IN THE MUSEUM, DUBLIN. -It has been a just complaint: of Irishmen of talent that they have been handicapped, so to speak, in their pursuit of fame and fortune, unless they abandoned Irish subjects and curbed their national sentiments. Ireland has produced many painters and sculptors of note, but, like her chiefest soldiers, statesmen and authors, they have been compelled, in general, to devote their talent to the pleasing of other people than their own--in a word, to find a market for their talent outside of Ireland and Irish interests. The poverty and decay of public spirit in Ireland, justly attributed to the loss of national autonomy, has fixed this doom upon Irish genius. "Unprized are her sons till they learn to betray the principles of their sires." This is as true of the artists, Barry, Forde, Maclise, Foley and others, as of the soldiers- Wellington and Roberts, and the authors and scientists like Leckey and Tyndall. Hogan, the only Irish sculptor who reallv devoted himself to Irish subjects, died in obscurity. Yet, although Ireland possesses but a tithe ot her children's works, Duohnis rich in an Art Gallery wherein art collected mainly the finest studies of the great masters. The beautiful group of "The Mother" the creation of the sculptor J. H. Hall, R. S., speaks eloquently for itself as a masterpiece of its kind.