20 JULY 1907, page 20

Five Books On Ireland.*

THE first, and in some respects the weightiest, of these inter- esting books was written before Mr. Birrell's Irish Council Bill ran, like a startled hare, across the political......

Books.

AN AMERICAN CRITIC.* A FEW years ago there used to be much talk about the great American novel,—how it was coming to show England the way, and so forth. It has not come, at......