15 NOVEMBER 1919, Page 23

Dunluce Castle and the Route. By H. C. Lawlor. (Belfast

: M'Caw, Stevenson, and Orr. ls.)—The ruins of Dunluce Castle, midway between Portruah and the Giant's Causeway, are familiar to many tourists. Mr. Lawlor's readable and well-illustrated para,let relates the history of the castle, and contains also an architectural description by the late Mr. W. H. Lynn. It may be noted that Dunluce, like many other imposing old castles on precipitous rocks, was no more impregnable than the Hindenburg Line, but changed hands repeatedly without offering any serious resistance. The strength of a castle, as of a modern entrenchment, lay in the courage of its defenders, and it was rare in the Middle Ages for the garrison of any castle, however well fortified, to stand a long siege.