left behind him soon became "as wild and barbarous as the Irishmen themselves." Oxford, the home of so many other lost causes, apparently aspires to be also the home of the lost cause of mendacity.

The forcible-feeble malice of Mr Fletcher calls for no serious discussion; submit it to any continental scholar, to any honest British scholar, and he will ask contemptuously, though perhaps with a little stab of pain, how the name of Oxford comes to be associated with such wicked absurdities.

Every other reference to Ireland is marked by the same scientific composure and balanced judgment.

And this document, inspired by race hatred, and apparently designed to propagate race hatred, is offered to the youth of these countries as an aid towards the consolidation of the Empire.

It is a case not merely of the poisoning of a well, but of the poisoning of a great river at its source.