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Show A SUDDEN LEAP INTO RENOWN. In that burst of disapproval with which European newspapers hailed tho outbreak of war between the Sultan Sul-tan in Constantinople and the King of Rome, the name of tho Marquis dl San Giullano leaped Into sudden renown. re-nown. The descent of the Italian licet upon the coast of Tripoli scored scor-ed a personal triumph for tho one statesman with whom modorn Rome, according to the London press goner-ally, goner-ally, can compare Talleyrand himself ln diplomacy Ho has worked for this war during many years of obscurity ob-scurity and the most heartless indifference indif-ference to his alms. Its success bids fair, unless the general oqq of Eur-opea Eur-opea be In error, to placo the mysterious mys-terious Marquis 'in the list of those few national heroes who have won empire without taking the field. He Is thoroughly disliked abroad and seemingly not altogether appreciated at home. In Vienna, according to tho London Chronicle his warmest friend In tho foreign press he Is nu object of suspicion. The Marquis dl San Giullano returns hate with hate Ho dislikes his country's ally, Austria, as thoroughly as she detests him The greater Italy that Is to be must bo his nchleement. This temperamental and typically Latin Marquis dl San Giullano Is perhaps bettor known ln London than ln any other European capital. That is tho impression of so careful a student stu-dent of his ways and works as the London Chronicle which, In a clugos- istic character aKctcn, reminus m world that tho Italian was Embassador Embassa-dor from the King of Italy to the Kins of Britain for some active years. Ho lmpresbcd the English then as summing sum-ming up In his person everything that a great Italian ought to be as pol-lBhod pol-lBhod as a Chestorfleld In his politeness, polite-ness, as Impeachable as a Petrarch In his taste and as brilliant as Machla-volll Machla-volll himself In his diplomacy. Tho Marquis 1b pronounced by the London dally Just cited "the strongest nnd best equipped personality that has Berved tho Italian government since tho fall of Crlspl" Tho Marquis, sayB thlB uuthorlty, Is a Sicilian nobleman no-bleman of Norman descent with a bearing and a dignity that suggest tho centuries behind his anccstral tree. Somo 5S years of age, a senator sena-tor of the kingdom and thus removed from the exigencies of electioneering, he 1b a confirmed student of foreign affairs. Diplomacy Is the passion of his existence. He has, as one witty enomv of his romarks, made it his mistress inBtead of his wife Current Literature. |