.make of it. If . we were to keep it
at hand for, say,. flue years, dipping into it from time to time, it might be possible to give a fair opinion. We certainly found the first part more amusing than the last. Was this because the writer had put his best things first, or because the power of tasting. had been worn out ? Here are nearly five hundred pages, with several "good things" on each : however admirable they may be, satiety is inevitable. The first chapter is "Bench and Bari" and there is no place where an Irishman is seen to better advantage, whether as prisoner, advocate, witness, or Judge. There are good stories of all, but the one which we shall quote is not funny at all, though it is admirably pointed. "The Irish difiloulty is of .a stupid and honest people trying to govern a quick-witted and dishonest one." That ought to please both sides.
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