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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 42, 6 February 1885, Page 11

Governesses, housekeepers, or servants in search of employment,or employers needing help of any kind may apply with advantage to themselves at Mrs. Dick's Registry Office, Moray Place, Dunedin. The Century for December very properly gives the place of honrur, its opening pages, to an extremely well written article by Professor Edward Dowclen, on Dublin City. The writer is not especially an admirer of Castle government of foreign domination, though he is a Professor in Trinity College. " Seventy years ago," he says, " Dublin was the second city of the British Empire, and only half a dozen capitals in Europe exceeded it in population and extent." He alludes with merited scorn to the wretched toadyism represented in the statues of the ignoble royal Georges which ornament the Irish capital and which provoked the angry disgust of Thackeray. " Absurd enough," he exclaims, " but only a petty fragment of the huge absurdity that Ireland might do honor to anything, provided only it was not Irish." The etymology of the name " Chapelizod," which will be remembered in connection, with the Phoenix Park assassinations, will reveal to many readers an interestting connection with Round Table romance. The picture of " genteel " Dublin, its Philistinism, its sycophancy, the university whence "no wave of tronght has ever spread abroad and ruffled the blue inane," a whimsical anecdote of Dr. Barrett, and a touching glimpse of poor Clarence Mangan — these and a score of other facts and fancies add to the piquancy of the interesting sketch. Our essayist is no respecter of persons, we fear, for he ridicules with equal impartiality the rhodomontade apparent in certain patriotic works and the Brummagem grandeur of Castle dignitaries and high society. Still the sketch is more sympathetic than critical, and it would be a supersensitive reader who would find fault with its gentle satire. Tbe whole essay will repay perusal, and its closing sentence is not too prophetic to be probable v " Placed as we are between you (John and Jonathan), we want to hold hands with both, and dream of the day far distaut still — when we shall be as a liuk to bind together the kindred democracies of England and America,"