I1 Diritto if Italia su Trieste e Viable. (Milan: Fratelli
Bocce. 10 lire.)—The anonymous editor of this scholarly book hoe put together r. =As of documents illustrating the rights of Italy over Trieste and Istria, which were taken from the Venetian Republic by Austria in 1797, and, after being restored to Italy by Napoleon, were again placed under Austrian rule by the malevolent Congress of Vienna. The book will show British readers how deeply Italians through the past century have re- sented the presence of the Austrians in a province which was essentially Italian and in the great port of Trieste, which was developed by Italian enterprise. Crispi, as one of the later docu- ments reminds us, warned Bismarck that Italy, however un- willing to quarrel with Austria, would not endure the extension of Austrian power in the Balkans unless she were compensated by regaining the lost Italian province on the Adriatic. Germany postponed the breach between her allies, but Italy never forgot her just grievance, now remedied at last.
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