We welcome a new and revised edition of An Irish
Cousin, by E. (E. Somerville and Martin Ross (Longmans and Co., 6s.), originally published in two volumes by Messrs. Bentley in 1889. It was the good fortune of the present writer to review this brilliant and witty tragi-comedy when it first appeared, and he may be pardoned for reproducing the words in which he hailed the advent of the two writers who have since contributed so liberally to the gaiety of the English-speaking public:—" If any one wishes to get a true picture of the realities and amenities of Irish country life, he cannot do better than seek instruction from this admirable novel For a first venture, this novel is a remarkable achievement. It is redolent of the soil and yet abso- lutely unpolitical." We have only to add that we have re-read the novel with undiminished pleasure
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