Just publis' 



ALY. 



cloth, 



. 



By the 



Third Editii 

 the 



" miiE in 



1 side' 

 Italy centre 



fulness, its pit 

 pictures of It 

 and its instruc 

 a full, clear lii 

 and conveys 

 very full and 

 the course of i 

 of which Ital} 

 is, the theati 

 \\ ' Mr. WLiuwoj.wv. iio icuiuvuu tw- 

 most the sole objection to his 

 as originally published. The author 

 now comes before the public with a 

 sound title to perusal. An abridged 

 second edition is generally a superior 

 book ; and in this ins tance Mr. White- 

 side has pruned away redundancies with 

 unsparing hand. His former three vo- 

 lumes are here compressed within the 

 compass of one ; and in its new shape 

 the work is not only more convenient 

 but more readable. All the racy pas- 

 sages remain ; the style is often mended ; 

 the facts are more compact ; the whole 

 texture of the work is closer ; and it 

 now presents a Picture of Italy in 

 which the details are well worked 

 out, which deals impartially with mat- 

 ters calling for a judicial spirit, and 

 never omits the assertion of what is 

 true and just against what is mere 

 mockery and wickedness. Many a more 

 philosophical book on Italy exists; but 

 none is, on the whole, more interest . 

 or has a giv, ity of information 



attractively a 



DUBLIN WAKDER. 



y on 



many of 

 hail this 

 t a time 

 rds Italy, 

 he dran 



'ore the 

 three, vo- 

 originally 



SSC : in!'! 



that this 

 t taken 

 k. Had 



me name 01 tue aumor not insured its 

 success, it must have attracted atten- 

 tion from the able manner and philo- 

 sophical spirit in which this brilliant 

 advocate has treated a very interesting 

 subject. The preface will form a link 

 for the reader from the publication of 

 the book in 1848 to the present time. 

 And we need scarcely call the attention 

 of the public to this result of two years 

 spent in Italy, comprising the last year 

 of the reign of Pope Gregory, and the 

 first of Pope Pius, announcing, as they 

 appear to do, the expiration of ancient 

 political systems, and the inauguration 

 of new and different principles of go- 

 vernment. The preface, which is now, 

 is occupied with the momentous changes 

 which have passed over Italy since Air. 

 Whiteside's visit ; but the observations 

 recorded in the body of the work have 

 no less lively an interest in relation to the 

 present time, although so much has hap- 

 pened since they were first noted down. 

 We all know the attractions of Mr. 

 Whiteside's sparkling style ; but a more 

 sterling merit of this book is its large 

 tolerance and thorough impartiality." 

 JOHN BULL. 



London t LONGMAN, GREEN, and CO. Paternoster Row. 



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