matter dropped, and the trial proceeded. Onlookers were startled by the fact that Fitzgibbon's wife and daughter were present in Court during the exchange. Author Fitzgibbon continued his highly successful legal practice until 1860, when he accepted the post of Receiver-Master in Chancery. He published in 1868 a work entitled Ireland in 1868, the Battle Field for English Party Strife; its Grievances real and fictitious; Remedies abortive or mischievous, octavo. The book, which displays considerable literary ability, dealt with the educational, agrarian, religious, and other questions of the hour. The last and longest chapter, which was entitled 'The Former and Present Condition of the Irish People,' was published separately the same year. Its design is to show, by the evidence of history and tradition, that such measure of prosperity as Ireland has enjoyed has been due to the English connection. A second edition of the original work also appeared in the course of the year, with an additional chapter on the land question, in which stress is laid on the duties of landowners. This Fitzgibbon followed up with a pamphlet entitled 'The Land Difficulty of Ireland, with an Effort to Solve it,' 1869, octavo. The principal feature of his plan of reform was that fixity of tenure (one of the key political demands of the day) should be granted to the Irish tenant farmer, conditionally upon his executing improvements to his property to the satisfaction of a public official appointed for the purpose. In 1871 he published Roman Catholic Priests and National Schools, a pamphlet in which the kind of religious instruction given by Roman Catholic priests, particularly with regard to the dogma of eternal punishment, is illustrated from authorised works. Fitzgibbon, though he does not seem to have been especially bigoted in religious matters, was profoundly suspicious of the Roman Catholic priesthood. A second edition with an appendix appeared in 1872. Having in 1871 been charged in the House of Commons with acting with inhumanity in the administration of certain landed property belonging to wards of the Court of Chancery (Ireland), he published in pamphlet form a vindication of his conduct, entitled Refutation of a Libel on Gerald Fitzgibbon, Esq., Master in Chancery in Ireland, 1871 8vo. Fitzgibbon also published A Banded Ministry and the Upas Tree, 1873, 8vo. He resigned his post in 1880, and died in September 1882. Reputation As an advocate, he enjoyed a high reputation