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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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this famous womans life.It is literally, as its title puts it, The EleventhHour in the Life of Julia Ward Howe.^ The Reminiscences of an Army Nurse Duringthe Civil War,^ by Adelaide W. Smith, who de-scribes herself as an independent volunteer, tellsthe story of five years helpful work in various hos-pitals during the conflict. The account is writtenwith sentiment and sincerity. There are manypictures, and a full-page portrait of Lincoln. BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCEProbably the most picturesque and dramaticachievement in Europe during the 19th centurywas the Risorgimento, or the struggle of theItalians to win liberty, independence, and unity.This great work was accomplished by the threemen whose names are supreme in the Italian his- <The Eleventh Hour in the Life of Julia Ward Howe.By Maud Howe. Little. Brown & Co. 74 pp. 75 cents. Reminiscences of an Army Nurse During the Civil War.By Adelaide W. Smith. Greaves Publishing Company.263 pp., ill. 75S THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS
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CA\OUK S LAST PORTRAIT tory of a gcncralion—Ca\our, Mazzini, and (iari-hakli, the staUsnian, the i)hilosopher-agitator, andthe soldier. Cavour prol)aIil) shares with Bis-marck the highest phice among modern Europeannation-builders. Last summer the Italian people( elehrated the fiftieth anniversary of their triumphin achieving unity. During the past few weeksthey have taken the first steps in a career of imperi-alism, perhaps inevitable, but undreamed of b\ thefounders of their state. In an absorbingly in-lercsting biography, The Life and Times of(avour, in two volumes, William Roscoe Thayericlls not only the story of Ca\ours life, but givesus the first full account, to date, of the Risorgi-mento. Except Lincoln, no statesman of the nine-teenth century, it has been said, touches moreclosely the hearts of posterity than Cavour. Mr.rha>xr, who is a specialist in Italian history, makesus sec how it was the idea of Camillo Bcnso diCavour that vitalized into the conception of a na-tion

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