. Petrarcham) GINN & COMPANY BCSTON NEW YORK · CHICAGO · LONDON |