Chapter XVI: Part I: tells how a peasant girl is, after a week’s (5)

⸺ ULRICK THE READY. New ed. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1896]. 1908.

Period: last years of Elizabeth’s reign. Scene: the country of
O’Sullivan Beare, the south-west corner of Cork. Weaves the
battle of Kinsale and the siege of Dunboy into the story of the
young O’Sullivan, Ulrick. Full of vividly presented details
of the public and private life of the time, and of novel and
suggestive presentments of its political and social ideals.
These it brings home to the reader as no history could do. Yet
the story is not neglected. Standpoint: impartial, on the whole.

⸺ IN THE WAKE OF KING JAMES. Pp. 242. (_Dent_). 4_s._ 6_d._ 1896.

A wild and nightmare-like tale. Scene: a lonely castle on
the west coast inhabited by a gang of Jacobite desperadoes.
Contains no historical incidents.

⸺ FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE. Pp. 298. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [_Lawrence & Bullen_, 1897]. New ed., 1908. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.10.

The historical episode of the kidnapping of Hugh Roe O’Donnell
and his escape from Dublin Castle evoked in a narrative
of extraordinary dramatic power and vividness. The Author
has breathed a spirit into the dry bones of innumerable
contemporary documents and State Papers, so that the men of
Elizabethan Ireland seem to live and move before us. The
effect is greatly strengthened by the vigour and rush of the
style, which reminds one of that of Carlyle in his _French
Revolution_. The Author has peculiar and decided views about
Elizabethan Irish politics. “The authorities for the story,”
he tells us in his Preface, “are the _Annals of the Four
Masters_, the _Historia Hiberniæ_ of Don Philip O’Sullivan
Beare, O’Clery’s _Life of Hugh Roe_, and the _Calendar of State
Papers, Ireland_, from 1587 forward.”

=O’GRADY, Standish Hayes.= B. 1832, Co. Limerick. Was a fluent Irish speaker, and his knowledge of the language and of Irish traditions was, according to those who knew him, unrivalled. Evidence of this will be found in his _Catalogue of the Irish MSS. in the British Museum_, never finished, but, as far as it goes, a mine of Gaelic lore. Was one of the founders of the Ossianic Society. D. 16th October, 1915.

⸺ SILVA GADELICA. Two Vols. Demy 8vo. (_Williams & Norgate_). 1892.

Vol. I., pp. 416, contains Irish text (Roman letters); Vol.
II., pp. xxxii. + 604, contains Preface, Translation, and
Notes. Thirty-one tales and other pieces, all taken from
ancient MSS., such as the _Book of Leinster_, the _Leabhar
Breac_, &c. Fifteen are from MSS. in the British Museum. Out of
the thirty-one, only six or seven had been published before.
Ranged under four heads—(I.) Hagiology, or Stories of early
Irish saints; (II.) Legend, historical or romantic; (III.)
Ossianic lore; (IV.) Fiction, some of which is humorous.
The Irish text is presented in a difficult and archaic
dialect, much as if, says a critic, _Robinson Crusoe_ and the
_Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_ were to be printed in the dialect of
Chaucer. The Author in his Preface discusses and describes his
sources most minutely. Forty years of study intervened between
the Author’s previous publication, _Diarmaid and Grainne_,
for the Ossianic Society (1853), and this. The English of his
translation, though sometimes affected, is vigorous, rich,
varied, often picturesque and on the whole thoroughly worthy
of the subject. Twenty-eight pages of notes and corrections.
Indexes: A, of personal and tribal names; B, of place-names.

=O’HANLON, Canon John; “Lageniensis.”= B. Stradbally, 1821. From 1842-1857 he was in U.S.A., where he was ordained. He published eighteen important works dealing with Irish history, archæology, and especially hagiography, his great _Lives of the Irish Saints_, nine vols. of which appeared, being a lasting monument to his research. He died in 1905.

⸺ IRISH FOLK-LORE: Traditions and Superstitions of the Country: with Humorous Tales. (_Cameron & Ferguson_). Pp. viii. + 312. 2_s._ 1870.

A miscellany containing folk-lore proper, studies in popular
superstition viewed as remnants of paganism, historical
episodes, tales, &c., gathered from ancient MSS., with a great
store of antiquarian and historical information about all
periods of our annals and very many parts of Ireland. Much of
all this is drawn from rare and not easily accessible sources.
Contains chapters on Druidism, Legendary Voyages, Dungal the
Recluse. A type of the humorous stories is the capital “Mr.
Patrick O’Byrne in the Devil’s Glen.” The book is intended for
the general public rather than for folklorists. It is pleasant
and chatty in style. The source of the stories is not, as a
rule, indicated by the Author.

⸺ THE BURIED LADY: a Legend of Kilronan. (DUBLIN). 1877.

⸺ IRISH LOCAL LEGENDS. Pp. 133. (_Duffy_). 1_s._ First publ. 1896; still in print.

A collection of thirty stories picked up by the Author
during holidays in various parts of Ireland, and “received,
mostly, from accidental and familiar intercourse with the
peasantry.”—(Pref.). The place with which the legend is
connected is indicated in each case. The legends are of a
very miscellaneous nature, local incidents, fairy stories,
ghost stories, old hero stories, &c. A considerable number of
counties are represented by one or more stories.

=O h-ANNRACHAIN, Michea.= B. New Ross, Co. Wexford. Ed. Christian Bros.’ Schools and Collegiate Academy, Carlow. Has written a good deal for the press. Is an ardent worker in the Language Movement.

⸺ A SWORDSMAN OF THE BRIGADE. Pp. 231. (_Sands_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1914.

A fine stirring adventure story of the doings of one of the
“Wild Geese” in Sheldon’s division of the Irish Brigade in the
service of France. Scene: Flanders, Bavaria, Italy, and Dublin.
_c._ 1703. Told in a breezy way and thoroughly Irish in spirit.

=O’HARE, Hardress.=

⸺ CONQUERED AT LAST: from Records of Dhu Hall and its Inmates. A Novel. Three Vols. 1874.

=O’HIGGINS, Brian; “Brian na Banban.”= B. Kilskyre (Cill Scire), Co. Meath, 1882; ed. there. Came to Dublin about twelve years ago and threw himself into the work of the Gaelic League, for which he became a travelling teacher (múinteoir taistil) in Cavan and Meath. Has publ. two books in Irish. Has for years past been a frequent contributor to the Catholic and Irish press at home and in America and Australia. His songs are popular at Irish-Ireland concerts all over the country.

⸺ BY A HEARTH IN EIRINN. (_Gill_), 1_s._ 1908.

The gay and humorous side of the language movement seen from a
League point of view—the Seonín, the Feis, the Gaelic Christmas
hearth. One sketch gives a glimpse of the early years of John
Boyle O’Reilly.

⸺ GLIMPSES OF GLEN-NA-MONA. Pp. 115. (_Duffy_). 6_d._ Paper. 1908.

Sketches of peasant life in a remote glen (place not
indicated). Almost wholly taken up with the sadness and the
miseries of emigration. Simple, pathetic, and religious.

⸺ FUN O’ THE FORGE. (DUBLIN: _Whelan_). 1915.

A collection of humorous stories.

=O’Kane, Rev. W. M.= B. 1872, at Millisle, Co. Down. Son of Capt. Francis O’Kane, of Weymouth and Millisle. Ed. Royal Academical Institution, Belfast, and at Queen’s Coll., Belfast; B.A. and LL.B., R.U.I. Was Curate in Banbridge and Belfast and is at Present Incumbent of Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Author of _The King’s Luck_ and _Guppy Guyson_.

⸺ WITH POISON AND SWORD. Pp. 402. (_Mills & Boon_). 6_s._ 1910.

Love story and adventures in 1561 or thereabouts of Cormac
O’Hagan, follower and friend of Shane O’Neill, his escape from
the Tower, his rescue of Marjorie Drayton, his share in the
battle of Armagh where Shane defeats the Deputy, his going with
Shane to visit Elizabeth, and many sensational adventures in
consequence. He finally gives up Ireland altogether, settles
in England, and he and his descendants ever after are good
Englishmen. One of the chief characters is the ever resourceful
Dickie Toogood.

=O’KEARNEY, Nicholas.= Trans.

⸺ THE STORY OF CONN-EDA; or, The Golden Apples of Loch Erne, from the Irish. Pp. 17. (LONDON: _J. R. Smith_). 1855.

Reprinted from the Proceedings of the “Cambrian Archæological
Association.”

=O’KEEFFE, Christopher M.=

⸺ THE KNIGHTS OF THE PALE. Pp. viii. + 263. (GLASGOW: _Cameron & Ferguson_). 1857 and 1870.

Sub-title, “Ireland 400 Years Ago.” First appeared in _The
Celt_. The Author was sentenced about 1866 to penal servitude
for Fenianism, was released about 1877, went to U.S.A., and
died in Brooklyn about 1889. Wrote also a Life of O’Connell in
two vols. “The object of the story is to give the impression
which a prolonged study of Irish antiquities has produced on
the Author’s mind.”—(Pref.). Interspersed with the narrative
are several pieces of verse, some original, some translated by
the Author from the Gaelic. The period is the middle of the
15th century.

=O’KELLY, Seumas.=

⸺ BY THE STREAM OF KILMEEN. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ Paper. _c._ 1910.

Ten short sketches of the little tragedies and comedies of
the lives of the humbler classes. They are simple, true, and
sincere. The scene is Clare or Galway.

=O’KENNEDY, Father Richard.= P.P. of Fedamore, Co. Limerick.

⸺ COTTAGE LIFE IN IRELAND.

“Father O’Kennedy was born in 1850, was educated in Limerick
and in Maynooth. Has been for a long time contributor to
various Irish and American magazines, notably the IRISH
MONTHLY. He knows his people intimately, and knows how to
interest us in the simple pains and pleasures of the poor....
His style is charming. He has an eye for the simplicities of
life.”—(IRISH LIT.). His stories and sketches are known and
appreciated in the U.S. even more than at home in Ireland.

=O’LEARY, C.=

⸺ THE IRISH WIDOW’S SON; or, The Pikemen of ’98. (BOSTON). 1869.

Wrote also _The Last Rosary_ (BOSTON), 1869.

=O’MAHONY, Nora Tynan.= A sister of Katharine Tynan, _q.v._ Dau. of the late Andrew C. Tynan, of Whitehall, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin. Married John O’Mahony (d. 1904), a brilliant Irish barrister. She has written much for Irish and American periodicals and has just published a vol. of poems which has been highly praised. Her work is simple, gentle, with many touches of beauty. The atmosphere is always Irish and Catholic.

⸺ UNA’S ENTERPRISE. Pp. 241. (_Gill_). Neat binding. 1907.

Struggles of a young girl of good social position to maintain
her widowed mother and little brother and sister. She
eventually does this by means of poultry farming, of which much
is said. There is little distinctively Irish in the story. The
style is graceful and pleasing.

⸺ MRS. DESMOND’S FOSTER CHILD. (_Browne & Nolan_). 1_s._ 6_d._ 1912.

=O’MEARA, Graves.=

⸺ OWEN DONOVAN, Fenian. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ Paper. 1909.

Adventures of a Fenian in England, and of his lady-love, a
_prima donna_ at Covent Garden. Plenty of sensation, of a crude
and improbable type. A “time-slayer,” as the Author calls it.

=O’MEARA, Kathleen; “Grace Ramsay.”= B. Dublin, 1839. Dau. of Dennis O’Meara, of Tipperary, and granddaughter of Barry O’M., Napoleon’s surgeon. She went with her parents to Paris at an early age, and it is doubtful whether she afterwards visited her native land. D. N. B. enumerates fifteen of her works, six of which were novels. D. 1888.

⸺ THE BATTLE OF CONNEMARA. (_Washbourne_). 1878.

A story of priests and people in Connaught in the days of
the Soupers by an Author distinguished in other fields of
literature. The scene is laid partly in Paris. Noteworthy
characters are Mr. Ringwood, an English convert clergyman,
and Father Fallon, an Irish country priest. The plot turns
mainly on the conversion of an English lady who had married an
Irishman and settled in Connaught. Controversy is avoided.

=O’MULLANE, M. J., M.A.= B. 1889 in Sligo. Gained an honours diploma in education in the National University. Is Principal of the National Examining Institute of Ireland, Professor of Mod. Languages in Christian Schools, Westland Row, and of Irish in Spiddal Summer Irish College, Galway. He has contributed serials on Irish historical subjects to OUR BOYS. He has done much to spread among the people knowledge of and interest in the heroic period of early Gaelic Ireland by means of his excellent penny C.T.S.I. pamphlets, soon, we hope, to be given a more permanent form. The following are the titles:—

_Craobh Ruadh; or, the Red Branch Knights._ Two parts. 1910.

This is partly a serious study of the subject, partly a
retelling of the old sagas.

_The Tuatha de Danaan; or, the Children of Dana._ Two parts.

_Links with the Past._ Containing “Lug-na-Gall” (a legend of 1642), “Green are the Distant Hills,” “The Origin of Lough Gill,” “Melcha,” “The Wooing of Eithne.”

_The Coming of the Children of Miledh._

_Finn MacCoole._

_Biroge of the Mountain_, and Other Tales, viz.:—“The Recovery of the Táin Bo Cuailgne,” “The First Water-Mill in Ireland,” “The Wooing of Moriath,”—all tales of early Ireland.

_The Return of the Red Hand._ A story of Dunamase, fortress of the O’Moores in the year 1200.

These nine pamphlets are very well but not pretentiously
written. They are written with good knowledge of the period
referred to, but are not overloaded with archæology. In
footnotes the pronunciation of the Gaelic names is given
phonetically. The first eight of these booklets, together
with Fr. Skelly’s _Cuchulainn of Muirthemne_ (_q.v._) form an
excellent introduction to Ireland’s Heroic Period and to our
saga literature.

=O’NEILL, John.=

⸺ HANDRAHAN, the Irish Fairy Man; and Legends of Carrick[-on-Suir]. Edited by Mrs. S. C. Hall and publ. 1854. (LONDON: _Tweedie_). Pp. 187.

The Author was born in Waterford, 1777. Lived the last years
of his chequered life in poverty in London. Published several
volumes of verse, chiefly on Temperance subjects, and a drama
entitled _Alva_. D. _c._ 1860. The above is a very good and
original story. Handrahan is a kind of herb-doctor skilled in
potions and in charms against the fairies.

⸺ MARY OF AVONMORE; or, The Foundling of the Beach. Three Vols.

N.B.—This is not in the British Museum Library or elsewhere
that I know of, but is given a prominent mention in all his
biographies.

=“O’NEILL, Moira,” Mrs. Skrine=, _née_ =Nesta Higginson=. Author of the well-known _Songs of the Glens of Antrim_. Her home was long in Cushendun, Co. Antrim. She has also published _An Easter Vacation_, 1893. The scene laid in an English watering place. A frequent contributor to BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE.

⸺ THE ELF ERRANT. Pp. 109. (_A. H. Bullen_). Seven illustr. by W. E. F. Britten. New ed., 1902.

An excursion into Fairyland. A fanciful tale, told in exquisite
and simple language, with elves and fairies for characters.
All through there is a subtle comparison, which only the grown
and thoughtful children will notice, of English and Irish
character. This latter by no means interferes with the interest
of the book for children, but makes it well worth reading by
the grown-ups.

Republished, Christmas, 1909, by _Sidgwick & Jackson_. 3_s._
6_d._

=O’REILLY, Gertrude M.=

⸺ JUST STORIES. Pp. 233. (N.Y.: _Devin-Adair Co._). $1.00. 1915.

The Author came to America from Ireland in 1907. Agnes Repplier
says of the book: “These Irish stories are as good as good can
be; gay, sad, amusing, pathetic, human. I like the stories
themselves; I like the way they are told. They don’t suggest
‘plot,’ but bits of real life.” In the Pref. the Author says:
“Thoughts go back to the long restful days beside Galway Bay,
to the still evenings in the Cork hills.... These little
stories are the fruit of these moments of retrospection.” There
is much dialect, well reproduced.

=“O’REILLY, Private Myles,”= _see_ =HALPINE=.

=ORPEN, Mrs.=

⸺ CORRAGEEN IN ’98. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _New Amsterdam Book Co._). Pp. 325. 1.50. 1898.

“Written with sympathy for the loyalists. A realistic
description of the more horrible features.”—(_Baker_).

=O’RYAN, Julia and Edmund.=

⸺ _IN RE_ GARLAND. (_Richardson_). 1873.

Time: after Famine of 1846, when the Encumbered Estates Court
was in full swing. Cleverly written, and showing intimate
knowledge of Munster ways of speech and thought among the
farming and lower classes. Good taste and strong faith in the
people and in the people’s faith are everywhere discernible.
The writers eschew all moralizing and also all description of
scenery.—(IRISH MONTHLY).

=O’RYAN, W. P.; “Kevin Kennedy.”= B. near Templemore, Co. Tipperary, 1867. Lived for several years in London, where he took an active share in the activities of the Southwark Irish Literary Club and the Irish Literary Society: he has written a history of their beginnings. Was editor of THE PEASANT and of its successors, THE IRISH PEASANT and THE IRISH NATION. In these he mingled anti-clericalism with much excellent writing strongly national in tone. _The Plough and the Cross_ is largely autobiographical. Publ. 1912, _The Pope’s Green Island_.

⸺ THE PLOUGH AND THE CROSS. Pp. 378. (_The Irish Nation_). 1_s._ 1910.

A story, how much of which is fact we do not learn, woven round
certain real events of recent date, and in particular the
stopping of a paper of which the Author was editor. Many of the
characters may be recognised as portraits of real personages,
among others the Author himself, Mr. T. P. O’Connor, Geo.
Moore, Mr. James McCann, Mr. Edward Martyn, and Mr. Sweetman.
The book is largely taken up with conversations in which
the Author gives expression to his peculiar views on many
subjects. Many of these belong to the class of ideas known
collectively to Catholics as Modernism. Throughout the book
there is constant criticism of the Irish clergy, much of this
criticism being put into the mouths of “progressive” priests.
The personages and the series of events dealt with are highly
idealized. Distinctly well written, but somewhat “exalté” in
style. Scene: Dublin and the Boyne Valley.

_See_ =RYAN, W. P.=

=O’SHAUGHNESSY, Tom.=

⸺ TERENCE O’DOWD; or, Romanism To-day. Pp. 350. (PHILADELPHIA: _Presbyterian Board of Publication_). _n.d._

“An Irish story founded on facts.” Scene near Mt. Nephin and
the Deel, Co. Mayo. A long diatribe against the Catholic
Church, representing it in the most odious light, in order,
says the Introd., to warn Protestants that it is the same
monstrously wicked system as ever. Ignorance, squalour,
rudeness, and brutality are the terms constantly used to
describe the Irish peasantry. The tone is often facetious and
sarcastic. The peasants, including “Father McNavigan,” speak an
extraordinary jargon. Appendices give extracts from Kirwan’s
letter to Bishop Hughes.

=O’SHEA, James.=

⸺ FELIX O’FLANAGAN, an Irish-American. Pp. 206. (CORK: _Flynn_). 1902.

The story of an Irish peasant lad, first in Ireland as clerk
in a shop and commercial traveller in a small way, then in
America as labourer, soldier, and business man. Good picture of
farming and provincial town life in Ireland of the day. Point
of view Catholic and strongly nationalist. The book almost a
sermon against drink and emigration. Style and handling of plot
somewhat immature.

=O’SHEA, John Augustus; “The Irish Bohemian.”= 1840-1905. B. Nenagh. Ed. Catholic Univ. Went to London, 1859. Was war correspondent and writer on THE STANDARD for twenty-five years. Was a man of extraordinary versatility—journalist, writer on continental politics, lecturer, dramatist, Irish politician. He was a member of the Southwark Irish Literary Club, 1885, _sqq._ Mr. W. P. Ryan speaks of him as drawing upon his own experiences of “merry and dashing life” in Tipperary for his stories—“Conal O’Rafferty” and others. See his _Leaves from the Life of a Special Correspondent_ and _Random Recollections_.

⸺ MILITARY MOSAICS: a Set of Tales, &c. Pp. viii. + 303. (_Allen_). 1888.

=[O’SULLIVAN, Rev. P. P.]; “An Ulster Clergyman.”=

⸺ THE DOWNFALL OF GRABBUM. Pp. 148. (BELFAST: _Carswell_). 6_d._ Illustr. 1913.

A political skit on the then situation in Ulster. Grabbum =
the English Garrison in Ireland; Drudge, his devoted dupe =
Orangeism. Farmer John Bull sends Grabbum over to Pat to help
him, and is amazed at the result. The moral is the beneficial
effects (including an Anglo-American alliance) of Home Rule.
Irish public men—F. J. Bigger, Sir Roger Casement, Douglas
Hyde, &c., are introduced under thin disguises. The tone is, of
course, light and facetious.

=OUTRAM, Mary Frances.=

⸺ BRANAN THE PICT. Pp. 356. (_R.T.S._). 2_s._ 6_d._ Coloured frontisp. 1913.

“An exceedingly well-written tale of the times of St. Columba,
based on the ‘life’ by Adamnan. The hero and his associates are
fictitious, but the setting of the story is worked out with
remarkable care.”—(C.B.N.). _In the Van of the Vikings_ is by
the same Author.

=“PARLEY, Peter,”= _see_ =GOODRICH=.

=[PARNELL, William, M.P.].= Wrote also _An Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics_ (1807). He was knight of the shire for Wicklow and brother of Lord Congleton. He died 1821. (See Moore’s Memoirs, vii., 109). Charles Stewart Parnell came of the same family.

⸺ MAURICE AND BERGHETTA; or, the Priest of Rahery. Pp. xxiv. + 213. (BOSTON and LONDON). [1819]. Second ed., 1825.

“Dedicated to the Catholic priesthood of Ireland.” “The
character of Maurice is drawn from a person who not many years
ago was a ploughman. The Author’s object is not to write a
novel but to place his observations on the manners of the
Irish peasantry in a less formal shape than that of a regular
dissertation.”—(Introd.). Related by Father O’Brien. The love
of Maurice O’Neal for Berghetta Tual, their marriage and
subsequent fortunes, misfortunes, and romantic adventures, till
they rise to be grandees of Spain. The coincidences are rather
far-fetched and improbable and the characters not very real.
Many moral lessons are inculcated.

=[PATRICK, Mrs. F. C.].=

⸺ THE IRISH HEIRESS. (LONDON). 18—.

=PAUL, Major Norris.=

⸺ MOONLIGHT BY THE SHANNON SHORE. Pp. 312. (_Jarrold_). [1888].

An anti-Land League novel, describing the terrorism of that
organisation and the sufferings it entailed. The plot is the
love-story of John Seebright, an Englishman, for the Irish
Eveline Wellwood, who is persecuted by the League. Devoid of
humour and almost of romance. The dialect is well handled,
and the writer clearly knew well his Limerick and Clare. But
the tone of the book is on the whole bitter and somewhat
narrow-minded.

⸺ EVELINE WELLWOOD. (_Jarrold_). 1892.

This is simply another ed. of _Moonlight by the Shannon Shore_.

=PECK, Mrs. F.=

⸺ THE LIFE AND ACTS OF THE RENOWNED AND CHIVALROUS EDMUND OF ERIN, commonly called Emun ac Knuck or Ned of the Hills, &c. Two Vols. Pp. 345, 300. (DUBLIN: _Tegg_). Other eds., 1841. Ten good illustr. by B. Clayton.

Sub-title: “An Irish Historical Romance of the Seventh
Century founded on facts and blended with a brief and pithy
epitome of the origin, antiquity, and history of Ireland.” An
extraordinary and rather eccentric production, written in a
strain of exaggerated enthusiasm for Ireland. The facts are
supposed to be taken mainly “from some very ancient documents
found amongst the papers of the late Dr. Andrews, Provost
of T.C.D.,” whose grandniece the Author was. To the novel
she appends “a Circular Letter,” relating her matrimonial
differences with her husband, Capt. P. She also wrote _Tales
for the British People_, and became a Catholic.

=PELHAM, Gordon.=

⸺ SHEILA DONOVAN, a Priest’s Love-Story. Pp. 295. (_Lynwood_). 1911.

“Stephen Glynn loves Sheila D., and there is never the smallest
reason why he should not marry her. Both are represented
as sweet and good, and he is a clergyman. After their sin
Stephen’s whole mind is set on religious atonement: he joins a
religious order, leaving Sheila to struggle on alone with her
child. He breaks his vows, and all is apparently to end happily
when, acting under a misapprehension, he drowns himself.”—(T.
LIT. SUPPL.)

=PENDER, Mrs. M. T.=, _née_ =O’Doherty=. B. Co. Antrim. Ed. at home, at Ballyrobin National School and Convent of Mercy, Crumlin Road, Belfast. Has contributed much prose and verse to various Irish periodicals.

⸺ THE GREEN COCKADE. Pp. 380, close print. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 3_s._ 6_d._

A love story, the scene of which is laid in Ulster during the
rebellion. Full of romantic adventures. Historical characters
introduced: Lord Edward Putnam M’Cabe, and especially Henry
Joy M’Cracken. Battle of Antrim described, but remainder
of incidents almost entirely fictitious. No attempt at
impartiality. The Government side is painted in the darkest
colours.

⸺ THE LAST OF THE IRISH CHIEFS.[11]

A sensational romance of the time of Sir Cahir O’Doherty’s
rising and the governorship of Paulett in Derry. _c._ 1608.

[11] I have not been able to ascertain whether this novel was ever reprinted in volume form from the periodical in which it appeared as a serial.

=PENROSE, Mrs. H. H.=, _née_ =Lewis=. B. Kinsale. Ed. at Rochelle School, Cork. Took honours in T.C.D. in German and English Literature. In addition to her novels she has written innumerable stories for the magazines, _e.g._, TEMPLE BAR and the WINDSOR. Resides in Surrey. Besides the novels mentioned below, _As Dust in the Balance_ and _An Unequal Yoke_ are partly concerned with Ireland.

⸺ DENIS TRENCH. Pp. 432. (_Alston Rivers_). 6_s._ 1911.

Denis and his sister on their mother’s death are left in doubt
about the character and identity of their father, whom they
had seen only in their infancy, and who, as a matter of fact,
had left his wife in order to become a Roman Catholic priest.
This priest acts as a kind of providence to his two children,
and reveals himself only on his death bed. The Authoress seems
quite unacquainted with Catholic practice, but does not depict
it in a hostile spirit. The scene is partly in Ireland, but the
only trace of Irish interest is an occasional reference to a
mysterious quality in the Celtic blood of the hero and heroine,
and the character of the poor girl Stella Delaney, whom Denis
marries.

⸺ A FAERY LAND FORLORN. Pp. 312. (_Alston Rivers_). 6_s._ 1912.

Life among better-class Protestant folk in a little seaside
town in the S. of Ireland. The main interest is furnished
by the sad love story of Evelyn Eyre. Mr. Eyre, gentle and
bookloving, and Capt. Donovan, given to drink and a tyrant
in his family, are neighbours and close friends till a
misunderstanding brings estrangement and leads to a tragedy,
resulting in the separation—for ever, as it proves—of Evelyn
and her lover Terence Donovan. The story is wholesome and human
and free from religious or other bias. Aunt Kitty, a lovable
old maid, provides an element of humour.

⸺ BURNT FLAX. Pp. 319. (_Mills & Boon_). 6_s._ 1914.

The Land League agitation from landlord standpoint. Excellent
but over-firm landlord, hired agitator, attempt on landlord’s
life. The rent-payers are brutally murdered by leaguers, who
are represented as drunken and credulous. There is some good
character drawing: Tinsy O’Halloran the half-witted boy, is
original: Father O’Riordan is represented as a good sensible
priest. The brogue is travestied.

=[PERCIVAL, Mrs. Margaret].=

⸺ THE IRISH DOVE; or, Faults on Both Sides. Pp. 206. (DUBLIN: _Robertson_). 1849.

By the Author of _Rosa, the Work Girl_. Helen Wilson, whose
mother was Irish, inherits an estate in Kerry. After years of
residence in India and then in England, she comes to live in
Ireland, grows to love the people, and spends what is left of
her failing life in teaching the natives the New Testament in
Irish. The interest of the book lies in its picture of and
apology for, the attempt made (chiefly by “The Irish Society”)
in the first half of the 19th century to convert the Irish to
Protestantism through the medium of the Irish language. The
witness it gives to the bitterly anti-Irish feeling prevailing
in England at the time is interesting. The peasantry is
represented as debased and priest-ridden, but their condition
is ascribed in part to English hostility and to absenteeism.

=PETREL, Fulmar.=

⸺ GRANIA WAILE. Pp. 285, large print. (_Unwin_). Frontispiece and map. 1895.

A fanciful story written around the early life and after-career
of the O’Malley Sea-queen. Her robbing, when only a young girl,
of the eagle’s nest, her desperate sea-fights, and her many
other adventures make pleasant reading. The atmosphere of the
period is well brought out. But few of the incidents narrated
are historical facts.

=PICKERING, Edgar.=

⸺ TRUE TO THE WATCHWORD. Pp. 299. (_Warne_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Eight illustr. 1902.

A spirited account of the siege of Derry from the point of view
of the besieged. Full of hairbreadth escapes and of desperate
encounters with the Irishry, who are spoken of throughout as
ferocious savages. Apart from this last point there is no
noteworthy falsification of history. For boys.

=POLLARD, Eliza F.=

⸺ THE KING’S SIGNET. (_Blackie_, and U.S.A.: _Scribner_).

France in the days of Madame de Maintenon, and Ireland during
Williamite wars. B. of the Boyne described. Juvenile.

=POLSON, Thomas R. J.=

⸺ THE FORTUNE TELLER’S INTRIGUE. Three Vols. (DUBLIN: _McGlashan_). 1847.

“Or, Life in Ireland before the Union, a tale of agrarian
outrage.” An unusually objectionable and absurd libel on the
priests and people of Ireland. The latter are represented
as slavishly submissive to the former, who are spoken of as
“walking divinities.” The priests attend their dupes at their
execution for agrarian crimes, telling them that they are
martyrs for the faith. The scene is Co. Clare.

The Author, an Englishman, and originally a private soldier,
owned and edited the FERMANAGH MAIL for about forty years.

=PORTER, Anna Maria.= Born, 1780, in Durham. Died 1832. Was daughter of a surgeon of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, of Ulster extraction, and a sister of Jane Porter, author of _The Scottish Chiefs_, &c. She published more than nineteen books.

⸺ HONOR O’HARA. Three Vols. (_Longmans_). [1826]. American ed., _Harper_, 1827. Two Vols.

The scene is laid in the N. of England, and the book has no
relation to Ireland except that the heroine is supposed to be
of Irish origin.

⸺ THE LAKE OF KILLARNEY. Pp. 350. (LONDON). New ed., 1839.

Described by the Author as “a harmless romance, which, without
aiming to inculcate any great moral lesson, still endeavours to
draw amiable portraits of virtue.”—(Pref.). An old-fashioned
novel in the early Victorian sentimental manner. The plot is
laid chiefly in Killarney (of which there is some description)
and Dublin, at the time of the earlier Napoleonic wars, when
Dublin had its parliament and was the centre of fashion. The
plot is intricate, but turns chiefly on the mischances and
misunderstandings that keep apart the hero, Felix Charlemont,
and the heroine, Rose de Blaquière. This latter name was the
title of later editions of this book, _e.g._ (LONDON: _C. H.
Clare_), 1856.

=POWER, Marguerite A.=

⸺ NELLY CAREW. Two Vols. (_Saunders & Otley_). Engraved frontisp. 1859.

The heroine, daughter of an Irish landlord, is driven by the
scheming of a crafty French stepmother (once her governess)
into marriage with an Irish roué, and leads a life of bitter
humiliation. But her honour is stainless through it all, and
there is a happy ending. Characters (_e.g._, Larry McSwiggan)
are for the most part capitally drawn. The moral is good. The
brogue is well done. This Author, a niece of the Countess of
Blessington, wrote also _Evelyn Forrester_, 1856, and _The
Foresters_, 1857.

=POWER, V. O’D.=

⸺ BONNIE DUNRAVEN: a Story of Kilcarrick. Two Vols. (589 pp.). (_Remington_). 1881.

A very sympathetic and pleasant love story of modern life in
Co. Cork. The characters are thoroughly natural and human, and,
moreover, thoroughly Irish. Conversations good. But perhaps
the chief merit of the story is its faithful reproduction of
South of Ireland “atmosphere,” especially by word-pictures of
Southern scenes—the coasts, the Blackwater, Mount Mellaray.
Was highly praised by THE ATHENÆUM, THE ACADEMY, and by the
Catholic Press.—(I.M.).

⸺ THE HEIR OF LISCARRAGH. (_Art and Book Co._). 1892.

A story in which the romantic elements are very strong.

⸺ TRACKED. (_“Ireland’s Own” Library_). 6_d._ Paper covers. 1914.

A wholesome and pleasant story of unrequited love and of
jealousy. Scene: Innishowen (Co. Donegal). A well-worked out
plot, with good descriptions of scenery. Peasants depicted with
sympathy and understanding.

=PRESTON, Dorothea.=

⸺ PADDY. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1_s._ Twenty coloured illustrs.

Paddy’s dreams and adventures in Celtic Fairyland.

=PREVOST, Antoine Francois=; called =Prevost d’Exiles=, 1697-1763.

⸺ LE DOYEN DE KELLERINE. Histoire morale composée sur les mémoires d’une illustre famille d’Irlande; et ornée de tout ce qui peut rendre une lecture utile et agréable. (LA HAYE: _P. Poppy_). 1744.

A trans. of this under title _The Dean of Coleraine_. _A Moral
History founded on the Memoirs of an Illustrious Family in
Ireland_, was printed in London (Vol. I.) and Dubl. (Vols. II.
and III.) in 1742; another ed. 1780. The work was originally
publ. in Paris, 1735, and there were further editions in 1750,
1821 (six vols.), &c. The Author was a French abbé, and a very
voluminous author, having published upwards of 200 vols. There
is a selection of his works in 39 vols. in the Library of
T.C.D. His chief title to fame is the romance _Manon Lescaut_.
The present is a well written, though very long, story, showing
how the teller of the tale, the Dean or P.P. of Coleraine, in
Antrim, watched with more than a father’s anxious care over the
fortunes of his two half-brothers and sister. Their several
characters appear admirably in the telling, especially that of
the poor good Dean, unworldly, unselfish, deeply affectionate,
but over anxious and almost over conscientious. His efforts
to keep his wayward charges in the straight path amid the
allurements of Paris are very well told. There is nothing in
the least objectionable. There is an air of reality about the
whole, though the style is old-fashioned. Towards the close the
Dean acts as a Jacobite agent in Ireland.

=PURDON, K. F.= B. in Enfield, Co. Meath, and has always resided there. Ed. at home, in England, and at Alexandra College, Dublin. Has written much for Irish and English periodicals, her first encouragement coming from the IRISH HOMESTEAD. She also owes much to the helpfulness of Richard Whiteing, the well-known writer.

⸺ CANDLE AND CRIB. Pp. 42. 12mo. (_Maunsel_). 1_s._ Christmas, 1914.

Quietly but tastefully bound. Four good illustr. in colour by
Beatrice Elvery. An exquisite little Christmas idyll telling
of the strange way Art Moloney brought his new wife home to
Ardenoo for Christmas.

⸺ THE FOLK OF FURRY FARM. Pp. 315. (_Nisbet_). 6_s._ 1914.

A story of life at Ardenoo, somewhere in the Midlands,
depicting in the most intimate way the conversation, manners,
humours, kindliness of the people. Told as if by one of
themselves with the strange phraseology, the unexpected turns,
the often poetic figurativeness of the best shanachies. Miss
Purdon writes as one with close and accurate knowledge of the
home-life, at least in its outward aspects, of the small farmer
class to which the chief characters belong. The matrimonial
affairs of Michael Heffernan and his sharp-tongued sister Julia
are humorously told, and the Author is almost a specialist in
tramps. Pref. by “Geo. Birmingham,” giving a sketch of the
Irish Literary movement.

=QUIGLEY, Rev. Hugh; “A Missionary Priest.”= 1818-1883. B. in Co. Clare, studied in Rome, and was there ordained for the American Mission. Was Rector of the University of St. Mary, Chicago, but resigned and laboured among the Chippewa Indians and among miners in California. Died in Troy, N.Y.

⸺ THE CROSS AND SHAMROCK. Pp. 240. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60. Still in print. [1853].

Religious and moral instruction conveyed in the form of a story
of the trials and sufferings (amounting at times to martyrdom)
of a family of orphan children at the hands of various types
of proselytisers. A harsh and satirical tone is adopted
in speaking of American Protestantism. Incidentally there
are sidelights on several phases of American life, notably
rail-road construction. Full sub-t.:—“Or, how to defend the
faith, an Irish-American Catholic tale of real life descriptive
of the temptations, trials, sufferings, and triumphs of the
children of St. Patrick in the great republic of Washington.”

⸺ THE PROPHET OF THE RUINED ABBEY; or, A Glance of the Future of Ireland. Pp. 247. (_Duffy_). 1863.

“A narrative founded on the ancient ‘Prophecies of Culmkill’
and on other predictions and popular traditions among the
Irish.”—(Title p.). To keep alive these traditions is the
Author’s first aim, his second “to keep alive and kindle in the
bosoms of the Irish Catholic people of this republic genuine
sentiments both of patriotism and religion.”—(Pref.). Fr. Senan
O’Donnell, under sentence of death in town of Cloughmore,
Co. Waterford, at the hands of the British Government, is
rescued by his brother. In the first part of the book there is
abundance of stirring incident, thrilling escapes, &c., but the
latter part becomes more wildly improbable and unreal as it
proceeds. Fr. Senan is wrecked off coast of Clare and lives for
years in a cave in cliffs of Moher with a little boy, rescued
from the eagles. Time: about 1750-1798. Bitterly anti-English
sentiment throughout. Only by an incident in the last few pages
are the title and sub-titles justified.

⸺ PROFIT AND LOSS; or, the Life of a Genteel Irish-American. Pp. 458. (N.Y.: _T. O’Kane_). 1873.

Purpose: to teach Catholic piety and to guard youth from
danger. The genteel Irish-American is Michael Mulrooney, who
was driven out of Ireland by the tyranny of the landlord class.
The first twenty-five pp. tell us of his troubles in Ireland.

=QUINLAN, May.=

⸺ IN THE DEVIL’S ALLEY. Pp. 262. (_Art and Book Co._). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. very cleverly and humorously by the Author. 1907.

Sketches of the lowest life in the East End of London, chiefly
among the poorest Irish. Told with sympathy, close observation,
and quiet humour. There is pathos too, but the Author never
strains it nor forces the note. _Sunt lachrimae rerum._
The Author is the dau. of Judge Quinlan, late of Victoria,
Australia.

=READ, Charles Anderson.= 1841-1878. Born near Sligo. Was for some years a merchant in Rathfriland, Co. Down. Went to London, 1863. Was an industrious and able writer, and a man full of enthusiastic admiration for Ireland, its people, and its literature. Produced numerous sketches, poems, short tales, and nine novels, the most notable of the latter being _Love’s Service_; but better known are his _Aileen Aroon_ and _Savourneen Dheelish_, of which the LONDON REVIEW said: “We are presented with a view of agrarian crime in its most revolting aspect, and there is no false glamour thrown around any of the characters. Many of the incidents are highly dramatic, while the dialogue is bright and forcible.” The above notice is taken from an article by Mr. Charles Gibbon in the _Cabinet of Irish Literature_, edited by Mr. Read himself.

⸺ SAVOURNEEN DHEELISH; or, One True Heart. 16mo. (LONDON: _Henderson_), 1_s._ [1869]. 1874, 7th ed.

First appeared in THE WEEKLY BUDGET. A melodramatic but finely
told story. The principal incident is the historic tragedy
utilised by Carleton in his “Wild Goose Lodge.” Especially
thrilling is the scene where Kate Costelloe gives the evidence
which she knows will bring her brother and her lover to the
gallows. Barney Fegan, a jovial pedlar, plays a conspicuous
part. The usual devices of evictions, murders, Whiteboys,
traitors, trials, secret caves, &c. Scenery well described:
brogue well done. The fair at Keady is a noteworthy piece of
description. Scene: the district round Dundalk.

⸺ AILEEN AROON; or, The Pride of Clonmore. (LONDON: _Henderson_). 1_s._ [1870.]. Sixth ed. _n.d._

First appeared in THE WEEKLY BUDGET. Garratt O’Neill is
falsely accused of murder. His sweetheart Aileen on her way to
Downpatrick to defend him is abducted by his enemy. Suspected
of infidelity, she is driven from her home, but is befriended
by Father Nugent, an unfrocked priest, and his Fenian band, who
lurk in the Mourne Mountains. After many thrilling episodes and
hairbreadth escapes the lovers are united at last. Sensational
but well-told, and containing some good descriptions.

=READE, Amos.=

⸺ NORAH MORIARTY; or, Revelations of Irish Life. (_Blackwood_). Two Vols. 1886.

“A romance bound up with the story of the Land League, its
rise ... in 1880, its development, and the outrages and bitter
sufferings endured by the victims.”—(_Baker_).

=READE, Mrs. R. H.=

⸺ PUCK’S HALL. Pp. 254. (BELFAST: _Charles W. Olley_). 1889.

Scene: Newcastle, Co. Down. A pleasant story, told in a
straightforward way, with good characterisation. By the same
Author:—_Milly Davidson_, _Dora_, _Silver Mill_, &c.

=REED, Talbot Baines.=

⸺ SIR LUDAR. Pp. 343. (_R.T.S._). Seven illustr. by Alfred Pearse. [1889]. Cheap reprints (_“Leisure Hour” Office_), 6_d._, 1910, and (_Boys’ Own Paper_). 1913.

Adventures of an English ’prentice boy in company with Sir
Ludar, who is a son of Sorley Boy MacDonnell of Dunluce
Castle, Co. Antrim. There is a constant succession of exciting
incidents. The retaking of Dunluce from the English is the
most noteworthy. The heroes are on board the Armada during
its fight with the English. The tone is not anti-Irish, but
occasionally unfair to Catholics. It is a book for boys.

The Author (1852-1893) was a son of Sir Chas. Reed, M.P.,
F.S.A., Deputy Governor of the Irish Society, and nephew of
John Anderson, the Belfast bibliographer. He had a great love
for Ireland and her people, and always delighted in visiting
her shores.

⸺ KILGORMAN. Pp. 420. (_Nelson_). Six illustr. (good). 1906.

Scene: mainly in Donegal. Relates adventures of Donegal
fisherboy, first at home, then in Paris during Reign of
Terror, then at battle of Camperdown, then in Dublin, where he
frequents meetings of United Irishmen and meets Lord Edward.
Standpoint: not anti-Irish, but hostile to aims of United
Irishmen. Full of exciting adventure. Juv.

=REID, Forrest.=

⸺ THE BRACKNELS: a Family Chronicle. Pp. 304. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1911.

This unpleasant and, we hope, abnormal family is that
of a self-made Belfast merchant. The book is a study in
temperaments; Mr. Bracknel himself, a harsh man, with little
humanness, without affection, except a certain regard for an
illegitimate child of past days; the daughter Amy, in love with
Rusk, the tutor, and ready to go to any lengths to win him; the
wilful, selfish, elder son; above all, Denis, the youngest,
morbid, dreamy, the victim of delusions, engaging in strange
pagan worship, yet with amiable traits. There is not a trace of
religion in the chronicle of this family.

⸺ FOLLOWING DARKNESS. Pp. 320. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1912.

A soul study in form of autobiography. The hero is a son of
a Co. Down schoolmaster. He is brought up amid uncongenial
people and in uncongenial circumstances, first amid the Mourne
Mountains, then in sordid Cromac St., Belfast. His soul
sickens with the dreariness of the education, and especially
of the religion that is imposed on him, and the father, a
hard, unresponsive man, is perversely blind to the genius (an
artistic and somewhat moody temperament) and aspirations of the
young man—with consequences almost fatal. He is thrown back on
himself. Hence intense introspection and then an outlet sought
in occult sciences. There is a love story, too, but it is of
minor importance. The book is but a fragment, and has no real
conclusion. The style is exceptionally good.

⸺ AT THE DOOR OF THE GATE. Pp. 332. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1915.

“One needs no knowledge of Belfast and its people to appreciate
nine-tenths of what Mr. Reid here describes; there can be
no question that his characters are true to life: the small
family at the combined post office and lending library; the
hardworking, clean, and grim Mrs. Seawright, her two sons
Martin and Richard, her adopted daughter Grace ... all this one
thoroughly appreciates as one admires the sustained skill with
which in a succession of small strokes Mr. Reid builds up his
admirable story.”—(TIMES LIT. SUPPL.).

=RHYS, Grace.= “Mrs. Rhys (_née_ Little) was born at Knockadoo, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, 1865. She is youngest daughter of J. Bennett Little, and married, in 1891, Ernest Rhys, the poet.... Her novels deal with Irish life, which she knows well, and are written with sympathetic insight, tenderness, and tragic power.”—(IRISH LIT.).

⸺ MARY DOMINIC. Pp. 296. (_Dent_). 1898.

The main theme is the seduction of a young peasant girl by the
son of the landlord, and the nemesis that overtook the seducer
after many years. The story is told with exceptional power and
pathos. There is no prurient description, unless one half-page
might be objected to on this score. The peasants are natural
and life-like, but there is something strangely repellant
in the pictures of the upper classes. There are incidents
bringing out the darker aspects of the land-war. There is no
anti-religious bias.

⸺ THE WOOING OF SHEILA. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ [1901]. Second ed., 1908. (N.Y.: _Holt_). 1.50.

A gentleman, from unnatural motives, deliberately brings up
his son as a common labourer. The boy falls in love with and
marries a peasant girl, whom he had saved from the pursuit of a
rascally young squire. On her marriage morning she learns that
her husband has killed her unworthy lover. She at once leaves
her husband, but a priest induces her to return, and the crime
is hushed up in a rather improbable manner. As in the Author’s
other books, there is a subtle charm of style, delicate
analysis of character, and fair knowledge of peasant life.

⸺ THE PRINCE OF LISNOVER. (_Methuen_). 1904.

Ireland in the early ’sixties. Has same qualities as _Mary
Dominic_. Devotion of the people to the old and dispossessed
“lord of the soil” is touchingly brought out. A pretty
girl-and-boy love story runs through the whole.

⸺ THE CHARMING OF ESTERCEL. Pp. 318. (_Dent_). 6_s._ 1913.

A love story of Ireland in the days of O’Neill and Essex. The
main interest lies in the story of how Estercel is brought to
love his cousin Sabia, and in the adventures of the former,
an O’Neill and the envoy of the great Hugh, in Dublin and in
Ulster. But the historical background is well painted and the
historical personages carefully studied. The hero’s wonderful
horse, Tamburlaine, is a strange and original “character”
in the piece, and there is a splendid description of how he
carried his master from Dublin home to the North. The Author
writes with sympathy for Ireland. The charm of the style
is enhanced by her sympathy with wild nature and delicate
perception of its sights and sounds.

=RHYS, Rt. Hon. Sir John, M.A., D.Litt.= B. Cardiganshire, 1840. Ed. Bangor and Oxford. Also at the Sorbonne, College de France, Heidelberg, Leipsic, and Göttingen. Prof. of Celtic at Oxford since 1877. Member of innumerable learned societies and royal commissions. He has read many valuable papers on Celtic subjects before the R.I.A. Publ. a long series of works on Celtic subjects, _e.g._, _Celtic Heathendom_, 1886.

⸺ CELTIC FOLK-LORE, Welsh and Manx. Two Vols. Pp. xlvi. + 718. (OXFORD: _Clarendon Press_). 10_s._ 1901.

Stories gathered partly by letter, partly _viva voce_,
classified and critically discussed. The group of ideas, he
concludes, connected with the fairies is drawn partly from
history and fact, partly from the world of imagination and
myth, the former part representing vague traditions of earlier
races. Many subsidiary questions are raised, _e.g._, magic, the
origin of druidism, certain aspects of the Arthurian legends,
&c. Ch. x. deals with Difficulties of the Folk-lorist; Ch. xi.
with Folk-lore Philosophy; Ch. xii. with Race in Folk-lore and
Myth. Throughout constant references are made to and frequent
parallels drawn with Irish folk-lore, _e.g._, the Cuchulainn
cycle.

=RIDDELL, Mrs.= _née_ =Charlotte E. Cowan=. Born at Carrickfergus, 1832. Published her first book 1858, since when she has written nearly forty novels. All of these are remarkably clever, and some have been very popular. They deal chiefly with social and domestic life among the Protestant upper and middle classes. The scene is laid in London, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Scotland, &c. Few deal with Ireland. We may mention _George Geith of Fen Court_ (1864), _City and Suburb_ (1861), _A Life’s Assize_ (1870), _Above Suspicion_ (1875), _Too Much Alone_, _Susan Drummond_, _Race for Wealth_, _Head of the Firm_. Her books are noteworthy for the intimate knowledge of the proceedings of law and the business world of London which they display. D. 1906.

⸺ MAXWELL DREWITT. [1865]. New illustr. ed., 1869. (_Arnold_).

A rather lengthy but well-told tale of adventures in Connemara,
including an old-fashioned election (time, 1854) and a
well-described trial for robbery on the Drogheda and Dundalk
Railway. The plot is well constructed and the characters,
mainly of the landlord class, sympathetically depicted. The
peasantry are faithfully, if somewhat humorously, delineated.
Dr. Sheen, the dispensary doctor, and his patients are well
pourtrayed.

⸺ A STRUGGLE FOR FAME. 1883. Several eds.

Partly autobiographical. Describes a young girl and her father
sailing from Belfast with her MS. to win her way in London. Her
experiences of publishers and love affairs.

⸺ BERNA BOYLE. Pp. 443. (_Macmillan_). 6_s._ [1884]. 1900, &c.

A love story of the Co. Down about fifty years ago. Deals
mainly with the trials of a young lady, who suffers much from
suitors with disagreeable relatives. The characters are mainly
drawn from a rather uninspiring and unsympathetic type of
Ulster folk. Perhaps the most striking feature is the character
of Berna’s mother, a vulgar, pushful, foolish woman. There is
humour not a little in the situations and characters. The story
suffers from its great length.

⸺ THE BANSHEE’S WARNING, and Other Tales. (LONDON: _Macqueen_). 6_d._ Paper. 1903.

Six stories, four having some concern with Ireland. The first
tells how the Banshee goes to London to warn the scapegrace
son of an Irish family, who is a clever surgeon, yet always
plunged in debt. It is a study of a strange personality. “A
Vagrant Digestion” humorously relates the journeyings of the
hypochondriacal Vicar of Rathdundrum in search of health.
“Mr. Mabbot’s Fright” and “So Near, or the Pity of It” both
illustrate the honesty and the proper pride of the Irish. The
latter is pathetic. The former is humorous, is full of life and
movement, and contains fine descriptions of the coast-drive
from Belfast to Larne in the old days, and of an exciting
run-away.

=RIDDALL, Walter.=

⸺ HUSBAND AND LOVER. Pp. 304. (_Swift_). 6_s._ 1913.

The love affairs of a London journalist who comes to Ireland,
marries Doris, and makes love to Laura.—(T. LIT. SUPPL.). The
Author, who was the second son of the late Dean Riddall of
Belfast, died in 1913, at the age of forty.

=“RITA”; Mrs. Desmond Humphreys.= Author of a great many novels: Mudie’s list enumerates 58, amongst them _Peg the Rake_ and _Kitty the Rag_, both introducing Irish elements, and _The Masqueraders_ describing the wanderings and social experiences of two Irish singers.

⸺ THE SIN OF JASPER STANDISH. Pp. 342. (_Constable_). 1901.

Scene: one of the midland counties. The story is founded on
the Newtonstewart, Co. Tyrone, tragedy, where a scoundrelly
inspector of police murders the local bank-manager, then
himself conducts the investigation, but is unmasked and brought
to justice by the English heroine and her housekeeper. A
morbid and sensational type of book, with not a few traces
of religious and national bias. The English characters are
belauded, the Irish for the most part represented as fools.
There is much “stage-Irish” dialogue.

⸺ A GREY LIFE. Pp. 347. (_Stanley Paul_). 6_s._ 1913.

Scene: a boarding-house in Bath kept by three reduced ladies,
with whom Rosaleen O’Hara passes (in the later 1870’s) the
three or four years covered by the story. The central figure is
the Chevalier Theophrastus O’Shaughnessy, a charming, scholarly
man, with sad stories of his past to tell.

=ROBINSON, F. Mabel.=

⸺ THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. Two Vols. (_Vizetelly_). 1888.

Scene: Dublin, except for a chapter at Dromore and a visit to
London. Deals with the famous agrarian “Plan of Campaign” in
the eighties, viewed with Nationalist sympathies. Religion
is not discussed. A number of men and women of the educated
classes meet to talk politics. They go to see evictions, and
vivid but heartrending pictures of these are drawn. A bad
landlord is killed by a gentleman named Considine. The latter’s
friend, Talbot, helps him to escape, but his daughter Stella
dies of grief. Considine, who is an unbeliever, shoots himself.
The story is a good one and skilfully worked out.

=ROCHE, Hon. Alexis.=

⸺ JOURNEYINGS WITH JERRY THE JARVEY. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ 1915.

Two of these sketches first appeared in the CORNHILL. “One
of the most mirth-provoking collection of sketches that has
appeared for many a long day. There is a laugh in every page
and a roar in every chapter. Yet it is all pure comedy:
only once does the Author descend to farce.... a delightful
book.”—(I.B.L.). The Author, son of 1st Baron Fermoy, was born
in 1853, and died in 1915.

=ROCHE, Regina Maria.= 1765-1845. A once celebrated novelist. For many years before her death she lived in retirement at Waterford. Wrote also _The Vicar of Lansdowne_ (1793), _Maid of the Hamlet_, _The Monastery of St. Columba_, &c., &c.

⸺ THE CHILDREN OF THE ABBEY. Four Vols. 12 mo. [1798]. (_Mason_). Twelfth ed., 1835; others 1863, 1867.

A sentimental story of a very old-fashioned type. The
personages are chiefly earls and marquises, the heroines have
names like Amanda, Malvina, &c. Though in this novel Irish
places (Enniskillen, Dublin, Bray) are mentioned, the book does
not seem to picture any reality of Irish life. This is still
on Mudie’s list. It was republ. in U.S.A. at Hartford, Exeter,
Philadelphia, and N.Y.

⸺ THE MUNSTER COTTAGE BOY. Four Vols. Pp. 1195. (LONDON: _Newman_). 1820.

A little girl, Fidelia, grows up without knowing who her
parents are. Bad people try to exploit her: a servant named
Connolly tries to save her, but she falls from one misfortune
into another, till finally she meets her father, and finds
herself an heiress. Interminable conversations and intricacies
of episode. A multitude of characters, who are for the most
part English in Ireland. No humour, nor style.

⸺ THE BRIDAL OF DUNAMORE. Pp. 888. (LONDON: _Newman_). 1823.

A character study of Rosalind Glenmorlie, beautiful but haughty
and ambitious, and of the misery she caused to many and finally
to herself. It is tragedy almost all through. The scene in
“Dunamore,” on E. coast of Ireland. The character of the
heroine is overdrawn and exaggerated, like most of the Author’s
_dramatis personæ_.

⸺ THE TRADITION OF THE CASTLE; or, Scenes in the Emerald Isle. Four Vols. Pp. 1414. 1824.