but she will cease to repeat the words of her enemies that her destiny is agricultural only. Her destiny is what she will make it by an organised and disciplined endeavour. Finally there is the question of the language. This does not truly lie within the scope of the book, but only because without it the book would not be possible. Firstly, because it was in the language of the Irish Nation that the Irish State was created; secondly, because it was only when the language was recovered as an intellectual possession and passion that the outlines of that State could be seen clearly, the memories of which at that time were struggling in the acts and deeds of a resurgent people. We have been tracing a historical continuity, but the key of that continuity is the language. The State of the future might be built on the foundations of the past, but the Nation inhabiting it would not be the same Nation if it spoke by the tongue of a foreigner; and then it is probable that the State would not fully answer its expectations, because the change of a nation’s speech implies a weakening of its surety of intuition. The recovery of the language in daily use is not a sentimentalism but a national necessity if the Nation is to act with the full certainty of its hereditary mind. It is also necessary to its dignity among the nations--which also is not merely an honourable emotion but actually an estimable quality in commerce. Ireland will utter her State aright when she utters her own speech aright, and when she does both other nations will look at her, think separately of her and deal directly with her. Her dignity will be a national beauty, and will aid her prosperity. For it is not when a Nation is crowned that its dignity is completed, but when it speaks; and not when it lisps with a stranger’s tongue but when it speaks with its own. * * * * * PADRAIC PEARSE COLLECTED WORKS =Vol. I--PLAYS, POEMS AND STORIES.= Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net. He was an out-and-out rebel ... a rebel who was a poet, a visionary who worked not for prosperity, or even for political freedom, but for an idea.--_Times Literary Supplement._ Probably no more selfless spirit ever broke itself against the might of the Iron Age than this man’s spirit, which was lit up by love of children and country, a dreamer with his heart in the Golden Age.--_The Irish Homestead._ The publication ... of the literary works of the leaders of the Irish Insurrection has helped us more than might have been expected to understand the motives and hopes which lay behind their action.--_Westminister Gazette._ =Vol. II--SONGS OF THE IRISH REBELS=, and Specimens from an Irish Anthology. Gaelic Poems collected and translated by PADRAIC PEARSE. Demy 8vo. 5s. net. =THE STORY OF A SUCCESS.= An account of St. Enda’s School by PADRAIC PEARSE, edited and completed by DESMOND RYAN. Illustrated. 3s. 6d. net. =THE NATIONAL BEING.= Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity. By Æ. Crown 8vo 5s. net.