Ah, if the English press were in earnest in the cause of liberty, there would be something to say for our poor trampled-down Italy--much to say, I mean.

Under my eyes is a people really oppressed, really groaning its heart out.

But these things are spoken of with measure.
We are reading Lamartine and Proudhon on '48.

We have plenty of French books here; only the poets are to seek--the moderns.

Do you catch sight of Moore in diary and letters?
Robert, who has had glimpses of him, says the 'flunkeyism' is quite humiliating.