Show F1ttCESC cnij ri Crispi is no whit inferior to Blsmarrk Jn courage and he shares with the great German his cynical contempt for the opinion opin-ion of the majority During his second tenure of the premiership Crispi has shown a desire to conciliate his opponents bur during his first administration to ruled the chamber with an ungloved t > r arny which Bismarck himself would hardly hard-ly have ventured to display But her thf > real or fancied resemblance between fiis pi and Bismarck ceases The Italian belongs be-longs to the Cavour rather than to the Bismarck type of statesman That is t < > say his greatness 5s due to the force and subtlety of his intellect rather than to his courage and determination He has a heater hea-ter temper than Cavour and being less the master of himself is occasionally k < 4 the master of the situation than favour would have been but the future will judgro the two awn by their achievements rather than by their idosyncrasles of temperament tempera-ment There have been three distinct pencils in the life of Critpi He was at first a republican conspirator next a iarticil politician and finally a stem and ruthless enemy of militant radicalism But there was never any sudden change in the man lIe has been from the first an opportunist in the setose that he was reaJv to accept any lawful weat > on that would help him In his fight for Italy Given his clear ir tellectual perception of facts and his passionate pas-sionate patriotism it was inevitable that the man should pass through a course o political evolution That hf has ever sac riftced his convictions for the sake of per sonal profit no one who really knows the nina will for an instant bolleye W L Alden in the Nineteenth Century |