25 SEPTEMBER 1959, page 27

'ear More Than Any Other Year Before Or Since Was

this the punctuation-mark of the twentieth- century,' writes Mr. James Cameron in the pre- face to 1914; and he has had the good idea of compiling a sort of historical scrapbook......

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......