The Republican journal., 1882-01-26

IRELAND Or TO bAr The Causes and Aims Of
Irish Agitation. By n Sullivan With an in
PRODUCTION BY Thomas Power Ouonuor NJ P The
publishers Of Ibis boook ~ McCurdy j No phiJa
delphial say IN note ID The editor: That the
Irish cause has been msjudgsd is row coucedtt
by many who have until lately entertained h0stI
opinions and thar their troubles deserve a candle
Investigation, We believe every American citiztr
viii admit The aim of This book is to throw new
light on tins great question, and with this end in
view We commend it 70 our consideration Ger
talnly 70 exception can be taken 70 these state
ments. ltls not the fault Of our people however
that the Irish cause has been misindged and sy N
pathy withheld that has been So freely extendet
TO the oppressed esev here 1t is due to the in
cendtary language of the Irish newspaper organs
in this country rhe indiscreet utterances Of the
professional agitators both here and in Ireland
and the collecting Of the hard earnings of servant
girls 70 be spent in foolish and ftile raids lntt
Canada or eQuandered By idle adventures These
things have closed the ears Of mauv Intelligent
Americans TO the story Of lrelends wronss-for
that the Irish people have substantial grievances
all must concede And they are forciblY present
IN this book III Sullivan, ii We mistake not, is
the editor of the Dublin Freeman and Journalist
OF marked ability. The scope OF tine work is indl
Gated IN the following enumeration Of the subjects
treated Ireland prior TO the land war How the
people lost their land The reason Ireland has No
manufactures How q lettefed people were reduc-
ed TO illlteracy How the people lost their Parlia,
ment. Peculiar features uf Irish andlordism.
How the landlords soWed the seeds of tie Land
League The men who gathered the crops A
landlords agent gets into the dIcti0nary-the
origin and success OF Boycoting. Crime ana co
ercion The irish tenant Of to-day. The peasant
farmer II other European untres. This is un
qurstionaby the best presentation of the Irish
cause yct offered to the American people ard as
the question is one likely tO engrnss public atten
ton tor SEINE time to come The book should have
large sale 1t is embelushed with numerous full
Pasv illustrations lnc!ndius portraits of the Irish
agltators Of the past and present and printed from
clear. bold type
The NoRrH AMERICAN REVIEW In the Feb
ruaTy number u Ills well known Review Prot.
Geo Fisher Of the Yale DIVINITY School, whose
writings on the supernatural origin Of Christianity
aud on eccl sdst1cal history are well known,
comes 10 the defence OF the Christian Religion
against the attacks OF modern doa b. aud tidehty
No abler or more eminent advocate for the ortho-
do4 fali b could be summoned INTO the controversy
that has lately been wHged on this high theme
and It ls not too much 70 say that Prof Fisher
suhes every expectation by the vgur and cle al
claims however. the position Of Gebater ard
makes no direct refereLGe 10 Col lrgtrsulis as
saults although he necessarily deals with the
objections SO brilliantly and audacously present
cd by that doughty cumbatant He proceeds In a
very orderly manner 10 MAINTAIN series of posi-
lons IN regard to the original essential character
and beut hcent effects Of The Christian faith which
are intended i'll themselves to furnish the answer
to all ohJecilons and caylls
Other articles III the E. bruary number of the
n y-Y,,,r 10 No n J..
tor z BY President Andrew D Whlte "A REM d,
for Railway Abuses, b, isaac l. Rice 'pud-
alton in Virginia, by Senator John W Johnston ;
and The Lancet and the Law" BY Henry rgh
PETERsoNs MAGAZINE The February number
of this excellent ladies monthly is ont and more
attractive than usual The principal steel plate
Fast Caught is charming and illustrates spark
ling story Ihe colored pattern, in kensington
stitch Design for Pansi.s is one OF those costly
things found only in Peterson. The continued
stories BY Mrs Stephens and Mrs Austin increase in
Interest, and The short stories are particularly coed
The illustrations for fashions, patterns etc num-
Der nearly hiy 1t Is a wonder how such maya
n can be published for two dollars year Chas
j Peterson, publisher, Philadelphia
LIrTELLs LIVING AGE The number of the
LIVING Age tor the week endil January l4lh
contains he following notable articles Carly les
Ethics, CorDhili Magazine Two Studies III Dante
Contemporary R yi'w English Satire in the Nine
teenth Century. Ffasers Magazine; Kioto Fort
uiRutiy hrNieW FAIRIES SATURDAY keVleUs; 10
gether with the conclusion of Mademolselle An
grle and I he usual amount Of choice poetry This
is the s. cond number Of the new volume New
subscribers can b~gin with this volume, Littell a.
Co publishers, Boston
NOTES
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett is only thirty
two years old
The next Round Robin novel will be Madame
Lucas" a tale Of ST Louis life
Air. ? Foster, class OF 81 Bates College. who
was very tavorahly mentioned in connection with
several poems in Srribners last year, is author of
"A Listener by the Sea, IN the January number of
the Century Magazine
Mr. Donald 6 Mitchell is sixty years old and
continues to reside near New Haven His novel
DIR Johns was never so popular as it deserved
to be; the sentiments Of his Bachelor Day Rev
cries are still read but his best book, My Farm
of Edgewood' is likely to exist longer than the
others
The American, Philadelphia's literary and po
ltical weekly proposes to print series of sketch
es of American authors, including large number
of the writers of the Middle States which deserve
perhaps more attention than they have received in
New York and Boston