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 644 Reviews of Books Soutcrraine, par Charles Didier. In all, this volume contains thirty- two articles, of which only one-half appeared in the earlier Scritti Editi e Inediti. The other sixteen were all originally published in the hidi- catore Livornese and the Giovine Italia, the two rarest periodicals of the period; six of these, being of doubtful origin, are grouped separately in an appendix. No critical notes are given, but an excellent preface contains important and detailed bibliographical information. Unfortu- nately the subject-indexes which added so materially to the usefulness of the earlier edition will be wanting in the national edition, with what excuse it is difficult to understand. H. N. G. / Martiri di BMorc c il loro Proccsso: Narra::ionc Storica Docii- mentata. Per Alessandro Luzio. (Milano: Tipografia Edi- trice L. F. Cogliati. 1905. Two vols., pp. xx, 414; 422.) Profili Biografici e Bozzetti Storici. Per Alessandro Luzio. (Milano: Casa Editrice L. F. Cogliati. 1906. Pp. vii, 534.) In the last decade no one has done more for the progress of his- torical studies upon the period of the Italian Risorgimento, both in bringing forward new evidence from unpublished sources and in the establishment of rigorous standards of criticism, than Alessandro Luzio. His first work of importance in this field was a monograph upon Le Cinque Giornate di Milano (1899). This has been followed by Antonio Salvietti (1901); Radetsky (1901); II Processo Pellico-Maroncelli (1903); Giuseppe Mazzini (1905); and by the above-noted / Martiri di Belfiore. In Le Cinque Giornate he made use of much published Austrian material that had been neglected by preceding Italian, French, and English historians, the judicial examination of which may be said to have placed the history of this important episode for the first time upon a sound critical basis. In his other works, relating principally, it will be observed, to Italian struggles against Austria in the Lombardo- Veneto, upon which the documents of one party are of necessity ex- clusively in German, he has continued to use all the Austrian sources available, in this alone making a notable step forward toward the defini- tive Risorgimento history of this region of Italy. The breadth of view and sincerity of historical purpose evinced by this impartiality in investigation have emphasized rather than obscured Luzio's honest patriotism, and have won for him the confidence of many private depositories of valuable unpublished documents, which have been placed at his disposal; while as director of the Royal Archives of Mantua he has had access also to rich stores of state documents in Mantua and elsewhere. In / Martiri di BclHore he has taken full advantage of these exceptional opportunities, and has succeeded in bringing together a mass of well-ordered and carefully weighed evidence that has secured recognition for his volumes as by far the most important source upon the famous Austrian political trials and executions of Mantua from 1852 to 1855, and assures them a permanent place among primary