12 OCTOBER 1861, page 14
The "man On Horseback."
O NE of the favourite theories of the Conservatives is that the American crisis must lead to a military despotism. Rampant democracy, they say, invariably does so lead, and......
The Italian Ideologue.
lif MAZZINI has many of the higher qualities of a po- 17.1. litical prophet and saint, but he lacks the highest of them all. He is angry, like Jonah, because his prophecy has......