Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 1st April 1884, Edition 1 of 1, Page 340, flfr-" ' ¦ " »¦

Demy 8 vo . cloth , extra , price 16 s . fifty years OF CONCESSIONS TO IRELAND : BEING A SHOKT HISTOKY OF THE Remedial Measures passed by the British Parliament for Ireland BETWEEN THE YEARS 1831 AND 1881 . By JEl . BARBY OIBRIIEISr , Of the Middle Temple , Ban * ister-at-Law ; Author of ' The Parliamentary . History of the Irish Land Question , V ft * C . . . The Eev . MANDELL CREIGHTON , in the < Contemporary Review , ' February 1884 , says : — j ' i * * A really valuable contribution to modern political history has been mado by Mr . Barry O'Brien ' s " Fifty Years of Concessions to Ireland . " The work is conceived in a broad and temperate spirit , | \ which makes its effect all the more telling . The Author ' s plan i . ^ to examine in order all the points on I which England has made concessions to Ireland ; to investigate the previous history of the questions ; \ to consider the condition of affairs which led to legislative remedies ; and to trace the mode in which i these remedies were applied . The first volume deals in succession with the National Education Svstem , Parliamentary Reform , the Tithe Commutation Act , the Poor Law , and the Municipal-Reform Act . The principles which Mr . O'Brien lays down in his introduction are admirably true . Ho acknowledges the difficulty that must always stand in the way of agreement between conquerors and conquered , and pleads that the conquerors , when they have driven the conquered into a position of estrangement , must not complain if their efforts to amend do not at once meet with cordial co-operation . " The success of a conqueror-nation , " he justly says , " in pursuing a policy of conciliation and union , may , I think , be said to depend in a great measure on the period ( with reference to the date of conquest ) at which that policy was inaugurated , and the manner in which it has been carried out . " The object of this book is to enable the reader to judge whether or no the policy of concession has failed , " because England 1 ms never conceded in time , because she had never conceded adequately or graciously , because the enactments embodying the concessions have been allowed to remain a dead letter on the statute-book , or have been administered in a manner hostile to the spirit and intention of the law . " These are questions Mr . O'Brien worth ' s book asking will , have and amp are le questions reason for which thinking ought that to bo concessions answered . to Cortainl Ireland y have every never reader been 01 made graciously , and that we have no just reason for pluming ourselves on excessive generosity . Mr . O'Brien promises a second yolume , dealing in a similar spirit "with the Land Question . All readers of his first volume will assuredly be ready to read the second . ' London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , SEARLE , & RIVINGTON , , Grown Buildings , 186 Fleet Street , E . CL II

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