THE NINETEENTH CENTURY COLLEGE MAR 12 1886 LIBRARY. A MONTHLY REVIEW 1. The Economic Value of Ireland to Great Britain. By ROBERT GIFFEN 329 II. The Evolution of Theology. By Professor HUXLEY III. Mr. Godkin on Popular Government. By SIR HENRY SUMNER MAINE. 366 IV. The Free-Trade Idolatry. By the Right Hon. LORD PENZANCE V. Turner's Drawings at the Royal Academy. By W. G. RAWLINSON VI. In French Prisons. By Prince KROPOTKIN 1. Precedents. By the Right Hon. G. SHAW LEFEVRE. 3. For Scotland. By the Hon. ARTHUR D. ELLIOT, M.P. KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & CO., LONDON. PARIS: LIBRAIRIE GALIGNANI, 224 RUE DE RIVOLI. AGENTS FOR AMERICA: THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS COMPANY, NEW YORK, Price Half-a-Crown. All rights reserved. Prepared by a new and special scientific process securing extreme solubility, and developing the finest flavour of the Cocoa. It is especially adapted to those whose digestive organs are weak, and I strongly recommend it as a substitute for tea for young persons.'-Sir Chas. A. Cameron, President Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, &c ROWLAND'S ROWLAND'S ROWLAND'S is the best and purest tooth powder: it is the best preserver and beautifier of the is the best MAR 12 1886 LIBRARY THAT One of the roots of mischief in Ireland is economic, everybody agrees. The curse of Ireland is its poverty. The hunger for land which is so unintelligible to English feeling is at the bottom of outrages of every kind, and is played upon by political agitators. It is not, however, generally understood how the weakness of Ireland affects the whole aspect of the Irish political difficulty. I have thought it worth while, therefore, when the notion of splitting partnership is in the air, to bring together some notes as to the economic position of Ireland, relatively to Great Britain, from the point of view of a statesman in Great Britain looking at the suggested proposal to part company as a mere matter of business—as he would look, in fact, at the analogous suggestion of union with a State which was seeking partnership with us. The statesman, of course, must weigh moral and political considerations as well as economic, and the various questions involved are necessarily intermixed; but it is expedient nevertheless to separate the economic from the other elements. We shall know better what we are doing or going to do in Ireland if the business loss or gain is clear, The first p people of Irela nearly thirty-o t to notice in such a question is population. The e rather less than five millions, as compared with and a half millions in Great Britain. If Great VOL. XIX.-No. 109. Ꮓ |