Charles I.--Strafford's Letters. Carte's Life of Ormond. Lodge's
Desiderata. Clarendon's Rebellion. Tichborne's Drogheda. State
Trials. Rinuccini's Letters. Pamphlets. Castlehaven's Memoirs.
Clanrickarde's Memoirs. Peter Walsh. Sir J. Temple.

Charles II.--Lord Orrery's Letters. Essex's Letters.

James II. and William III.--King's State of Protestants, and
Lesley's Answer. The Green Book. Statutes of James's Parliament, in
Dublin Magazine, 1843. Clarendon's Letters. Rawdon Papers. Tracts.
Molyneux's Case of Ireland.

George I. and II.--Swift's Life. Lucas's Tracts. Howard's Cases
under Popery Laws. O'Leary's Tracts. Boulter's Letters.
O'Connor's and Parnell's Irish Catholics. Foreman on "The Brigade."

George III.--Grattan's and Curran's Speeches and Lives--Memoirs of
Charlemont. Wilson's Volunteers. Barrington's Rise and Fall. Wolfe
Tone's Memoirs. Moore's Fitzgerald. Wyse's Catholic Association.
Madden's United Irishmen. Hay, Teeling, etc., on '98. Tracts.
MacNevin's State Trials. O'Connell's and Sheil's Speeches.
Plowden's History.

Compilations.--Moore. M'Geoghegan. Curry's Civil Wars. Carey's
Vindiciae. O'Connell's Ireland. Leland.

Current Authorities.--The Acts of Parliament. Lords' and Commons'
Journals and Debates. Lynch's Legal Institutions.

Antiquities, Dress, Arms.--Royal Irish Academy's Transactions and
Museum. Walker's Irish Bards. British Costume, in Library of
Entertaining Knowledge.

ANCIENT IRELAND.

There was once civilisation in Ireland. We never were very eminent, to
be sure, for manufactures in metal, our houses were simple, our very
palaces rude, our furniture scanty, our saffron shirts not often
changed, and our foreign trade small. Yet was Ireland civilised.
Strange thing! says someone whose ideas of civilisation are identical
with carpets and cut-glass, fine masonry, and the steam engine; yet
'tis true. For there was a time when learning was endowed by the rich
and honoured by the poor, and taught all over our country. Not only did
thousands of natives frequent our schools and colleges, but men of
every rank came here from the Continent to study under the professors
and system of Ireland, and we need not go beyond the testimonies of
English antiquaries, from Bede to Camden, that these schools were
regarded as the first in Europe. Ireland was equally remarkable for
piety. In t