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of Siberia, or whether they be natives of the interior 

 of Africa, none so much resemble the baboon as an 

 Irishman." 



(4.) Punch, as we are informed by its present 

 Editor, Mr. Burnand, " invariably represented the 

 turbulent Irishman as of a low savage type."* The 

 other comic journals of England, and Puck, Judge, 

 and the Knownothing comics of America rival the 

 brutal savagery of Punch. And not to tire and 

 disgust f the reader with those details, suffice it to 

 say that voice, and pen, and pencil have done their 

 worst to misrepresent the physical and moral 

 characteristics of Irishmen. 



(5.) Nearly all those libellers of whom we have 

 spoken belonged to " a country which," according to 

 Dean Swift, " would be glad to eat up our whole 

 Nation without salt." But they are surpassed in 

 audacity of assertion by a native of a land, the in- 

 habitants of which are said by the English poet, 

 Shenstone, to be 



" Gifted beyond the entire human race 

 With matchless intrepidity of face." 



This Irishman wrote in an Irish periodical, the 



* Fortnightly Review of July, 1886, p. 58. 



t In Dr. Knox's book On Race, p. 325, we are informed that 

 ' ' Civilized man cannot sink lower than at Derrynane and 

 Skibbereen " ! ! 1 



