Rienzi.
1s. 6d. Railway Library. Large Edition, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d.
The early middle age of Italy rises before us; rude, yet struggling into light, and seeking escape into civilization by return to the classic past; the grand soul of the “Last Tribune” comes to recall again, for a momentary interval, the majesty of antique Rome, startling, as with the ghost of the classic giantess, the barbarian courts of the victor North. Rienzi himself is the master-spirit of the whole.