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2 draws interesting pictures of Court ceremonial and social functions in pre-war days. Nor is sport forgotten, nor the humorous side of Irish life, which suggests a fund of entertaining anecdotes and stories. It is interesting to know that though Sir John, an Ulsterman, lived in Southern Ireland for more than forty years and in the execution of his duty was often obliged to do unpopular things, he can write that “neither I nor any member of my family had to complain of an unkind deed, or even word.”