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The Review of Reviews. 



THE ITALIAN REVIEWS. 



The Italian magazines are naturally full of articles 

 dealing with Tripoli and Turkey, written before the 

 Italian ultimatum, and of notes on the military 

 situation that has developed since. They all go to 

 prove the very deep national feeling that has grown 

 up against Turkey, and the strength of the conviction 

 that, in the international situation as it is developing 

 in the Me 'iterranean, Tripoli is Italy's due. Thus, 

 the Rasseg/ia Contcmporanea declares that hitherto 

 United Italy has been in its infancy and has followed 

 a feeble and impulsive policy, but that to-day there 

 is an awakening of virile national sentiment in favour 

 of decisive and immediate action in Tripoli, which 

 has saved Italy from a suicidal policy of inertia. 

 The Civiltd Catlolica is reserved but sympathetic 

 and rejoices that the Government has sent out 

 chaplains with the troops. The Rassegtia Nazionak 

 dwells on the " miserable and grotesque spectacle " 

 'of the Socialists in calling a national strike against 

 the war. The Niiova Antologia asserts that no 

 country welcomed the advent to power of the Young 

 Turk more cordially than did Italy. But the illusion 

 was brief. The Constitutional army, a weak instru- 

 ment in the hands of the army, showed itself quite 

 incompetent to initiate the task of national regenera- 

 tion. Hence fresh dangers from which Italy could 

 only protect herself by the annexation of Tripoli. 

 The expedition was imposed on the Government by 

 the national will ; to have seen any other Power in 

 possession of the coveted land would have been a 

 heavy moral blow to the prestige of Italy. Thus it 

 appears that outside the Socialist ranks all shades of 

 opinion are in favour of a policy of aggression. 



Two articles in the Nnova Aii'ologia deal with 

 English authors, Oscar Wilde and G. Bernard Shaw. 

 The former is mainly devoted to a discussion of his 

 moral weaknesses and of the events that landed 

 him in Reading Gaol ; the latter gives a short r'esume 

 of the author's various plays, but does not contain 

 much ''original criticism. G. Buonaniti contributes 

 some pleasantly-written and wholly favourable im- 

 pressions of Ireland, more especially of the piety of the 

 people. The author is led to realise that the influence 

 of Celtic Christianity on Catholic devotion and liturgy 

 has often been overlooked. 



Emporium for October is full of artistic interest. 

 Visitors to the remarkable exhibition of historical 

 i)ortraiture held in Florence this summer will find the 

 number an excellent souvenir, as it contains over 

 thirty admirable reproductions of the most note- 

 worthy exhibits. Another article by I.. O/.zola is 

 inspired by the English Art pavilion in the Rome 

 Exhibition, which excited much admiration in artistic 

 circles. Sargent and Lavery are taken as our two 

 most representative portrait-painters, and many of 

 llieir works are reproduced, the author declaring that 

 " the spontaneous grace and the elegant simplicity of 

 the figures reproduced in those portraits are not 



wholly due to the talents of the painter, but partly to 

 the models themselves, to their good taste, and to 

 the aesthetic atmosphere in which they live." 



A personal sketch, full of intimate touches, of the 

 late Queen Maria Pia of Portugal is contributed to 

 the Rassegna Nazionak by A. Ragghianti, who 

 evidently had frequent access to Court circles in 

 Lisbon. It is a pathetic story, and will appeal to all 

 who like to see the veil lifted in which royal lives are 

 usually shrouded. 



The Dublin Review. 



The October number iias more than usual to say 

 upon passing political topics. The veiled attack of 

 the Unionists upon the Crown, as well as Mr. Francis 

 MacDermot's " Fiscal Powers of an Irish Parliament," 

 have been separately noticed. Mr. Lancelot Lawton 

 treats of the foreign politics of the day, and heartily 

 applauds the action of the Government, dwelling with 

 especial satisfaction upon the proof that the Triple 

 Entente has given, over the Morocco incident, of its 

 vitality and power. Mr. W. S. Lilly recalls some 

 modern martyrs of the Catholic faith, who suffered 

 death at the hands of the French Revolutionists, and 

 he declares that the same hatred exists to-day in the 

 breasts of the men in power in France. The Com- 

 tesse de Franqueville extols as a great French Bishop 

 the late Mgr. Dadolle, Bishop of Dijon, who main- 

 tained that the social question " came from the lips 

 and heart of Jesus Christ in a world of which two- 

 thirds of the population were slaves." 



Baily's' Magazine. 

 Bailfs Magazine of Sports and Pastimes for 

 November contains a review of the Yachting Season 

 of 1 91 1, notable for the first properly organised 

 international regatta, that held at Spithead. In the 

 large yacht classes, the writer says, British boats were 

 beaten all along the line, but in small yachts, steered 

 by amateurs, British boats easily came first. Another 

 article in a magazine which, though excellent in its 

 way, is somewhat technical for the general reader, is 

 upon "The Passing of the Big-horn," the Oris 

 Montana of North America, which, however, the 

 writer thinks not in imminent danger of extinction. 

 It is one of the most difficult of all animals to hunt, 

 because of its scarcity and the rough country which it 

 inhabits, to roam about which makes immense 

 demands on the endurance of the hunter. It is very 

 difficult to say how many big-horn sheep still exist, 

 but in Colorado, where they are protected, they are 

 estimated to number between 3,000 and 5,000 head, 

 scattered over the mountain ranges in bands of from 

 forty to fifty. Another article is on Rowland 

 Egerton-Warburton, whom the writer calls a " great 

 hunting poet,'' but anyone with even a moderately 

 fine ear will find much fault with some of the speci- 

 mens of his verses quoted. 



