New-York tribune., 1907-09-07

' Il extends 10 seven hundred large
-. r-trted pages-pages, in fact, that
,.,e+ TOO closely printed for easy reading
--s7-,ii1ary amount Of york has gone u
-oa,rrior. Research alone must have eaten
ears although much Of II has been ~
z-r rather than first hand sources. In
-ar,,so,, The work Is Jar above such books
r-sla,id as Finerty's history and other PoPu-
sts-ori4S by Irishn.en that are to be found
- hook stores Of Dublin and Glasgow II IS
,s--e- written than most cf these But =
- Of the characteristics Of ther--7lost
- ,r,a-s -te~istlCs that seriously impair their
,,eu5 usefulness. and lend 10 narro" their
--.enoe 70 an almost exclusively Irish con
-. The author Is Of the old faith, bu-
= fff-lc or tHa breadth and charity that
L~sc+erize Amherst's History Of tathoilc
--n,soeipatIor and. although not Home
r,lsr hts standpoint throughout is anti-Eng-
a., md as markedly auti-Protestant- He does
:. ,orde,l1n cromwell, and he does conce1e
"a, nineteenth century ireland owes something
:. nrlmmond. and 20 Gladstone and Bright.
-,--a,-7o~5 he praises for the changes he n1ade
:. Dpslin castle when he Was Under-Secretai9
.-, 1875 10 $40. Bright * commended 1or
,5s understanding of agraTian and econo-'lle
,o75-tiors IN Ireland, and for his long ard per
t3v-en- endeazors toward the reform Of the faT2o
1sxs and there x an Ungrudging tribute In
Gladstone fc- the holiness and the Farliar1-T-
-s-v skiH 7Ith which. in 1865, he grappied T-iih
~ r-otlerls that surrounded the disestablish-
-rsr- of The English Church IL ireland win
.h.se srd three or four other eNceptions--0i
~ Who did not stand out in nineteenth cen
- British history IS prominently as HT Gin-
--o,s Bright and GIadstone-there is little bu-
ensure fs- English Statesmen who from he
ZINE ~ The revolution q 16Ss were associated
with the government Of ireland
FRI Ff-f and Peel NTr. Lannsnu has unnlIsi5-4'-
snfv q dislike that amounts 90 detestatlon. ana
s--a-7tiorallv or lrirtenti ionai-y nc leaves ih'
.-rr-ess5o0 that few EnEIishrer VINO raw
sought 70 g-aprIe with I-eiand's never ending
problems have approached their thanhiesS ia7N
with any sincerity or honesty oi purpose lile.E
Is : fone Of hostility toward NoHeoniorh's''S 81"
7-rpis7d which is comparatively new ia these
historical studies II ireland written Icy lrishlei-
open hostility to English Free Churchmen dates
little further hack than the present day contro-
ze-sy in England over the control and manage
rem Of The elementary schools shat are main
.zine5 a The expense of the state and the
Municipalities. and this hostility Is d.
,,nctiv new note in Irish history. But it Is wei
marked in NTr Laureon'S pages he WIZ not
admit that the English Noncenfornists had any
srrar,aths- with the movement which Culni1ated
81 tie Catholic Emancipation Act of l>24, and
when he cores 10 treat of the d0posif'on "-
Parcel after his appearance in the Divorce
Court in 1890 his bitterness against the Noncor-
fornist conscience becomes extreme.
Soon certain proceedings il tlc. Divorce Court
Orslea Eho had negotiated the bilnaiahaln treatE.
brought about thI tEsI ecIse o. 5is. % mat a.
fa5 -earei is forehead Of brass without quicker
r~rI or
riots Of sg~a-jan leagues: that had sriliik from
.ster designs and brutal ouJTages of Irish eonspra-
fors this wonderfully delicate ai2d sesl--.e -E9
from The sin Of adultery. 50 foreign 70 irs nature
fharsalcal Rodiiness- cursed me lost ana uilaSt
ig1arls sanncT- This holy horror ~i.s TOO n4Cs
for thN rulers Of Ireland This iacoTn3aracle
h-po,.rizv- that loathed adultery but vinhed at
u5Ur5er- tlsst Stunned The lraiJy OF ~ 5slaEfti
5on against the hirelings Of Cverv other sort q
rrine: This was too much even for the r'liers -
Ireland. and the worshipful conscience OF ne IN
stained Nonconfornist rapidly became, ana has
fezHa med, z proYeTo
NJ. Lanpson is as much addicted TO assail-
tng Englishr1eu in mass as hs is 10 assailing
Individual Englishmen. when they happen to be
statesmen or politicians. Here is his charac-
teTization Of the House Of Commons al West
minister in IS46-fourteen years after the first
Reform Act, and when commercial and middle
class England had more TO DO with the election
Of the House OF Commons. and was better rep
resented among It's members, than al any pre-
FioSS time in its history:
The rulers OF Ireland we're like the deaf ADDER
that stoppeth her ears, for are 80 deaf rs
ih0se thst are stuffed with preJQdlce and SelI-H-
's-es. The larnzntable tale Of Irish woe told 10
tie House o@ Commons bv PouIett Scrope during
he oebate the Crimes bill. and which even now
listened % by the hardy ParlianentaTiars OF JN45
without the rUffng Of sentiment II vEas - diff
vas conSosea COL Of The sefsae ingredicnjs - one Of
IeH.selves: that the prosperity Of The or was is
we're hewn from the same block, and that the Al
mighty would never distinguish between them, IN
less indeed he took Lazarus his bosom and left
Dives 10 burn. Il was so hard matter to make
corr @ s saI-a oTSnTdsnd fb@se eternal truths
Hunting four days week, blowing his pheasantS
O. the seventh it was Impossible to make him
sEsTe that, IN spite Of his possible good fellowship
and coarse good nature, he was prohtess lump
q clay, that lis life was radically uIsound ana
Eorlniess Tor al purposes of soc.I - liz liz
rsrsaIi0n and that he living in obstinate san
80 long Is one IrisFunan starved while he reveled
One personal sketch VIII serve as an example
q Mr. Lampson's portrait gallery Of English
men who have had the misfortune TO have had
any political connection with Ireland OF
George " he writes:
During the course CT the sarne year-is19-Ireiand
vas visited by the royal vouptuary who was seated
= sas tnrone On parting from her $40 shores the
Tee-s t-icEled DOWN the cheeks that were furrowed
y debsch: sighs. those gentle interpreters OF
2e Eo1. from the breast that UP til then had
sinoiec with no passion gave that Of iust. What
vas -he eecret of tdis grand emotio1g What
NzzrGs spell had tapped the foundations OF TINS
sske sorroygy Fad the faces that stared Il nm
ron Irish hedgeroRs, pinched with want ana gTiIl-
Lng with hunger, had the tndeliole mark OF ua-
tonsl prostrat3On. notwithstanding the cnorts o.
kcPenent 70 conceal them from his view, pierced
re scared conscience and melted the heart OF the
worthless 6eDauchee2 We think not 40, George
" was 100 well bred for any breach Of Eclshed
sroagocy. He mad merely toasted wel IA IIelSi21-
ne carefully prepared caronse hsa LaoanteI ,s -
he esg-efI
.sd heightened the consciousness OF u1earned con
lentnsnt and the overcha-ged pleasures or tne
ttnses had found IN easy vent through The ready
seoes OF the eye
The world nov knows from Creevy's vivid and