4 MAY 1918, Page 16

The English Historical Review for April contains an admirable memoir

by Mr. E. Armstrong of Signor Pasquale Villari, the great Italian historian and patriot, who died last December at the age of ninety. He was well known the world over as the biographer of Savonarola and Machiavelli, but for his countrymen he was an earnest, impartial, and plain-spoken reformer—" the conscience of Italy."