To the useful series of "Helps for Students of History"
the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge has just added A Short Guide to the Public Record Office, Dublin, by the Rev. IL H. Murray, and The Care of Documents, by Mr. C. Johnson (8d. each). Dr. Murray, one of the few dispassionate students of Irish history, has done for the Irish Record Office what that Department ought to have done for itself in describing clearly though briefly the principal contents of the Dublin archives. It is one of the paradoxes of the Irish character that, though Irishmen revel in memories of a mythical golden age, they have never displayed much interest in the real history of Ireland. Apart from Lecky and Bagwell, few Irish historians have attempted to overcome the political or religious bias which has made most Irish books about Ireland worthless and misleading.
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