20 JULY 1889, page 23

Current Literature.

By far the most noteworthy paper in the July number of the Universal Review — a number distinguished otherwise by an almost emphatic sobriety of tone, both in letterpress and in......

Rural Italy.*

Ma. BEADCLERIC is a writer who has the courage of his con- victions. He begins by quoting in his preface a pessimistic view of the state of Italy—he does not say from what......