There is a great deal that is green about Dublin, and the remark is not intended as a joke. There are several fine parks and breathing-places scattered about the city. Many of the residences have large back yards filled with trees and flowers that are hidden from the public by the high walls that guard them from the street, but one can see them from the tops of the tram cars as he rides about. The suburbs of the city are very attractive, with plenty of large trees and vine-clad walls and pretty gardens, and here and there a tennis court. As you look down upon the city from a tall tower there is almost as much foliage as in Washington. Phoenix Park is famous, and one of the largest public playgrounds in the world. St. Stephen's Green is a rectangular inclosure, twenty-two acres in extent and corresponding to four city blocks, in the fashionable quarter, and is surrounded by the mansions of the nobility and the homes of the rich. Lord Iveagh, the representative of the Guinness Brewery family, has a residence on one of the sides, and the archbishop's palace is on the other side, near the Shelbourne Hotel, which is the best in the city, and several clubs. St. Stephen's is handsomely laid out, and has what I have never seen before in a city square,--a bridle-path nearly a mile long around the interior of the fence, where several gentlemen take their exercise on horseback in the morning. Sir Walter Scott was entertained in what he writes was "a very large and stately house in Stephen's Green, which I am told is the most extensive square in Europe," and, writing to his wife, he said, "The streets contain a number of public buildings of the finest architecture I have seen anywhere in Britain."