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406 / A M E S [ 1915-1916 ]sowing of the Sinn Fein seed and I hope he is not even a home ruler.Democratic principles are unsuited to Ireland. Already the people are beginningto regret their landlords and to hate the congested District Board.The Irish like priests and believe in the power of priests to forgive themrule would be if they were given permission to persecute someone, that isthe Roman Catholic idea of liberty. It always has been and always will be.I am an admirer of Mr. Asquith and regret that he cannot bring himselfto believe that there can be no settlement, and that all attempts at settlementwill fail. The Irish like discipline, and if Mr. Asquith would treatthe Irish as the Pope does he would be the most popular man in Ireland.Yours sincerely,George MooreP.S. I am sure that from a literary point of view Joyce is deserving ofhelp. 44In August 1916 the Prime Minister granted Joyce £100 from the CivilList. Joyce wrote to thank Yeats and the 'wonder worker,' Pound, andsaid to the former, i hope that now at last matters may begin to go alittle more smoothly for me for, to tell the truth, it is very tiresome towait and hope for so many years.' 45He came to feel that the 'royalbounty,' while unconditional, implied an obligation to England, whichhe paid off later in his own way. He also received small sums from otherquarters, £25 sent anonymously through Pound in June and July, and £2a week for thirteen weeks from the Society of Authors, also at Pound'sinstigation. The Society later extended the subsidy for three additionalmonths.Although there were further contretemps in his publishing enterprises,and Joyce suffered in late October a kind of nervous collapse, 46probablya fit of depression, at the end of the year his pertinacity, which madePound address him in one letter as 'Dear Job,' was rewarded. Huebschbrought out in December an American edition of Dubliners, 47using sheetsimported from Grant Richards, and then on December 29, A Portrait ofthe Artist as a Young Man in its first edition anywhere.* Joyce's difficultieswere not over; his temperament, as much as his circumstances, preventedtheir ever being so. But for several years to come they were largelyof his own making.* Joyce had decided that 1916 was a lucky year for him, and insisted the book should bepublished before the end of it or dated 1916 anyway. Huebsch obliged him.