An Account of The Inquisition at Goa, in India

Sometimes a murder story lingers for years after the event. This one has lingered for more than a century, especially in New England. The setting is winter, 1873 on a small, obscure island 10 miles off the coast of Maine.

This book, a somewhat abridged English translation of A. Rossi’s Physiologic dzr Parti Covmmiste Franyais,l goes to the printer’s at a moment when the prevailing mood in the United States is one of ebullient optimism concerning the problems to which its conclusions are relevant.