A Description and History of Powerscourt. By Viscount Powerseourt, K.P.
(Mitchell and Hughes.)—Lord Powerscourt briefly relates the history of his family, so far as it is concerned with its Irish seat,—Powerscourt, in the county of Wexford. The estate was granted to Sir Richard Wingfield in 1609. He was also created a Viscount. The title lapsed at his death, was revived in 1665, and again becoming extinct, was again revived in the person of Richard Wingfield in 1743. From him the present Viscount is descended. The modern house, in which part of the old castle was probably incorporated, was built in the eighteenth century. Lord Powerscourt, who has a proper sense of the duty imposed by such possessions, gives in this volume a very full account of the place and its contents, this account being supplemented by a number of handsome illustrations. There is an interes appendix in which a magnificent stag's head is described and pictured. It is indeed marvellous, shows forty-three points, and weighs 741b. ; but then no stag ever carried it. The art of making heads of this kind is carried on with remarkable skill in Germany.
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