Tim Doolan, the Irish Emigrant. By the Author of "Mick
Tracy" (Partridge.)—This is a tale written in the interests of the movement for Protestantizing the Irish population. Readers will now know what they may expect. We cannot say more for it than it is not more objectionable, in worse taste, or more unfair than other books of the class ; we do not mean to say that the writer could not produce authority for all his state- ments. It is beyond all doubt that violence and intimidation are used ; that priests denounce converts from the altar; that they sometimes even prophesy disasters for them in a way that is not unlikely to ensure the fulfilment of their prediction. This does not prove to our mind that books of this kind are profitable, or even that in the broadest sense of the word, they are truthful. It is only fair to say that, in Tim Doolan there is some real humour and fun, much, in fact, that a reader may enjoy without reference to any matter of controversy. The whole picture of the life on board the emigrant ship strikes us as being drawn with spirit and truth.
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