The Irish Blue-book for 1873—the twenty-third Report of the Inspectors and Commissioners of Control of Irish Asylums for the Insane—fonns the first of what bids fair to be a much improved series of these interesting annual records. The improvement consists in the more systematic arrangement of the information regarding each of the twenty-two district Asylums, as well as the Central Asylum for Criminal Lunatics at Dundrum near Dublin. The history and present condition of each of the twenty-three public institutions is given, with commendable fulness, and we have no doubt that future reports—when the Inspectors get accustomed to the new style—will contain information as compelete as could be wished for.