This pamphlet is not, as its name might seem to import, a penny
dreadful, at least in the ordinary sense. It consists of a series of
studies of the English education system in Ireland. The article entitled
“The Murder Machine” embodies an article which appeared in the _Irish
Review_ for February 1913. The article called “An Ideal in Education”
was printed in the _Irish Review_ for June 1914. The rest of the
pamphlet is a collation of notes made for a lecture which I delivered in
the Dublin Mansion House in December 1912.