New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-04


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labor of love. It would not be possible to ac-
count IN any other way for its exceptional
merit Mr.. Trevelyan, as other publications of
his have shown, has all the qualities of the
grave MISUNDERSTANDING, industry and
faculty for cool Judgment. These qualities play
their parts we'll upon the present occasion. But
added TO them is the force Of an enthusiasm
that again and again makes the author posi-
lively eloquent. He seems to have penetrated
TO the soul OF the Italian Hberator. and. in
understanding him, to have been fired by a
sense OF the mans lovable greatness. He
knows his heros faults, and does not hesitate
10 speak freely of the mistakes which TO
be charged against him. But he knows. Also
how trihng the defects in Garibaldrs character
appear when that splendid figure is studied at
full length. Best Of all, he has saturated him
self in the history of the Garibaldian legend. so
that he is able TO make his reader see just how
II was developed, just how this patriot slowly
but steadily imposed himself upon the italian
imagination until he adored few ma
tional leaders have ever been adored- In fact,
Mr.. Trevelyan writes at once with the detach-
ment Of the impartial student and the insight
which one would only expect from man who
had been intimate with Garibaldi, and, at his
side, had lived through the events which culmi-
mated in the consolidation of Italian unity. He
has drawn a remarkable portrait, strengthened
with documentary evidence and richly envened
with anecdote This Is the kind of historical
writing of which it be truly said that il
makes better reading than you will find in most
novels.
Garibaldi was a rebel from his earliest years.
As lad the Mediterranean shore, his sea-
faring father strove to make a landsman Of
him and strove in vain. The boy was fifteen
when, with several companions he surrepti-
tiously sailed away from Nice and his fathers
house, with vague plans for reaching Genoa
The young voyageTs were overtaken off Monaco,
but for of them at least the venture had a
happy ending Garibadi was sent to sea, and
in ten years he had worked his way up from
ca bin boy to captain He had not much educa-
ton to start with. and he never had the in
clination, even if ne had had the time to make
himself in the smallest degree a bookish man.
His genius was for action, and. fortunately for
him when he was growing up in the thrties
European affairs were rapidly travelling toward
g crisis Of sort to attract his sympathies and
engage his energies. Young Italy" had arrived
at a consciousness of itself. and was secretly
organizing its resources. Mazzini was dreaming
his first dreams and Garibaldi all aflame
with eagerness to make those dreams realities.
He plunged with gusto into the liberal move
the Piedmontese government had condemned
him 10 death. He fed 10 South America and
there led the life of an adventurer, fighting on
land and on sea, hunting. winning a devoted
wife, and altogether savoring such experiences
as might give inspiration 10 poet. Mr. Treyel-
yan well says that "Garibaldi had, perhaps the
most romantic life that history records. for it
had all the tTaDDings as well as the essence OF
romance Though he lived in the nineteenth
full part in the common prose life of civilized
men. and so he never understood il, though he
moved il profoundly, ike a great wind blowing
of an unknown shore"
When he made up his mind to marry Anita
Riberas he carried her off on board his ship
though her father had already decided to make
her the wife u another man. Her love puts the
last touch Of romance to his career in these ear
er years. Anita shared ali his hardships accom-
/panying him on the strange guerilla campaigns
which as q soldier Of fortune he made his chief
occupation, She was his JOY and comfort in
those thrilling days in which lie formed the
famous Italian Legion Of Monte Video. Even
then. as young man with q wife and family,
be showed a Spartan unselhshness. Mr.. Ire
velyan quotes story Of this period about facts
which one Of he merchants of Monte Nideo
brought TO the attention OF -he Minister Of War.
In the house OF GaribaIdI the commander Of the
Italian Legion and Of the National Fleet, the man TO
whom Monte Nide0 owed its life from day TO day,
no lignt was lit after shutdown because candies
were not comprised IL the soldiers ratons the only
tnng 6arosloi had 10 i've on. the minister lheFe-
Lpon sent, b. his aide-de-camp O. NJ Torres, a
hundred gataco9ni ye hundred francs 10 Gari6aIdi
who, Keeping half this sum. gave back the other
half h. order that IL should be the house
Of a widow, who. according te him, had more need
Of if. Fifty patacc9a 1.-TWO hundred and fifty francs)
wac the only money that Garibaldi had from the
lived in poverty: ne was never dressed differently
fron tho soldiers: often lis friends had to resort
- suoteiLlges TO make him change lbs worn out
CLOTHES He had all the Inhabitants Of Monte Video
19t MS iilend5; never was man there more uni
'eIseAy loved, and il was only natural.
He would take the last pennies in the house
to buy toy for his child. Mr. TreveIyan tells,
too. how he appeared one day on parade with
ms golden locks close shorn. because the uni
Fersal and passionate alteration of him by the
ieales Of Monte Video distressed Anita, and he
had for her relief despoiled his beauty" No
Sonth American plaudits, however, could deafen
MS ears 70 the call Of Italy. All the time he
was N correspondence with his fellow conspira-
'olh al nome, and in 164s that explosive year in
Tue political annals Of Europe, he was on his
way with other exiles 70 fight, if fate would per-
hit H. for his native land. There was something
eOont him that marked him out for leadership.
Ahzah' one Of his comrades. who returned only
!" oie al Genoa, spoke prophetic words when he
deprecated the irritation which Garibaldi had
PROVOKED amongst some OF his friends. do not"
ne SAID be too hard on CaribaIdi; he is a man
" oesuhy; great part Of the future OF Italy
P'nus on him. and it viii be a grave error TO
1No'h nm He need not have worried. BY
~'e uIAe Garibaldi. after desultory campaigning
4ie 70 assist Mazzini ia the establishment OF
e roman Republic, he had proved himself one
uie most magnetic recruiting officers ever
wi "N. Inc young men rallied round him In a
ha