Italy Revisited. By E. S. G. S. (City of London
Publishing Company.)—This book is an account of a journey to Caprera, under- taken by an English lady who was anxious to be present at the funeral of Garibaldi. It is written from a strongly Protestant point of view, which may possibly offend many persons who are not members of the Church of Rome, and suffers throughout from a want of self-restraint on the part of the authoress, frequently leading her into what sounds like cant. She is not, however, devoid of descriptive power, and writes under the influence of an evidently genuine enthusiasm. From the specimens given in the volume before us, we should judge
that her prose was better than her poetry. The assertion, on page 145, that "slow iteration is of the very essence of the sublime, as dis- tinguished from the melodious variety of beauty," will hardly com- mand universal assent, even if limited to landscape.
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