Though Italy has done much during the last thirty years, much remains to be done.

Illiteracy, though diminishing, is still widely prevalent.

Recent statistics show that forty per cent of the recruits in the army are illiterate.

In 1882 the suffrage was greatly extended.

Hitherto limited to those who were twenty-five years of age or over and paid about eight dollars a year in direct taxes, it was now thrown open to all over Extension twenty-one years of age and the tax qualification was re- of the duced by half; also all men of twenty-one who had had su ragc a primary education were given the vote.