Editorial note — CITIES OF ITALY

A. A Zoological Menagérie has been placed in the park of the Villa Borghese!

B. Since this was written it has been done, entirely obliterating republican Florence, and creating a new enormous debt for the town.

C. Deputy for Corteolona, and leader of the Extreme Left.

D. Since this was written, one-half of these gardens have been destroyed; the other half bought by the Marchese Ginori.

E. This altar has been since, at the entreaty of the people, replaced in San Giovanni.

F. ‘I have in myself wondered strangely many a time how it is possible that in men who from their earliest youth have been used at the lowest price to bear bales of wool as porters and baskets of silk as carriers, and in a word to be little better than slaves all the day long, and to spend a great part of the night at carding and spinning, can in so many cases display, when there is opportunity and need, so much greatness of soul and such high and noble thoughts, and cannot only say but do such beautiful things as are said and done by them.’

Zanaiuoli means, literally, ‘whoever carries a basket’; there is no exact English equivalent.

G. It was not cancelled, and Molinari is now in the ergustolo of Oneglia.

H. To such an extent is the espionage on the salt-tax carried that a poor man living on the seashore is not allowed to take up more than one pail of sea-water to his house in one day lest he should expose the water to the heat of the sun and use the few salt crystals which its evaporation would leave at the bottom of the pail.

I. The taxes of the Government amounted to four hundred millions odd in 1873; in 1893 they amount to over eight hundred millions.

J. A footman of Lord Darnley’s was sentenced to pay £2 by the Rochester magistrates for having killed a dog by heaping burning coals on it! This in the end of the year 1894.

K. Suggested by an Address to the British Association at Aberdeen, 1885.

L. Science having shouted many hallelujahs over the telephone, now discovers that it is a terrible disseminator of disease!

M. See Times of September 19, 1885: account of duel in Munich.

N. See article ‘The Failure of Christianity.’

O. Whoever may care to study the brutal treatment of conscripts and soldiers in Germany by their officers is referred to the revelations published this year by Kurt Abel and Captain Miller, both eye-witnesses of these tortures.

P. Since this was written, the officer, Blanc-Tassinari, has been tried by a civil tribunal, found guilty of ‘culpable homicide and abuse of authority,’ and condemned to five months’ detention in a fortress, and a fine of £20 (500 fr.). This punishment will entail no privation, as he is rich, and will live as he pleases in the fortress, and when the five months have expired, will rejoin his regiment as if nothing had happened. De Felice, Molinari, Garibaldi-Bosco, Barbato, and hundreds of intelligent and disinterested patriots are brought before military courts, are sentenced to twenty, twenty-five, thirty years’ imprisonment, are condemned to prison diet, to shaved heads, to forced labour, to solitary cells, whilst this young brute, who made the lives of his soldiers a martyrdom, and is found guilty of culpable homicide, receives practically no chastisement whatever. And the English Press upholds and justifies the Government under which such enormities are possible.