""An Austrian Diplomatist in the Fifties: The Rede Lecture"" is a historical book written by Ernest Mason Satow, a British diplomat and scholar. The book is based on a lecture Satow gave in 1908, which he delivered as part of the prestigious Rede Lecture series at the University of Cambridge. The book provides a first-hand account of Satow's experiences as a young diplomat in Austria during the 1850s. Satow describes the political and social climate...