Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-19

Special Correspondence.
= LORENCE. oct THE memoirs OF
Francesca Crispithe Italian states
man. arc finally to see the light
after o long delay which has much I'M
creased public expectation regarding
the nature Of these posthumous papers
pcuned by one who played so important
O part On the policy not only of italy
but of an Europe. u has been forcseen
that there win be- more than one high
favored page iu the memoirs con-
sldcring the active share Crispi took IN
.he affairs of hts country first as a re-
publican member of Parliament ana
later ass converted minister of the mon
archy. his great friendship with bis-
marck, his epic domestic troubles, ana
his connection with the scandals and
br0gli0s OF the Italian banks.
Unfortunately the work VIII mere ana
there reveal the senile hand that pro-
duced 10. Crism never thought serious
ly OF the task until fallen from popular
favor and almost blind, De took adNan-
tage of an operation that gave MIN
back his sight some four months De
fore his death to write the memoirs.
lie passed away deserted by friend B
and adulators. AL his villa in Naples,
the 10th of August. 1901; and the menu
bcrq 81 his family assert that MS emo
was hastoned through the activity ne
displayed iu this last work Which con-
ealed him I'm his loneliness and loss or
his partisaus who had turned against
him in his impotence.
BY order OF his viii the memoirs We're
90 be published Immediately atter MS
death: but litigation eusucd between
the state and his relatives and heirs,
carving the question who was the own
er Of the memoirs from one tribunal 20
another and 90 was only lately mat
the opposing parties in the quarrel
came To- am 3micahle understanding mat
per1nitted the appearance OF the book.
SHEDS NEW LIGHT.
Great importance IS given to the mem
Oirs because it IS affirmed that its
effect viii be to cause Italian history
TO be rewritten, owing to the new light
Crisp sheds ON the organization and
the constitution OF the United King
dom. The first OF the three volumes.
drawn evidently from notes made at
the time. deals with the revolutionary
period OF Italy Crispis connection with
the ravolutionists. Grt the lively role
the dead statesman filled I'm his cOun-
try's uprising against tyrannic rule.
The volume also includes the writer
correspondence with Mazzini and Gar
ibaldi. his opinions Of those person
ages and his eventual split with the
latter-in 1S63-when the two friends
parted forever causing Crispi 20
change his opinion of Mazzini. who re-
manned an obdurate republican. Not
withstaEdiug his cnmity. Crispi has
handled Mazziui In his memoirs with
great impartiality.
The second volume treats of Crispis
rise TO the summit of italian politics
and his career as minister up 20 the
year 1891 when through "a vote OF lack
Of confidence the Crispi cabinet was
obliged 90 dissolve. Crispi however, re-
emerged 90 public view I'm the melau-
choly period Of the African disaster.
which was the beginning of his un-
popularity. ono of tho post important
ides of the work is tho intercourse be-
tween Crispi and hl- narcE ANA the
consequent causes that produced the
isolation Of italy I'm 1875. the occupa-
ton Of Tunis and the 1issension be-
tween Italy and France that threw the
former into the triple alliance.
II Is TO De regretted that owing 90