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Modern Italy

A History of Italy, 1871-1915. By Benedetto Croce. Translated THESE two histories of Modern Italy form an illuminating complement one of the other. Benedetto Croce's canvas is......

Interior Decoration To-day

"PRIMITIVE men owned their own bracelets and their own pots before they owned their own canoes, and civilized men are likely to retain their own cigarette cases and their own......