6 JULY 1907, Page 25

A FORGOTTEN SIDE OF IRISH CHARACTER.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I point out that the election address from some unnamed place in Ireland to which you devote two columns of your last issue is just about as truly typical as Mr. Hunnable's candidature at Jarrow and just about as worthy of serious notice ? Men have different notions of a joke ; there is the humour of Mr. Hunnable, the humour of this nameless candidate, and the humour of the Spectator. And I think I can answer for it that if any voted for the author of this address, they did so in obedience to their own sense of

humour.—I am, Sir, &c., STEPHEN GWYNN. Swale Club, 107 Piccadilly, W.