23 JULY 1887, Page 25

Rome its Princes, Priests, and People. Translated from the Italian

of David Selvagni by Fanny McLaughlin. Vol. III. (Elliot Stock.) —We have noticed the earlier volumes of this work, and need only say of that now before us, that it contains an account, written, it is clear, by "one who knows," of the Pontificates of Leo XII., Gregory XVI., and Pius IX. There are glimpses, too, of artistic and social life in Rome. We have sketches of Canova, of Madame Letitia, and Pauline Borgbese, the Torlonia family, Cardinal Antonelli (a sin- gular personage to be the Grand Vizier of a Puritan Pope), and many others. The volume will not please friends of the Papacy, nor is it, we should fancy, to be implicitly trusted; but it supplies at least some of the materials of history.