AN IRISH ISHMAELITE

In one of his recent works G. K. Chesterton compared the administration of national affairs to the writing of a love-letter; both should be left to the parties interested, however valuable may be the advice an outsider thinks he can tender. Some such thought must suggest itself to the Irishman perusing "Paraguay on the Shannon," a recent work of Frank Hugh O'Donnell. Flouted by the Nationalist Party of Ireland, rebuffed by the Gaelic League, he sets to work to indite an exposé of the obstinate self-deception of all Irishmen except himself and "Pat" (nom-de-plume of Mr. P. Kenny).