... we turn to its treatment of Irish politicians and Irish affairs we are in quite a different world. I have not found that Irishmen, of whatever political party they may chance to belong, like their country to be made to appear ridiculous. In two of Mr ...

... Gwynn, who in a postscript to his novel, Robert Emmet, tells us of h's authorities. I have a com plete set of Madden's United Irishmen, I have Dr. Emmet's The Emmet Family, privately printed- in New York in 1898 a book that Mr. Gwynn admits that he had ...

... the most learned of all living Irishmen, but not one of them could tell me at once where Columbia University is. A reference to Longman's Gazetteer of the World reveals the fact that there are twenty Columbias in the United States, that there is a Columbia ...

... we have had books from Mr. William Heinemann, Mr. John Lane, Mr. Methuen, and Mr. Stoughton of Hodder and Stoughton. In the United States we know Mr. George Haven Putnam as a gifted authorand Colonel Harvey of Harper and Brothers. Colonel Harvey has just ...

... America, and other parts of the ft world. In this connection he makes the startling ft statement that England, and not the United States, ft guarantees the independence of American nations ft and in the preservation of the British Empire rather ft than ...

... Smith, and George Cohan. It may perhaps indicate the gulf which separates the literary interests of England from those of the United States that most of us here are entirely ignorant of the names of Harry B. Smith and George Cohan. Pinero we know, and Brieux ...

... woman novelist. It might have been written by any one of the hundred women novelists who flourish in this country or in the United States. It is just a read able story written in somewhat slovenly English, no better and no worse than the thousand six-shilling ...

... Australia, at the time when Fenianism came to the front, and the term is an utter misnomer. He was tried for his share in the United Irishmen Movement in 1848 but his sentence was quashed. He sat in the House of Commons for some years, and sailed for Australia ...

... wn is welcome. Come time ago, when I heard that Mr. Joseph Pennell was going back to his own country, I congratulated the United States in these columns upon the fact that so irascible a man of genius would find a congenial environment at last. Mr. Pennell ...

... reason to be proud of its literary criticism to-day, although a fine intuition for good poetry is to be found in two young Irishmen in the London press, Mr. Robert Lynd and Mr. James Douglas, and an admirable critic of prose is Mr. Clutton Brock of The ...

... in each shift. This one branch turns out 3,700 complete cars per day. I am told that 68 per cent, of the motor cars of the United States are made in Detroit. It was Mr. E. R. Hatton, the circulation manager of The Detroit Free Press, who took me in his ...