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** The Letters are remarkable for the analytioal powers which characterize them, and will be eagerly read by ail those who appreciate the value of the assertion, that * the proper study of mankind is ma».* The range of reading which they embody is no less extensive than the sincerlty as Wjell as depth of thought uid eamestness in the search after truth, which are their principal features. Without affectation or pedautry, faults arrived at by so easy a transition, they are marked by simplicity of diction, by an ease and grâce of language and expression that give to a subject, for the most part intricate and perplexini;, an inezpressible charm.**^ Weekly Dispatch,

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** This is a use fui book, infonned with IWely fe«Iing and aound judgment. It contains an exhibition of Italian Tlews of matten, social and political, by an Italian who bas learned to speak througb En^ish thougbU as well as Englith words. Particularly valuable are tbe sketches of récent Italian bistory ; for tbe prominent cliaracters are delineated in a cordial and sympatbetie spirit, yet ft-ee from enthusiastic ideas, and witb unsparing discrimination. . . . The criticisms on * Tbe Past* will rlciily repay perusal; it la, however, in * The Présent ' of Italy tbat the main interest of the book résides. This volame

does not merely possess an interest simllar to tbat of oontemporary works ; it sup • plies a desideratum, and is well adapted to aid tbe Englisb reader in forming a Just estimate of tbe great events now in pro. gresB in Italy. Not tbe least wonderflil part of tbe book is tbe entire mastery the author bas acquired of our language.*' — Examiner^ April.

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** A very rapid and summary résumé of the fortunes of Italy from tbe fall of the Roman Empire to tbe présent moment. — A work of industry and labour, written with a good purpose. — A bird's-eye vIew of the subject tbat will revive the recollections of tbe scholar, and seduce the tyro into a longer course of reading.** — Athenaum.

'* This work contains more information on the subject, and more références to the présent position of Italy, than we bave seen in any récent production." — Foreign Quarterfy Revieto.

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us is altogether eztraordinary, as that of a foreigner, and in the bigher quality of thought we may commend tbe author for bis acute, and often original, criticism, and his quick perception of the grand and beautiful in bis native literature." — Pre*' coit, in the Narth American Revieto,

** The work before us consists of a continuons parallel of the political and literary bistory of Italy from the earliest period of tbe middle âges to tbe présent time. Tbe author not only pénétrâtes tbe inner relations of those dual appearances of national life, but possèdes the power of displaying them to the reader with great deamess and eflfect. We remember no other work in whlch the civil conditions and literary achievements of a people bave been blended in such a séries of living pictures, representing successive periods of h\slovj."—Algemeine Zeitung.

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