13 AUGUST 1892, Page 26

CURRENT LITERATURE.

Green as Grass. By F. M. Allen. (Chatto and Windus.)—This book is of a type which was more liked thirty years ago than it is now. Comic Histories of England, Comic Grammars, and the like, had a considerable success ; but they do not seem very amusing

now. Mr. Allen makes his fun about Dermot MacMurrogh, King of Leinster, Henry II. of England, Strongbow, and other per- sonages concerned in the conquest of Ireland, well enough ; but we must own that we found it rather dreary.