... Charles Gavan Duffy has described Modern Ireland as a book for statesmen. Dr Sigerson has now written the history of Grattan's Parliament and of the Union as it has, never been written be- fore. People whlo have been: talking, and even writing, glibly ...

... within the dominion of the Queen. He knows what that is worth when the Crown has lost its political power. In the days of Grattan's Parliament the Crown had not lost its political power. Professor Goldwin Smith very truly reminds his readers, It still ...