18 AUGUST 1888, Page 16

MTSS BIRD ON IRELAND.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " $PECTATOR:1 SIR,—To your flattering allusion to my papers on Ireland in Murray's Magazine, in the Spectator of August 11th, you. add the words, "herself a Home-ruler." Allow me to explain that I went to Ireland as a strictly neutral observer, and that I have returned in the same mental attitude ; also to emphasise my testimony to the painstaking impartiality of the six Irish Magistrates in whose Courts I spent as many days.—I am., Sir, Bre., ISABELLA L. BIRD.. Tobermory, Argyllshire, August 14th.