6 JUNE 1896, Page 26

Some Annals of an Italian Village. By Madame Galetti. (Horace

Cox.)—We have here a curious picture of Italian life, not without a certain photographic minuteness in some of its parts. Tito, selfish and indolent, content to be the great man of the petty village in -which he lives, has all the appearance of having been drawn from life. An element of terror is intro- duced into the somewhat humdrum life of the village by the crime of the anarchist Gigio. Don Orazio is a fine specimen of the best kind of Italian patriot.