12 JUNE 1886, page 21

Half A Century Of Irish History.*

" I Au quite convinced," said Sheridan, nearly a hundred years ago, in the English Parliament, "that the misery of that im- portant class [the Irish peasantry] has had its......

"vengeance Is Mine."

SOME years have elapsed since we had a novel by Miss Pollard before us ; but the quality of those stories which preceded the present by so wide an interval abides in our......