20 SEPTEMBER 1919, page 20

The Economic History Of Ireland.*

Mn. GEORGE O'BRIEN'S new book on the economic history of seventeenth-century Ireland, though not free from bias, contains some interesting matter and disposes of certain ancient......

The Birds. * Ma. Sou= In His Prevent Volume Has Lost

none of that quiet, controlled distinction which was always his ; but he seems to have got rid of the rather hard, metallic note which was noticeable in some of his former work,......

Fiction.

THE OLD MADHOUSE'!" MODERN novel-readers are not all devotees of Mr. William De Morgan. One cannot easily imagine his exciting enthusiasm, for example, in the votaries of the......