on the Rand. He set up a store there in
1887 " on the bare published by the British Committee of the Trento-Trieste
National Association of Italy, has ceased publication as a weekly journal and will, it is hoped, reappear as a monthly review. Modern Italy has done good work in explaining the Italian claims in the Adriatic and in describing the political situation in Italy. The vast majority of British people are full of goodwill towards Italy, but they are imperfectly informed about Italian affairs. Any journal that tends to dissipate the prevailing ignorance is to be encouraged. In the closing number of Modern Italy Mr. Richard Begot shows the dangers of ignorance or half-knowledge in a frank article on " Anti-Italian Propaganda in England." Soldiers' gossip, taken too literally, has, he fears, assisted the malevolent propagandists, partly German and partly Clerical, who still seek to cause ill-feeling between Italy and Great Britain. For our part, we think that the anti-Italian propaganda in this country has failed to interest the public. The Italians, a very sensitive people, tend to exaggerate the significance of casual references to the Adriatic controversy. British opinion in the mass is, as always, most favourable to Italy.
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