very short 0111). The writer gives 1113 a vast amount
of miscellaneous
experiences of rural life, of its business, its amusements, its dark side, and its brighter aspects. Sometimes be touches on grave economical questions, as in "The Homestead ;" sometimes he is con- tent to stand beside a moor or a wood, and gossip about its inhabit- ants. Whatever he does, be is worth listening to. When we can spare a little time from Ireland for our own agricultural population, for the most part a quiet and patient multitude, that sutlers in silence much that few of us know anything about, the author of
Echoes from, the Counties should have something of practical value and importance to tell us. A genuine lover of the country, and one who has his heart with country folk, he may be read both with enter- tainment and with prat.
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