PREFACE. I 



low savage type." They took as their model the 

 very lowest type of the Englishman, adorned 

 him with a tattered coat, kneebreeches, a 

 battered hat, a clay pipe, a shillelah, and 

 presented him as a typical native of Ireland, 

 The Predominant Partner, of course, made 

 endless fun of such a droll figure, and, while 

 devoting himself to the complacent survey of 

 his own immaculate and irreproachable person, 

 prayed tlms within himself : " God, I give 

 Thee thanks, that I am not as the Hirishman." 



His "cousins," the Knownothings of America, 

 dutifully followed "The Mother Country" in 

 this unholy and unwholesome crusade of 

 calumny and insult, and their Puck and other 

 comic papers surpassed in savagery even the 

 odious caricatures of the Punch of other days. 



Abundant proofs of this malevolence and 

 malignity are given in our First Chapter, which 

 may not be pleasant reading to Englishmen. 

 Many, perhaps most of them, have a kindly 

 feeling towards Ireland, and I am glad to hear 

 that this feeling is growing as time goes on. 

 I spent nearly three years among the English, 

 and I do not remember having ever heard an 



