f Mazzini, with whom I was already in open
strife, namely, that during the whole series of our negotiations, I had
but to congratulate myself on his loyalty, and the moderation of his
character, which have earned for him all my esteem.... Now that he has
fallen from power, and that he seeks, doubtless, an asylum in a foreign
land, I ought to render homage to the nobleness of his sentiments, to his
conviction of his principles, to his high capacity, and to his courage."

The man who can win, from the depths of disappointment and adversity, such
a tribute from one politically opposed to him, must have something very
extraordinary in himself--and such a man is Mazzini. The faults alleged
against him are his enthusiasm, which leads him into rash and precipitant
measures, and his indomitable will; or, we would rather call it, his
unconquerable tenacity of purpose, which is deaf to argument, and spurns
control; but it is only his political character that is liable to these
charges. His virtues are all his own. When he was in office at Rome he
gave the whole of the salary allotted to him to the hospitals, stating
that his own private income, though moderate, was sufficient for his
wants; and never does distress, in any shape that he may have the power to
alleviate, appeal to him in vain. Had he not concentrated all his
abilities, all his energies upon the one grand object of his life, the
independence of his country, he would have been as eminent in the field of
literature, as he is in that of politics. He writes with equal facility
and elegance in the French and English languages as in his own, and his
beautiful memoir of Ugo Foscolo, his essay upon Art in Italy, in his
review of Grossi's "Marco Visconti," and many other admirable
contributions to periodical literature, sufficiently prove that if the
peculiar aspect of the times in which he has lived had not impelled him
into public life, he would have found abundant resource in more retired
pursuits, for his own enjoyment, and the benefit of society.

CHEWING THE BUYO. A SKETCH OF THE PHILIPPINES.

With a population of 3,000,000--part of which has been for centuries the
colony of a European power--and producing many of the tropical products of
commerce, the Philippine Isles remain almost as much a _terra incognita_
as China or Japan!

These islands offer a striking illustration of the adage, that "knowledge
is power." They illustrate the power of civilized man to