we shall have them all. Till then we must work for
ourselves. So far as we can study music in societies, art in schools,
literature in institutes, science in our colleges, or soldiership in
theory, we are bound as good citizens to learn. Where these are denied
by power, or unattainable by clubbing the resources of neighbours, we
must try and study for ourselves. We must visit museums and
antiquities, and study, and buy, and assist books of history to know
what the country and people were, how they fell, how they suffered, and
how they arose again. We must read books of statistics--and let us
pause to regret that there is no work on the statistics of Ireland
except the scarce lithograph of Moreau, the papers in the second Report
of the Railway Commission, and the chapters in _M'Culloch's Statistics
of the British Empire_--the Repeal Association ought to have a handbook
first, and then an elaborate and vast account of Ireland's statistics
brought out.

To resume, we must read such statistics as we have, and try and get
better; and we must get the best maps of the country--the Ordnance and
County Index Maps, price 2_s._ 6_d._ each, and the Railway Map, price
L1--into our Mechanics' Institutes, Temperance Reading-rooms, and
schools. We must, in making our journeys of business and pleasure,
observe and ask for the nature and amount of the agriculture, commerce,
and manufactures of the place we are in, and its shape, population,
scenery, antiquities, arts, music, dress, and capabilities for
improvement. A large portion of our people travel a great deal within
Ireland, and often return with no knowledge, save of the inns they
slept in and the traders they dealt with.

We must give our children in schools the best knowledge of science,
art, and literary elements possible. And at home they should see and
hear as much of national pictures, music, poetry, and military science
as possible.

And finally, we must keep our own souls, and try, by teaching and
example, to lift up the souls of all our family and neighbours to that
pitch of industry, courage, information, and wisdom necessary to enable
an enslaved, dark, and starving people to become free, and rich, and
rational.

Well, as to this National History--L'Abbe MacGeoghegan published a
history of Ireland, in French, in 3 volumes, quarto, dedicated to the
Irish Brigade. Writing in France he was free from the English
censorship; writing for "The Brigade," he avoided the impu