The Collapse of the Kingdom of Naples. By H. Benison
White- house. (Bonnell, Selvor, and Co., New York. 6s.)—Mr. White- house gives us a description of the upper and under currents of history, as they may be called, during the period which covered the fall of the Kingdom of Naples. He begins with Mr. Glad- stone's famous letters (in 1651), but goes back to give a brief resume of Neapolitan rule from the beginning of the century. In 1848 Italy felt the common impulse to change, and Ring Ferdinand followed his brother monarchs in granting a Consti- tution. The gift was soon recalled, and Naples was soon worse off than any other part of Europe. Mr. Whitehouse tells the story of what followed with a full knowledge. We are not ready to accept all that he says about Cavour and the Sardinian policy, but it is worth weighing ; on the whole, too, few will doubt that Garibaldi's enterprise would not have prospered as it did without the support of the North Italian Power behind it.
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