. The spell of Italy. nd her subsequent residence in Italy. In 1890 Countess Cesaresco published ItalianCharacters in the Epoch of Unification, breathing,as Mr, Thayer justly says, into every bit of biographythe breath of hfe. The Liberation of Italyappeared in 1894. It tells the story of the struggleand victory of a nation with a passionate patriotismalways controlled by a fine sense of justice. Themonograph on Cavour (1898) in the Foreign States-men Series, marks an even higher literary achieve-ment than the earHer books. The distinguishingfeatures of Countess Cesarescos writing are pene-tra
. The spell of Italy. nd her subsequent residence in Italy. In 1890 Countess Cesaresco published ItalianCharacters in the Epoch of Unification, breathing,as Mr, Thayer justly says, into every bit of biographythe breath of hfe. The Liberation of Italyappeared in 1894. It tells the story of the struggleand victory of a nation with a passionate patriotismalways controlled by a fine sense of justice. Themonograph on Cavour (1898) in the Foreign States-men Series, marks an even higher literary achieve-ment than the earHer books. The distinguishingfeatures of Countess Cesarescos writing are pene-trating insight into character, dramatic instinct forsituation, historical grasp, and compelling charm, —that rarest of aU distinctions. Bolton King, in his Italy To-day, has presentedan amount of general non-historical informationwhich is undeniably valuable; the book, however,seems to demand to be written over to-morrow, andto-morrow, and to-morrow. It is a ponderousvolume, and yet it strikes one as containing little. COUNTESS iMAHTINENGO-CESARESCO. The City of Forestieri 289 of value which is not found in two marvellouslycondensed essays of William Roscoe Thayers inthe aforesaid Italica, viz., Thirty Years ofItalian Progress, and Italy in 1907. Among my indispensables are the volumes onSiena, Perugia, Assisi, Verona, etc., published inLondon by J. M. Dent and Company under thegeneric title, Mediaeval Towns. These little books,exquisite in artistic finish, are the result of closestudy by competent writers who have gone intomore or less prolonged residence in each town underconsideration for the purpose of elucidating its his-tory, legends, architecture, and plastic art. Intothem are condensed the best content of whole localbibUograpliies. They should be purchased on thespot, to be used there and then and studied after-wards. The elaboration of detail makes them un-desirable for previous reading, as the memory re-fuses to appropriate such minutiae of material beforeactual conta
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