A Little Tour in Ireland. By " An Oxonian" (S. Reynolds
Hole). Illustrated by John Leech. (E. Arnold.)—When Dean Hole was an undergraduate—we suppose, about fifty years ago—he made a tour in Ireland, and John Leech, who was an nqualis (having been born in 1817), went with him. By collaboration of pen and pencil, this book was produced; after many years of the " out-of- print " condition, it has now been republished. The public is much obliged to the author for consenting to this republication. Everybody knows that the Dean A Rochester can say witty things, and it is no surprise to find that the undergraduate was, so to speak, father of the Dean. And there is wisdom as well as wit. The young man had evidently a gift of shrewd observation, and, what was not less valuable for his purpose, a power of sympathy. Much may be found in these pages that is as true to-day as it was when it was written. I traveller now would hardly find the gaiety which the young visitors found in the " forties " of this century; but there are other things in which there is little change. Leech's illustrations, which it would be impertinence to praise, number between thirty and forty.
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