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 Bruce : The Fortvard Policy and its Results 569 through the principal towns on much attention, especially in the their route, especially O'Con- smaller towns. We learn from nell, who in his large cloak — a contemporary account that survival to all appearance of the O'Connell mainly arrested the ancient Irish mantle — formed a public gaze. He sat on the box conspicuous object on the box of of a landau with a large cloak — the landau." seemingly a revival of the ancient Irish mantle — folded around him." We need not delay on the question whether the popularizer owes anything to those whom he despoils. Here the object is rather to show that the author has not done the kind and quantity of additional work that we are justified in looking for. The expansion of the brief bio- graphical sketch into the volume which should adeiiuately represent O'Connell as the " Hero " of the Irish nation, would seem to have called for not only the popularizing element that is here supplied, but more es- pecially such a fuller consideration of Irish conditions and development in connection with the hero's work as should adequately show the con- nections between them, and leave us with a clearer conception of what the hero and his work represent in Irish and British history. Another very considerable element in this "expansion" is large quotations from O'Connell's papers and speeches. This is entirely praise- worthy, but the method employed is by no means satisfactory. Apart from the fact that no references whatever are given for such extracts, and that the exact dates are most irritatingly missing, the author reproduces this matter in the third person, though at a length usually as great as if it had been given in O'Connell's exact language. In spite of these defects the book will be a useful one. It is clear and pleasant reading, is accurate and well-arranged (Fitzpatrick's some- what confused and gossippy compilation is occasionally straightened out) , and is animated by fair spirit and by generous though not extreme en- thusiasm. The illustrations are helpful (a map of Ireland should have been included), and the index passably good. Victor Coffin. The Forward Policy ami its Ri suits, or Thirty -five Years' Work amongst the T'ibes on Our North-Western Frontier of India. By Richard Isaac Bruce, CLE., formerly Political Agent, Beluchistan, late Commissioner and Superintendent, Derajat Division, Punjab, India. ( London : Longmans, Green and Co. 1900. Pp. xxviii, 382.) Eighteen Years in the Khybcr, iSjg-iSgS. By Col. Sir Roi'.ert Warburton, K.C.I.E., C.S.I. (London : John Murray. 1900. Pp. [18], 351.) The Indian Frontier question is not a new one, nor have the prob- lems connected with it received final solution, yet these two books will