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 42 2 Reviews of Books based upon the testimony of participants in those events, and his recol- lections of childhood in the same city in the glorious days of 1859. Yarese is close to the Swiss border of Lombardy, and as a border city it offered peculiar advantages to the conspirator, and was strongly gar- risoned by the Austrian forces. The sketches of the meetings of cafe clubs, of home colloquies behind barred doors, of children's martial games, of conspirators' grim practical jokes, and of mothers' acts of Spartan sacrifice, are glimpses of the life not only of Varese, but that was lived in a hundred Lom.bard and Venetian cities as well, in days when hatred of foreign domination and the sense of nascent Italian nationality colored every act of public and private life. In few volumes upon the Risorgiuxcnto are these pictures so vividly drawn. They con- stitute an important contribution to history. H. Xelson G.ay. Memories and Thoughts. Men — Books — Cities — Art. By Frederic Harrison. (New York, The Alacmillan Company, 1906, pp. ix, 409.) This volume is a collection of articles which appeared during the past twenty-four years in various American and English periodicals of the better class. By the author the book is described as " a chapter from certain Memoirs that [he] intends to retain in manuscript penes se " The articles are occasional in origin, and in character they are miscel- laneous, varying in topic from discussions of card-playing and tobacco to appreciations of Tennyson and Renan on the occasion of their deaths. A section of twenty-three pages is devoted by Mr. Harrison to his impres- sions of America in 1901, and another of twenty pages to his memoirs from 1837 to 1896. The articles, forty-four in number, are necessarily brief. One of the longer paints an ideal future of London, and another treats of Paris's past. The part of the volume which approaches most nearly the province of the historian was written, as was most of the book, since 1895. This part may be divided roughly into two sections, the one discussing the makers of history and the other its writers. Of the former sort are the author's proposal in 1897 ^° celebr.ate the millenary of King Alfred in 1901, three articles on Oliver Cromwell, and single articles on Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin; while the historians who fall within the author's survey are Gibbon, Carlyle, and Motley. The occasion on which Mr. Harrison set forth his views on historical writing, under the title of " Scientific History ", was the appearance of Herbert Paul's Life of Fronde. The volume in general is critical in its nature; it offers little definite information to professional historians. To them indeed the book is not addressed. La Inquisicion dc Mexico. [Docunientos Ineditos 6 muy Raros i)ara la Historia de Mexico, edited by Genaro Garcia and Carlos Pereyra. Tomo v.] (Mexico, Bouret, 1906, pp. ii, 287.) The fifth volume of this valuable series contains twentv-six documents devoted to the history of