HUXLEY, JULIAN SORELL. More simple science: earth and man, by Julian Huxley & E. N. da C. Andrade; with drawings by L. R. Brightwell & Comerford Watson.

HUXLEY, JULIAN SORELL. More simple science: earth and man, by Julian Huxley & E. N. da C. Andrade; with drawings by L. R. Brightwell & Comerford Watson.

(After a drawing by Comerford.)] During the viceroyalty of Lord Townshend, who became Lord-Lieutenant in 1767, an Octennial Bill was passed limiting the duration of Parliament to eight years, but this momentary gleam of better things was not sustained; on the contrary, corruption was, under his rule, carried even further than it had been before.

Among resident Irish artists, the highest praise can be given to the miniature painters, John Comerford (1770?-1832) and Charles Robertson (1760-1821), and to the portrait-painters, Robert Hunter (fl. 1750-1803) and (especially)