Glimpses of England Author:Moses Coit Tyler Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MAZZINI A FEW days ago there appeared in a Paris newspaper the following somewhat sensational paragraph: " Joseph Mazzini is at this moment ill in an humbl... more »e dwelling in Brompton Road. The man who for so long was the incarnation of Italian unity expires in the fogs of the north, and in a climate which kills him. Now that the old conspirator no longer is in a position to terrify anyone, why does not the King of Italy allow him to breathe his last on his native soil ?" On authority which is simply perfect I am able to state that the case is not quite so bad as this writer puts it. Let not the melodramatic reference to the " humble dwelling in Brompton Road" lead anyone to suppose that in Mazzini's situation and circumstances there is anything of destitution. The house in which he lodges is not a palace, but it is a good, respectable dwelling, such as most literary men and artists occupy; and Brompton itself is one of the pleasantest parts of London, peculiarly genial for persons of weak lungs, and for many generations a favorite place of residence for intellectual people. In that neighborhood in olden time lived Sir Thomas More and Sir Isaac Newton; and in recent date, Turner, Thomas Carlyle, Thackeray, Sothern, Boucicault, the sculptor Baron Marochetti, and many other persons of note. I believe Mazzini has no private fortune; but among the intellectual aristocracy of every land he has the most devoted friends, who are proud to enable this tireless man to pursue his wonderful career. He lives with a dignified and philosophic simplicity, reminding one of Beranger. With "regard to Mazzini's health, his nearest friends here have, during the past few weeks, felt great anxiety. It is true he is only fifty-six years of age; but few men of any epoch have gone through so much labor,...« less