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Free State or Republic ? By Padraig do Burea and

John F. Boyle (Dublin : Talbot Press ; and T. Fisher Unwin. 2s. Cd. net).—This amusing little book contains the /rig independent's descriptive reports of the long debates in Dail Eireann, in December and January last, on the " Treaty." The journalists were evidently bored to death by the garrulity of the speakers, but they contrived none the less to produce a readable and entertaining account of the session. At the end they give the complete division list, showing that Leinster and Ulster were mainly in favour of the "Treaty," while Connaught was evenly divided and Munster was very hostile. The minority in the Dail are now trying, in the old Irish way, to suppress the majority by revolvers instead of votes.