The sources of our knowledge respecting the moral, social, and political state of Ireland are numerous and ample; I shall confine myself, as much as I can, to those which relate to what may be called her recent revolutionary period, though Irish history in the past, even in the distant past, is anything but an 'old almanack.' This mass of evidence faithfully represents the disturbances and the troubles that have prevailed in Ireland, with intervals of time between, during the last twenty years and upwards, and the fierce animosities and conflicts which have been the consequence. Here a reader should again consult Hansard, notably the debates on Ireland, during the agitated period from 1880 to 1889; of course he should only study the great speeches. The publications on this subject are very many, and some of real importance; as regards the policy and conduct of the Land, and even of the National Leagues, and the frightful outbreak of disorder and crime which was the result, nothing is equal in value to the Report of the Judges of the 'Special Commission,' and to the immense body of evidence brought before them; 'The Verdict,' by Professor Dicey, sums up well the conclusions at which they arrived. The utterances of the so-called Irish 'Nationalist' Press, throughout these years, fully verify the facts disclosed in the Report, and its findings; they have, indeed, been continued in a less ferocious and violent, but in a significant, strain ever since; a collection of them will be found in the volumes published by the Irish Unionist Alliance. On this subject, and also on the state of opinion existing among a large majority, probably, of the Irish people, see 'The Continuity of the Irish Revolutionary Movement,' by Professor Brougham Leech; 'The Truth about the Land League,' by Mr. Arnold Foster, M.P.; 'Parnellism and Crime,' republished from the _Times_; 'Incipient Irish Revolution,' anonymous but able; some valuable articles on Ireland by the late Lord Grey that appeared in the _Nineteenth Century_; 'Disturbed Ireland,' by Mr. T. W. Russell, M.P.; 'The Plan of Campaign Illustrated;' and 'About Ireland,' by Mrs. E. Lynn Lynton. The recent revolutionary and agrarian movements in Ireland have not found many to vindicate them, or even fully to explain their causes; but reference may be made to 'The Parnell Movement,' by T. P. O'Connor, M.P.; to the 'New Ireland' of Mr. A. M. Sullivan; to Mr. Barry O'Brien's 'Irish Wrongs and English Remedies;' and to a series of articles called 'Ungrateful Ireland,' in the _Nineteenth Century_, from the pen of Sir G. Duffy. A host of papers in quarterly, monthly, and other reviews and magazines on the political and social condition of Ireland of late years has, also, been published from time to time. Attempts have been made, quite recently, to show that the troubles of Ireland have become things of the past, and that she is a prosperous and happy land; but though real improvement has