historian, the present volume is the first in which an attempt
has been made to portray the lineaments of the man as well
as the statesman. M. Paléologue's eminent qualifications
for undertaking such a task do not need to be explained
to a public already well acquainted with an accomplished
memoirist and historian. His lifelong experience in diplomacy
gives a peculiar authority to his account of Cavour's foreign
policy. Nor does Cavour himself require any introduction
to English-speaking readers whose ancestors contributed so
largely to that enfranchisement of Italy for which Cavour
worked and fought with all his heart and soul and intellect.

Happy in his life, and in the knowledge, which was his
before he died, that his life-work was about to be crowned
with success, Cavour was no less happy in the moment of
his death. For he died at fifty-one, before Age had come
to dull the brilliant intellect, or enfeeble the vigorous physique,
and yet, in Lord Palmerston's memorable phrase, not "too
soon for his glory or his fame." In the hierarchy of Euro-
pean statesmen his name stands out with a quite peculiar
distinction, for to him was given what is granted to very
few men--to be the creator of a nation, the "architect" of
a great modern State.

IAN F. D. MORROW.

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