New-York tribune., 1912-01-28

dupe. Napoleon, and of his many op-
ponents. The sketch of Antonelii is BIT
ten deep with the acid OF contempt ana
the point of a fine Indignation. 1t is, IN
deed. against the temporal power OF the
Papacy. against the conditions 1t ere
ated in the Papal States. that MT
Thaver's "partisanship" is directed with
all the strength a. his command; put he
is careful throughout to distinguish oe-
tween the Church-the religion-and the
corruption and oppression perpetrateo III
II name. Nor are the conservative
English statesmen before Lord John
Russell and Palmerston permitted to es-
cane scot free. while as for the Prince
Consort and the King OF Belgium. VINO
botween them shaped and directed the
Dolitical opinions Of Queen Victoria, Mt
Thayer expresses himself with the great
oct Freedom. Prince Albert consistently
onrosed Cavour. whom he considered
an unscrupuous and unprinclpled thiro-
class politician Above all, he sought 10
ovort the Austro- French War OF 1893;
vet the Italian statesman brought II
aho,t on the day. so tradition has II.
,,bicb he had set for its declaration
,,,o socond of his three master strokes.
OF Cavours private life and character
the author gives us succinct account
OF noble birth, he was unswervinsly
loval TO the duties Of his caste nopiesse
oblige'' was no idle phrase to him. HIS
daily life WAS simple: indeed, the man
an,.ears TO have been almost entirely alb
,arhod bv tho unpreccdentcd task OF the
statesman His emotional experience
sooms TO have ended with his carly love
for the Countess Anna Guistiniani'
woman his senior by several years or
arc mind and great personal fascina-
ion who idolized him and OWNED In
i'm the man of genius. Cavour would
have given up his future for her Mr..
Thayer assures us-it certainly did not
lCok promising at that tme-but she
with her feminine foresight. forbade the
sacrifice. This 10 Q affair" the author
saws. CLOSED Camille Cavour's period of
storm and stress" His many sallantries
thereafter apparently never stirred even
the surface of his life.
Mr Thayer Cmits "A photography. be-
cause the time has passed when that
rather specious credential Of erudition
should he allowed 10 cumber general his
tories" Instead, he refers his readers IN
his preface to certain historians who
have dealt at greater length than he
does in this political biography with the
economic, sociological and military
phases of the Risorgimento.
Garibaldi and his Thousand have their
chapter of honor in Mr.. Thayer's work
Mr.. Trevelyan has already devoted 10
them a spirited volume "Garibaldi and
the Thousand" and now completes the
record of the heros services TO his coun-
try. begun in "GaribY Yldis Defence of the
Roman Republic" with "Garibaldi and
the Making of Italy" He takes up the
narrative where il left off in the pre-
vious volume, at the capture of Palermo
and traces the course oc the larger mill
tary and political events by which tho
enterprise. transferred to the mainland
led to the establishment Of the kingdom
Like Mr. Thaycr. he closes the record
with that event. hut for different rea-
son. for his hero lived TO he wounded by
an Italian bullet at Aspromontc two
years later on his march 10 Rome. To
visit England I'm triumph and 10 take
up arms for Italy again I'm 1866 against
the traditional enemy. Austria. once
more. in the following year. he made an
other desperate rush on Rome. TO be
stopped by French troops. and when at
last. in 1870, the Italians did enter the
Eternal City he was not there to share
their triumph though many Of his old
companions were. His effort TO aid
France under arms i'm 1870 was the last
Of his exploits. the practical ending uf
a career whose glamour grows I'm legend
ary proportions as its hero recedes fur
ther into the historic past. All this Mr.
Trevelyan mentions but briefly. and he
omits all mention Of the civic honors be
slowed upon Garibaldi by Italy. LOYAL 10
him TO the ast-his election TO the
Chamber as Deputy for Rome the gen
erous pension voted TO him. Garbaldi's
true work. on which is based his claim