The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-14
ITALY'S HERO.
The Memoirs of General
Garibaldi.
A RECORD OF ADVENTURE.
His Life in South America and His
Battles for Liberty in
Europe.

PARIS. Sept. %, 1S94.-Mme. Canzo,
daughter Of GaIibaldi. is about to publish
the memoirs of her Industrious father.
1t is Garbaldi himself who speaks. for
the memoirs is an arrangement of his
| journal, with the passion for justice, the
disdain for meanness so characteristic of
this hero. Other books may give clearer
! idea of his exploits on the field of battle;
none will. like this, admit the reader to
/ his secret thoughts. The work is divided
| into five parts, corresponding to the prin-
cipal periods of Garibaldfs life. In the
| first he speaks of his life as a salor-boy
on board the CostanZa-his voyages, ad-
ventures on land and sea, shipwrecks,
combats in America, and even his expert
ences with the god of love. For woman
Garibaldi had the greatest respect, and he
always declared her superior TO man. The
love he bore his mother was responsible,
in a great degree, for this opinion; but
portion of the memoirs are devoted to his
companion. Anita, her bravery, fatigueS
and dangers.
The chapter in which he relates his
meeting with Anita is called InnamoratO.
and is simply charming. Garlbaldi, from
his ship, sees on the shore beautiful
young woman. Springing into canoe, he
the husband of the beauty. He is invited
I to the house to take cup of coffee. He
enters. THE first woman | see is the one
whose beauty had attracted me to the
shore. AT first we are silent, absorbed by
| a kind of ecstasy. Suddenly / have cour-
! age 10 say to her, 'Tu dev esser mia!'
| you must be mine). | had just made an
| engagement that death alone could cancel.
| Ii there were sin, let the sin fall on me, on
| me alone. Yes, there was sin, for II two
/ ~ L. 8 1caIx,
united by an irresistible force. it was not
done, alas! without destroying the exist
ence of an honest man."
They fed and took part in the South
! American wars. There we see Garibaldi
powerless to prevent the pillage of Imirivi
! Uruguay. We see him compelling his
drunken crew to embark; we see his COM
| pGniODs playing brlscola on the corpse of
| cOmrade; we see him galloping across
! the Dampas-ln fact, serving his appren-
tceship for The future He took his de-
| greeS when he commanded land and sea
forces in the oriental republic of Uruguay.
When came 1S4S Garibaldi. with hand
ul of men, set sail for Italy, saw his
mother, broken by age. and wished to re-
main with her. but as he said, How can
| stay quietly in this land 9" The years
184S-4o, up to 1859. are all described by
Garibaldi's pen explicitly and POLITICALLY.
But the favorite souvenir of the nero is
the expedition of One Thousand in 1860:
"Oh, night of March 5, night sparkling
with stars, sown by the al-powerful in
spacei How beautiful, serene and Solemn
vast thou as we rushed to an oppressed
peopleW Then he expresses the bitter re-
greet that when making his triumphal
march through the kingdom of Naples he
did n OF proclaim the Italian repu bile. But
he does not allow the MaZZinians To make
of this mistake a crime. These conspira-
tors he treats with bitter disdain. Cavour
and the MaZzinians Garibaldi despises
more than all else. and each time he speaks
of them he seems to grind his teeth:
The fourth part of the memoirs" takes
us TO Aspromonte and begins by tho Gu
rious recital of his escape from Carers.
There his heart is tortured by the indlffer-
ence of the Roman population, and the
ianguor of the volunteers. AS to the
Italian volunteers, he declares without
hesitation that their desertiUn at Montero-
tondO was the cause of his defeat, and this
because Of the followers of MaZZini. "The
Mazzineria profitad by the circumstance to
sow encouragement among the vOlun teers.
But this did not prevent 1t later from CIV
ing me the 'donkey's kick. 'LetuS return
home to proclaim the republic and make
barricades,' said these brave ones. The
result was to take away from me at a de-
cisive moment about 5000 men, the half of
my force.
Speaking Of the disaster at Montana, be
says: my volunteers abandoned, almost
without resistance, most admirable posts
When these positions were regalned it
only needed the report of an imminent at
tack from the French to strike 'Pultimo
crollo ALA coDtanZa del volontarp (the last
and they disbanded.''
The last part of the book is devoted to
the war or 1870. 1t treats OF operations
directed by him self, but Garibaldi makes
no alIusion 10 the astonishing attitude of
the French ROyalist majority in the 6Or-
deaux Assembly with reference to the
only illustrious foreigner who placed his
sword at he service of France. He re-
grets that his name was used during tbs
campaign, but that he never was engaged
in serious action. According to Carl baldi,
the greatest mistake was not to have
military dictator and 10 make his head
quarters the headquarters of the French
army. Again, Germany's great strength
throughout the war was the Capitalization
of her military and diplomatic service.
Garibaldi, who dreamed of universal peace.
wrote just before his death these lines
, War is the true life of man"
Thus. we see, the book will be of in tense
interest, and admirers of Giuseppe Carl
baldi have in store great treat.
Garibaldi was hero like those of olden
times not like one of this modern
: epoch. To-day money is the chief thought,
and good patriots are those who financier
well for their countries. Garibaldi could
I have been rich. bot preferred to remain
, poor, His indifference to money often
placed him in great embarrassment. In
August. 1874, he was advised by his physi-
= clan to leave the island of Caprera and TO
> pass few weeks at Sorrento on the bay
of Naples.
! The Baron Salvador, who then occupied
. one of those picturesque villas on the bor-
5 ders of the Mediterranean. placed it at the
3 disposal of the hero, and received the fol-
f, lowing letter, written by Garlbaldi him.
) self: