Ireland As A Resort

me question is continually asked, Why is Ireland, with its exquisite scenery and almost unrivaled beauty neglected by the peripatetic Saxon? There are, or have been, invariably two methods of solving the problem says the St. James Gazette. The Saxon has shrugged his shoulders and repeated for the thousandth time the oíd formula about the discomfort and the excessively high tariff of the Irish hotel. Or, on the other hand he may have remarked on the dilatoriness of the Irish railway train. It is not for ua to deny that, to a very considerable degree, complaints of this character have been more than justified; but a recent ana ratner extended experionce of both these necessary adjuncts to the business of touring has revealed to us the fact that such grounds of dissatisfaction are being rapidly and certainly removed. Ireland has at last awakened to her possibilities as a tourist resort which-whether it be in sea, mountain lake or river scenery- rivals if it does not excel Scotland and Wales She is accelerating and improving her railway service; she is opening up new andfor the tourist-virgin routes; her hotel propnetors are alive to the necessity for materially changing their methoasand, given these conditions, there can be no posslble reason in the world why Ireland should not obtain a fair share of the holiday harvest which at present is bèstowed with bounteous hand upon the continent.