Leinster, East and West ; Connaught. Edited by George Fletcher.
(Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d. and Cs. 6d. net respectively.)—These well written and well illustrated hand- books, the work of five Dublin scholars, are identical in treatment with the volumes on Ulster and Munster which we commended some months ago. They contain much information and they avoid politics. The chapters on antiquities by MA E. C. K..
Armstrong deserve srecial mention. The English reader • will notice, in the Connaught volume, the lengthy account of the measures taken to imrrove the lot of the small Irish peasant and the Irish labourer. He will not find a single word to suggest that these very costly reforms were made by the hated British Government and at the expense of the British tax- payer. There is, of course, no gratitude in politics, and especially in Irish politics, but the regeneration of Western Ireland, at enormous expense, is none the less a fact for which Great Britain deserves credit.
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