Count Campbello. An Autobiography, with an Introduction by Rev. William
Arthur, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—That this book is worth reading, need hardly be said. The Count is, for many years, the most distinguished ecclesiastic that has left the Roman communion, and what he has to say must necessarily have a certain weight. What this weight should be, no one can say with any precision. Mr. Arthur takes a very favourable view of the witness. Mr. Adolphus Trollope, in a late number of the British Quarterly Review, even distinctly admits that anything that could he said against him would be said with a foregone conclusion. Judging solely from the tone of this autobiography, we cannot say that we are much pleased. There is a bitterness in it, doubtless not without plenty of excuse, but that is certainly not judicial. On the other hand, to use violent language seems to be the rale in Italy. The Clerical Press in particular is almost as bad as Lord Randolph Churchill and Lord Lytton.
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