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Trentino (Ance with Germany and Austria)

THE ance with Germany and Austria, prevented her for this long period from supporting the ambitions of the Italians of the Trentino to become a part of the Italian nation.

TRENT, WILLIAM PETERFIELD, an American author; born in Richmond, Va., Nov. 10, 1862; was graduated at the TREPANNING The over the river. Trenton is an important industrial city and is noted for the wide variety and extent of its manufactures.

The industrial zone had in 1920 200 manufacturing plants with $120,000,000 invested and 40,000 employees. value of the finished product was nearly $ 175,000,000. The leading industries are machinery, structural steel and linoleum, automobiles, bedding and spring mattresses, bricks, candy, cigars, clothing, furniture, hosiery, silk and woolen yarns, steam turbines, watches, etc.

Trenton has a total area of 19 square miles. The University of Virginia in 1884; and in the manufacture of pottery, rubber, wire, 1888 became Professor of English and of History in the University of the South.

In July, 1900, he was appointed Professor of English Literature at Columbia University, New York city. He made a special study of southern men and times, and published: "Life of William Gilmore Simms"; "English Culture in Virginia": "Southern Statesmen of the Old Régime"; "Balzac's Comédie Humaine"; "John Milton"; "Authority of Criticism"; etc.

TRENT AFFAIR. In October, 1861, Capt. Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., intercepted at sea the British mail steamer "Trent," bound from Havana to St.

Thomas, and took off two Confederate commissioners, accredited to France, Messrs. Mason and Slidell, who were among her passengers. They were taken to Boston and imprisoned in Fort Warren, but were released on Jan. 1, 1862, on the demand of the British Government, and permitted to proceed to Europe. The affair created intense excitement at the time, but Secretary Seward accepted England's demand as an adoption of the American doctrine which denied the right ght of search, and on that ground replied that the prisoners would be cheerfully given up.