7 JUNE 1890, Page 24

Striking Events in Irish History. By C. F. Dowsett. (Kogan

Paul and Co.)—This is a decidedly misleading title. Scarcely a quarter of the book is devoted to history, and that of a rambling and wholly inconsequential nature ; the rest is taken up with the opinions of the author and extracts from other writers on the politics of the day.