1 OCTOBER 1910, Page 54

Talcs from Irish History. By Alice Birkhead, B.A. (Methuen a.y.d

Co. is. 6d.)—This book is written with much force and fresh- ness. The subject is less known than it should be, and Miss Birkhead has done well in bringing it forward in this attractive volume. Sho would have done better if she could have contrived to be more impartial. She gives, for instance, several pages to the story of how the Union was brought about. Bat she does not even mention the Irish Parliament of 1689. This was a really representative Irish Assembly; the Parliament of 1800 was returned by the Protestant minority.