WESTERN THUGS. By Digby Hussey de Burgh. (Dram's. 6s. net.)
SOUND sense and personal prejudice are strangely mixed
in Mr. de Burgh's racy little book about Ireland, its history, its politics, its finance and its agricultural policy. The author certainly rushes in where most writers tread delicately, and expresses his dislike of Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Hilaire Belloc, whom he extravagantly calls " the leading Dago bellwether in the British Empire," the Chtirch of Rome and the Jews in a way that is refreshing in an age that ignores the uses of invective. He suggests a great many unlikely remedies for getting rid of the Secret Societies, which in his opinion are at the root of most contemporary troubles, and there is a spirited account of his conflict with " seven men armed with rifles and shot guns," who came to murder him in his Limerick home last autumn.
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