_Que messieurs les assassins commencent!_ The anti-Irish legend is not dead nor even sleeping, nor are the resources of calumny yet exhausted.

An instance is immediately at hand.

I have, at this moment, on my desk a volume lately issued--"The School History of England." It is published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford; Mr Rudyard Kipling contributes twenty-three pieces of verse, and a Mr C.R.

L.
Fletcher, whose qualifications are not stated, appears to be responsible for the prose.

The book has been praised in most of the papers, and it will no doubt go far.