I take, not casual and partisan journalism, but a passage from a book published by a distinguished Irish writer who had never publicly attached himself to any party.

Mr.James Stephens was in Dublin during the insurrection; he wrote a book about his own personal observation of it, which as a record of observation is admirable.

But when Mr.Stephens comes to emit opinions, here is what he has to say: "Why it happened is a question that may be answered more particularly.
It happened because the leader of the Irish party misrepresented his people in the English House of Parliament.

On the day of the declaration of war between England and Germany he took the Irish case, weighty with eight centuries of history and tradition, and he threw it out of the window.

He pledged Ireland to a particular course of action, and he had no authority to give this pledge and he had no guarantee that it would be met.