Blue-books and statistical works lay about in all directions, and on the table were the March numbers of the _Nineteenth Century_, and the _Contemporary Review_.
"You are abreast of the times, I see," I said to him, pointing to these periodicals.
"Yes," he replied, "they have just come in; and there is a capital paper by Mr.John Morley in this _Nineteenth Century_." Nothing could be livelier than Dr.Dillon's interest in all that is going on on both sides of the Atlantic, more positive than his opinions, or more terse and clear than his way of putting them.

He agreed entirely with Father O'Neill as to the pressure put upon the Coolgreany tenants, not so much by Mr.Brooke as by the agent, Captain Hamilton; but he thought Mr.Brooke also to blame for his treatment of them.
"Two of the most respectable of them," said Dr.Dillon, "went to see Mr.
Brooke in Dublin, and he wouldn't listen to them.

On the contrary, he absolutely put them out of his office without hearing a word they had to say."[22] I found Dr.Dillon a strong disciple of Mr.Henry George, and a firm believer in the doctrine of the "nationalisation of the land." "It is certain to come," he said, "as certain to come in Great Britain as in Ireland, and the sooner the better.

The movement about the sewerage rates in London," he added, "is the first symptom of the land war in London.

It is the thin edge of the wedge to break down landlordism in the British metropolis." He is watching American politics, too, very closely, and inclines to sympathise with President Cleveland.