E-text prepared by Henry Flower, Odessa Paige Turner, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project (http://books.google.com) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 39540-h.htm or 39540-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39540/pg39540-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39540/39540-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through the the Google Books Library Project. See http://books.google.com/books?vid=Qo4MAAAAYAAJ&id Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848-9. Es reden und träumen die Menschen viel Von bessern künftigen Tagen: Nach einem glücklichen, goldenen Ziel Sieht man sie rennen und jagen. Die Welt wird alt, und wird wieder jung; Doch der Mensch hofft immer Verbesserung. * * * * * Es ist kein leerer schmeichelnder Wahn, Erzeugt im Gehirne des Thoren. Im Herzen kündet es laut sich an: Zu was Besserm sind wir geboren; Und was die innere Stimme spricht, Das täuscht die hoffende Seele nicht. SCHILLER. [Illustration: _Giuseppe Mazzini._] THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT OF 1848-9 IN ITALY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, AND GERMANY. With Some Examination of the Previous Thirty-three Years. by C. EDMUND MAURICE, Author of "The Lives of English Popular Leaders in the Middle Ages." With an Engraved Frontispiece and Other Illustrations. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons London: George Bell and Sons 1887. [The right of translation is reserved.] Chiswick Press:--C. Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. PREFACE.