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 646 Reviews of Books realized the character of this domination, when it refused to open to Luzio the Allgemeines Archiv des K. K. Ministeriums des Innern or the Kriegsarchiv in Vienna. Until the reports of the police and of the military inquisitions there deposited are known, definitive history cannot be written ; but nothing which they contain can mitigate the horrors of the anti-national oppression already revealed. When the time arrives in Austria for greater liberty in historical studies, it is to be hoped that Luzio will be permitted to be among the first to examine the sources which now must remain concealed. For the present he will undoubtedly be content to see these last volumes suffer the fate of prohibition in the Austrian dominions which was meted out by the Avistrian press censor to his earlier Radetsky. Aside from the monographs above mentioned, Luzio has published in recent years several briefer historical studies in periodicals. Some of these, together with many book-reviews, written principally for the Corriere della Sera, he has now brought together in the volume entitled Profili Biografici e Bossetti Storici. The greater number of these studies relate to the history of the Risorgimento; among the more im- portant are : " Costanza Arconati ", a sketch of " the good genius of the exiles of 1821 ", with many of her letters, 1829-1860; " Mantova nel Quarantotto ", a defense of the conduct of the Mantuans in 1848; " II primo Amore di Ippolito Nievo ", and " II Pensiero Artistico e Politico di G. Verdi", both of considerable biographical importance; and reviews of Abba's La Vita di Bixio (1905), Lumbroso's // Processo di Pcrsano (1905), Bartsch's Haynan (1903), and Barrili's edition of the Scritti di Mameli (1902). In his book-reviews Luzio invaribly succeeds in contributing some new fact, frequently some document previously unpublished, or neglected in the volume reviewed ; so that for its original material, as well as for its bibliographical information, his Profili is of greater value than most books of this character. H. Nelson Gay. Eriniicningcn, Aiifsiifac tnid Rcdcii. 'on Hans Delbruck, Pro- fessor der modernen Geschichte in der L^niversitat Berlin. ( Ber- lin : Georg- Stilke. 1905. Pp.625.) This volume by the widely known editor of the Prcussische Jahr- biicher brings together the same kind of material as was published by Professor Delbriick in 1887 as Historische und politische Anfsafac; the change of title is rather obscurely explained as due to the introduction of a stronger personal element. The 625 pages comprise thirty-four papers of quite varied character both in style and in subject; all but five were published in the Preussische Jahrbiicher 1887-1901, and only two appear to have received any modifying revision. The topics are for the most part incidents or aspects of the nineteenth-century reconstruc- tion of Germany, the only important exceptions being a paper on the Seven Years' War and three on social democracy. The leaning to mili-