and abroadThe author did not stay at home and write his book Distance lends enchantment to the view you know so Mr Sutherland went to Ireland to see for himself and in fact to see for others Ills first mission to Ireland wps in 1001 He is strictly speaking and in every sense a practical American Ills visit to Ireland was as correspondent fpr the Philadelphia North American and his letters did much to arouse American interest In the cause of Ireland Mr Sutherland saw evictions He talked with evicted families He saw what English misrule was doing in Ireland and against the Irish people lIe wrote intelligently and con vincingly of what he saw and heard and his letters attracted attention nil over the world The conditionshe described were not new to Irish Americans Many of them hind Keen things as described by Mr Suther land Others had heard them from parents and grandparents But it was new to have an American visit the land of saints and write vivid pictures of what he saw landlord ism the eviction of tenants to make grazing lands for cattle A country overburdened with police and tens of thousands of its best young peo ple annually leaving Ireland for the United States for the Argentine and for Australia The letters of the young journalist attracted the at tnction of the thinking men in American profeslonal and political circlesIn Mr Sutherland returned to Ireland and sent a new series of let ters showing the improvements made since his