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After The Risorgimento Italy: A Modern History. By Denis...

Smith. (Mayflower, 60s.) HITHERTO English readers have been able to read much about Italy's unification but no adequate account of the aftermath. Mr. Mack Smith's fine......

Where The Twain Are Always Meeting

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