CARY, HENRY FRANCIS translator of the Divina Commedia, was born at Gibraltar, the son of an army captain, and educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he devoted much time to the study of French and Italian literature. On leav ing Oxford he took holy orders. For about I I years he was assistant-librarian in the British Museum, and in 1841 he received a Crown pension. His translation of the whole of the Divine Comedy appeared in 1814, was praised by Coleridge, and passed through four editions during its author's lifetime. Though Cary's blank verse hardly reproduces the strength and terseness of Dante's terza rims, the translation has great merits.