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The Radical Cure for Ireland. (Blackwood and Sons.)—We have not

given any author's name, as the " cure " purports to be " com- municated through a living friend by Chichester's Ghost." Sir G. Chichester, Lord Deputy for Ireland in the time of James I., it should be remembered, is " thorough." " All that is necessary is to secure Protestant control of a majority of Irish constituencies, local and imperial." Get rid of about a million and a quarter of Roman Catholics. Make new " plantations " in Leinster and Munster, and the work is done. It is not necessary to have a. majority of Protestants. When there are 15 per cent., it suffices to keep the enemy in order. Surely so old a ghost ought to have better ideas than these.