CONTENTS OF VOL. CCLIII. Alexandria. By C. F. GORDON CUMMING Author, An, at Home. By W. LYND Barry, Mrs. Elizabeth. By DUTTON COOK Birds, The, in Poetry, from Chaucer to Wordsworth. By PHIL ROBINSON. Californian Forest, A. By C. F. GORDON CUMMING Deer Forest, In the. By Rev. M. G. WATKINS, M.A. 257 XXVIII., XXIX., XXX. 641 Egyptian Dervishes. By C. F. GORDON CUMMING Emerson, a Gift from. By ALEX. H. JAPP, LL.D. Garibaldi. By H. R. Fox BOURNE Istrian Journey, Notes of an. By H. F. BROWN Laws, The, of War. By J. A. FARRER L. E. L., The Story of. By PERCY FITZGERALD Metastasio. By JUSTIN H. McCARTHY. Pyramid Prophecies and Egyptian Events. By RICHARD A. Reade, Charles. By OUIDA Reade's, Charles, Novels. By WAlter Besant An Improvement on the Channel Tunnel-The Birth of the Moon The Utility of Drunkenness-A Visit to the Goodwin Sands- 112 m Science Notes-continuea. A Persecuted Fellow-creature-New Zealand Coal-seams-The PAGE 498 629 720 Star-Clouds and Star-Mist. By RICHARD A. PROCTOR. Lawless London-The Remedy for Juvenile Violence-Poetical The Beckford Collection-English Bookbinding-Cloth versus Leather-The Foreigner in London-Mr. William Morris on A Cream-producing Machine-An Actor on Acting-Tragic Education Prospects-Milton on Education-The Comet-- Psychological Puzzles The Utility of Folly and Vice Publishers and Authors Transits of Venus. By RICHARD A. PROCTOR War, The Laws of B, J. A. FARRER War, The, of the Wartburg. By LOUIS BARBÉ Warfare Naval. By J. A. FARRER Welen, The, in the West Country. By GRANT ALLEN 674 729 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. JULY 1882. GARIBALDI. HOSE to whom he assigned the duty betrayed their trust in THOSE not seeing that all which was left of Giuseppe Garibaldi, after the feeble breath had parted from the feeble body, was reduced to a small heap of ashes, and lodged, as he had bidden, in a secluded spot in the island home he loved. Rome may well be eager to hold the grave of the man who helped so much to give fresh life to Italy; and if a pompous tomb, adorned by princes and blessed by priests, is set up in the world's show-place, thousands will go thither every year to gaze and gape at it. But it would have been far better had his dead body been dealt with after the manner of the ancient Romans, whom in some aspects he so much resembled, and its purified relics modestly enshrined in Caprera, there to be visited by fewer but only reverent pilgrims. Garibaldi's heroism was of the old-world type, though all the good it did was done in the service of society in its latest develop ments. Garibaldi, Mazzini, Cavour: these, named in the order of their birth, were the three men to whom Italy owes most for its recovery, as yet but partial, from the political and social degradation in which it had lain for centuries before they performed their several parts in converting it into a new nation. In what order they should be named according to their merits is a question that will always be answered diversely by different critics. In the statesman's view Cavour stands first. He alone, of the three, knew how to weigh and balance political forces, how to temporise, and to follow rules of expediency. Whatever reason there may have been for the Mazzinians' and the Garibaldians' condemnation of his tactics, however inferior his ideal may have been to theirs, and however justly VOL. CCLIII, NO. 1819. B |