Chapter XVIII: Part I: tells how a peasant girl is, after a week’s (7)

Fragments of the Author’s peculiar philosophy of life conveyed
in odds and ends of stories and sketches. Some are pure fancy,
some are very closely observed bits of real life; some are
humorous, with a kind of sardonic humour; some whimsical,
some border on pathos. Many deal with various phases of
married life. Little poems are sandwiched between the tales.
The book is full of aphorisms, indeed the style is a riot
of curious metaphor, flights of fancy, unexpected turns of
phrase. The last piece (pp. 277-348) consists of a series of
disquisitions by an old gentleman in the style of the Autocrat
of the Breakfast Table. An Irish flavour is noticeable at
frequent intervals. The idiom (not the brogue) of Anglo-Irish
conversation is well reproduced.

⸺ THE DEMI-GODS. Pp. 280. (_Macmillan_). 5_s._ 1914.

The travels through Ireland of Patsy McCann, tinker and general
rascal, and his daughter Mary, in company with three angels,
become tinkers for the nonce. Patsy is a very human and a very
real tinker, an ugly specimen of a disreputable class. The
wanderings of this strange company form a thin thread on which
is strung a medley of strange fancies, wayward comments, scraps
of very excellent description, and glimpses of low life in
its most sordid aspects (_e.g._, the drab Eileen Cooley, who
appears at intervals). There is an effort to picture not only
the outward doings, experiences, and sensations of the tramps,
but also their outlook, such as it is, upon life, their makings
of a philosophy, and the morality of the roads.

=STEUART, John A.= Author (born 1861) of _A Millionaire’s Daughter_, _Self Exiled_, _In the Day of Battle_, _The Minister of State_, _Wine on the Lees_, _The Eternal Quest_, _A Son of Gad_, _The Rebel Wooing_, &c., &c. Was born in Perthshire; lived in Ireland, America, and England. Edited PUBLISHERS’ CIRCULAR, 1896-1900.

⸺ KILGROOM. Pp. 228. (_Low_). 6_s._ and 2_s._ 6_d._ [1890]. 1900.

The interest of the story turns on incidents of the Land War
in a southern county. The Author takes the popular side, and
paints the evils of landlordism in the darkest colours. Most of
the characters are humble folk, including an amusing Scotchman,
Sandy M’Tear. The story tells how a thirst for vengeance,
engendered by oppression, takes possession of the young
peasant, Ned Blake, almost stifling his love for his betrothed
and ruining his life.

=STEVENSON, JOHN.= Is a member of the printing and publishing firm of McCaw, Stevenson & Orr, of Belfast. He made his first hit with _Pat McCarty, Farmer of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting_ (1903), in part reprinted from THE PEN, a magazine run by the employes of his company.

⸺ A BOY IN THE COUNTRY. Pp. 312. (_Arnold_). 5_s._ Illustr. by W. Arthur Fry. 1913.

A lad sent for his health to the care of an aunt in Co. Antrim
tells his experiences and observations, his thoughts and
dreams, and he tells them charmingly. Stories and anecdotes of
the lives of the folk among whom he lives, told with insight
and sympathy.

=STEWART, Agnes M.=

⸺ GRACE O’HALLORAN. (_Gill._ N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60 net. [1857]. 1884, &c.

Sub-title: “Ireland and Its Peasantry.” “Another of A.
Stewart’s pious little stories.... The reader will fail to
discover much originality or force; but in these days it is no
small praise to say there is nothing to condemn.”—(D.R.). Miss
S. wrote a great number of stories between 1846 and 1887. All
are highly moral in aim and tone, a series of them having for
titles the various moral virtues.

⸺ FLORENCE O’NEILL; or, The Siege of Limerick. 1871.

Also publ. under title _Florence O’Neill_, or, The Rose of
Saint Germain.

⸺ THE LIMERICK VETERAN; or, The Foster Sisters. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60 net. 1873.

=STEWART, Miss E. M.=

⸺ ALL FOR PRINCE CHARLIE; or, The Irish Cavalier. Pp. 270. (_Duffy_). 1_s._ Very cheap paper and print. _n.d._

The ’45 from a strongly Catholic and Jacobite standpoint.
The story opens in an old castle in Bantry Bay, where the
hero and heroine meet before the former goes off to fight for
Prince Charlie. Various adventures during the raid on England
and the retreat, and a complicated plot turning on the close
resemblance between the hero and a twin brother, supposed dead,
but who plays the traitor and the spy. All is well in the end.
Some glimpses of penal laws at work. A little comic relief is
afforded by the talk of Paddy O’Rafferty. Dialect poor.

=STEWART, Rev. J.=

⸺ THE KILLARNEY POOR SCHOLAR. Pp. 164. 16mo. (LONDON). [1845]. Third ed., 1846. New ed., 1866.

Sub-t.:—“Comprising the most remarkable features of the
enchanting scenery of the Irish lakes, interspersed with
sketches of real character.” In pref. Author claims thorough
knowledge of places and people described. His object is to
impress a high moral tone upon the mind. “A moral is deduced
from every incident: a moral established by every dialogue.”
This aim is fully carried out in the little story, which is
merely a peg whereon to hang a moral, and is very sentimental.

=STOKER, Bram.= 1847-1912. B. in Dublin. Ed. T.C.D., where he had a distinguished career. Entered Civil Service and was called to the Bar, but subsequently for twenty-seven years secretary to Sir Henry Irving. Wrote also _Dracula_, _Miss Betty_, _The Mystery of the Sea_, _Snowbound_, &c., &c.

⸺ THE SNAKE’S PASS. Pp. 372. (_Collier_). 1_s._ New ed. [1891]. (N.Y.: _Harper_). 0.40. 1909.

A tale written around the strange phenomenon of a moving bog.
Scene: the Mayo coast, which is finely described. Hidden
treasure, prophetic dreams, attempted murder, and much love and
sentiment are bound up with the story. The sentiment is pure
and even lofty. There is no bigotry nor bias, and no vulgar
stage-Irishism. Andy Sullivan, the carman, is drawn with much
humour and kindliness, but we cannot consider “Father Pether” a
true type of Irish priest.

=STOKES, Whitley.= Ed.

⸺ THE DESTRUCTION OF DÁ DERGA’S HOSTEL. (PARIS: _Bouillon_). 1902.

“Conary becomes king on condition that he abide by certain
bonds (_geasa_) imposed on him by his fairy kinsfolk. Having
transgressed these conditions, he comes to his death in a
great affray with outlaws, who attack the hostel. Portents
and marvels are characteristic of the story from beginning to
end.”—(_Baker_, 2).

=“STRADLING, Matthew,”= _see_ =MAHONY, Martin F.=

=STRAHAN, Samuel A. K., M.D.=

⸺ THE RESIDENT MAGISTRATE. (LONDON: _Alexander & Shepherd_). 1_s._ 1888.

A tale of the “Jubilee Coercion days.” The leading character is
founded on Captain Plunket of “Don’t hesitate to shoot” fame.
With the doings of this personage (which look like clippings
from the STAR newspaper of those days) is mingled the story
of a persecuted heroine suffering from an uncommon form of
mania (in which the Author was a specialist). Dr. Strahan was
a Belfast man. The materials of the story are handled, we
think, with but little skill. Another of his stories, _Dead yet
Speaketh_ (Arrowsmith), was founded on the sudden death in his
chambers in the Temple of an Irish fellow-student of the Author.

=STRAIN, E. H.=

⸺ A MAN’S FOES. Pp. 467. (_Ward, Lock_). 6_s._ Illustr. by A. Forestier. (N.Y.: _New Amsterdam Book Co._). 0.50. [1895.] Three Vols.

A strongly conceived and vigorously written historical tale
of the siege of Derry. Point of view aggressively English and
Protestant. The personages in the story often express bitterly
anti-Catholic sentiments, but only such as may reasonably
be supposed to have been freely expressed at the period.
The Author, a Scottish lady resident in Ayrshire, has also
published four other works of fiction.

=“SWAN, Annie S.”; Mrs. Burnett Smith.= B. Mountskip, Goresbridge, N.B. Ed. Edinburgh. Has written a great many novels. Resides in England or at Kinghorn, Scotland.—(WHO’S WHO).

⸺ A SON OF ERIN. Pp. 344. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ Six illustr. 1899 and 1907.

Scene: first Edinburgh, then chiefly Co. Wicklow. Period: just
before retirement of Butt and rise of Parnell, who is one of
the personages of the tale. The interest turns on the discovery
of the identity of a child abandoned in Edinburgh when an
infant. No love interest. Titles of over sixty of her novels
will be found in Mudie’s list.

=SYKES, Jessica S. C.=

⸺ THE M’DONNELLS. Pp. 299. (_Heinemann_). 6_s._ 1905.

Aims at presenting picture of early Victorian manners and
morals as seen in the life of this (rather unattractive)
family, of Irish origin, but living in England, and in their
surroundings. It was a period lacking in ideals and unstirred
by new ideas, artistic, literary, or other. The Author paints
it stupid, gross, and material, and seems to sum it up as
“humbug” (from a review in the ATHENÆUM).

Lord Charles Beresford, in a letter to the writer (see Pref.),
acknowledges the book as “a true picture of English and Irish
life in the upper circles of society five and forty years
ago,” and that “it explains the idiocrasies (_sic_) of the
Irish people, both Nationalist and Orange, and gives a clear
explanation of the real causes of the unceasing discontent and
strife existing in our sister isle.” “I have tried to give
a description of the condition ... to which English females
of position were reduced by a wave of Evangelical cant and
exaggerated morality....”—(Pref.). Has written also _Algernon
Casterton_ and _Mark Alston_.

=“SYNAN, A.,”= _see_ =CLERY, A. E.=

=TAUNTON, M.=

⸺ THE LAST OF THE CATHOLIC O’MALLEYS. (_Washbourne._ N.Y.: _Kenedy_).

Scene: Western Mayo, about 1798, but no historical events are
introduced. An unpretentious little story, telling how Grace
is married at fifteen against her will to a disreputable young
man. He grows fond of her, and dies penitent three years after.
Their child is stolen by a too fond nurse. The child grows up
and joins the navy. Years after, Grace, who has married a naval
officer, gets her sailor son back.

=TAYLOR, Mary Imlay.=

⸺ MY LADY CLANCARTY. Pp. 298. (_Gay & Bird_). Illus. by A. B. Stephens. 1905.

“Being the true story of the Earl of Clancarty and Lady
Elizabeth Spencer.” Donough McCarthy, a Jacobite nobleman,
married in childhood to wealthy heiress of English Whig family,
does not meet his bride again till many years later, and then
in strange circumstances. Scene: England in days of William
III., with glimpses of Ireland in the background. Appears to be
founded on Tom Taylor’s play, _Clancarty_.

=TEMPLETON, Herminie.=

⸺ DARBY O’GILL AND THE GOOD PEOPLE. (N.Y.: _McClure_). 1.50. 1903.

=TENCH, Mary F. A.= Resides in London, and writes a good deal for the periodicals.

⸺ AGAINST THE PIKES. Pp. 357. (_Russell_). _n.d._ (1903).

How the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children to
the third and fourth generation. Phil O’Brien, returning to
Ireland after long years of sin and suffering in Australia,
finds his first love unchanged in heart—only to see her taken
from him by death. He foregoes for her sake revenge on the man
who had wrecked his life, and dies to save his enemy. Though
the characters are Irish, there is little about Irish life
(nothing about pikes). The whole book is very sad, the pathos
of the close is painful, “_navrant_.” By the same Author:
_Where the Surf Breaks_, _A Prince from the Great Never-Never_,
&c.

=THACKERAY, William Makepeace.= The great novelist paid only one visit to Ireland (1842), the immediate outcome of which was his _Irish Sketch Book_ (1843). The tone of this book gave great offence to Irishmen generally. Sir Samuel Ferguson severed his connection with the DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE because Lever, then editor, accepted Thackeray’s dedication. He could speak of the Young Irelanders only in terms of ridicule—witness his ballad “The Battle of Limerick”—though he was a personal friend of Gavan Duffy. He derived some of the incidents of _Barry Lyndon_ from the chap-book, _Life of Freney_, which he read one night in Galway. Many of the characters in his greater novels are Irish, _e.g._, “The O’Mulligan,” said to be founded on W. J. O’Connell; “Capt. Shandon,” whose original was Dr. Maginn; “Capt. Costigan” and his famous daughter, “the Fotheringay,” said to be suggested by the dramatic triumph of Miss O’Neill, afterwards Lady Becher. “Ye hate us, Mr. Thackeray, ye hate the Irish,” said to him Anthony Trollope’s old Irish coachman. “Hate you? God help me, when all I ever loved on earth was Irish!” and his eyes filled with tears.—(_Trollope_). His wife was Irish.

⸺ THE MEMOIRS OF BARRY LYNDON, ESQ. [1844]. Many editions in all styles.

The autobiography of a blackguard and a cad, a compound of
every vice—meanness, mendacity, licentiousness, heartless
selfishness. Add to these swagger, vulgarity, and a fire-eating
audacity, which, however, is always on the safe side, and you
have the portrait of the hero as painted by himself. All the
characters are vicious or contemptible or both, the English
and other foreigners no better than the Irish. Lyndon (real
name Redmond Barry) belongs to an ancient and decayed family,
once aristocratic. The story tells how he fights a duel at
home in Ballybarry, falls in with swindlers in Dublin, deserts
from the army, serves under Frederick the Great in the Seven
Years’ War, becomes a professional but aristocratic gamester,
marries (after a desperate struggle) the rich Lady Lyndon,
blazes through a brief season in Dublin (1771), worries his
wife into her grave, and finally runs through all his wealth.
There is some humour in places, but it is grim and sardonic,
and does not relieve the picture. Moral (see footnote near the
close)—“Do not as many rogues succeed in life as honest men?
More fools than men of talent?” Founded in part on the strange
marriage of Andrew Bowes and the Countess of Strathmore at end
of eighteenth century.

=THOMAS, Edward.=

⸺ CELTIC STORIES. Pp. 128. (OXFORD: _The Clarendon Press_). 1911.

“The Boyhood of Cuhoolin,” “Father and Son,” “The Battle of the
Companions” (C. and Ferdia), “The Death of C.,” “Deirdre and
Naisi,” “The Palace of the Quicken Trees,” “The Land of Youth.”
The rest (pp. 82-end) are Welsh tales. Told very plainly
and briefly, yet not dully. The diction is quite modern and
prosaic. The grotesquer folk-lore elements are not excluded.
The Author has also publ. _Norse Stories_ and many other works
on a variety of subjects.

=THOMPSON, E. Skeffington.= Was a granddaughter of John Foster, last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. She was an ardent Nationalist. About 1889 she and her sister Mrs. Rae founded the Southwark Junior Irish Literary Society.

⸺ MOY O’BRIEN. Pp. 300. (_Gill_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1887]. New ed., 1914.

Deals with the politics of the day, but not to the neglect of
the story, which shows considerable literary power, though
containing but little incident. Strongly patriotic in tone.
There is no religious bias. Treats of social and political life
in Ireland thirty or forty years ago. Ends with many happy
marriages. First appeared in U.S.A. in HARPER’S (IRISH MONTHLY).

=THOMSON, C. L.=

⸺ THE CELTIC WONDER WORLD. Pp. 155. (_Horace Marshall_). 1902.

No. 2 of the _Romance Readers_. Irish, Welsh, and Breton
stories edited for children. Very pretty and imaginative
illustr. by E. Connor. The tales are taken from good
sources—Whitley Stokes, Standish O’Grady, Crofton Croker,
“Atlantis,” O’Curry, the Mabinogion, &c. Contains “Deirdre,”
“Ossian in the Land of Youth,” Cuchulainn stories, &c., told in
simple but not childish language.

=THURNEYSEN, Rudolf.=

⸺ SAGEN AUS DEM ALTEN IRLAND. Pp. 152. Demy 8vo. (BERLIN: _Wiegandt & Grieben_). 1901.

Short introd., then very briefly (in German, of course) the
chief Irish sagas—the Courtships of Etain and of Fraoch,
Mesgedra, Bricriu, episodes from the Cuchulainn cycle, the
birth of Conachar, the Vision of MacConglinne, &c.

=THURSTON, E. Temple.= His novels are for the most part a series of studies or rather pamphlets on the action and influence of the Catholic Church on human nature. His conclusions are usually hostile to that Church. His writings give constant evidence of misconception of Catholic doctrine. Incidentally Irish types and scenes are introduced, and the writer is fond of comments on Irish life and character. Moreover, his first four books aim at “brutal” realism, or naturalism. His recent book, _The City of Beautiful Nonsense_, is a reaction to Idealism. Besides his Irish novels, noticed below, he has written _Sally Bishop_, _The Evolution of Katherine_, _The Realist_, and other tales (more or less anti-Christian in tendency), and _Mirage_.

⸺ THE APPLE OF EDEN. Pp. 323. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1905.

An argument against the celibacy of the clergy, conveyed in
the story of a young priest—his childhood, inexperience, life
at Maynooth, first experiences in confessional. Here he meets
the woman whom he had loved. He tells her that, but for the
fact that she is married, he would break all ties for her sake.
There is much study of Irish life (in Waterford), but the
Author has nothing good to say about anything Irish, country
doctors and priests being especially attacked.

⸺ TRAFFIC. Pp. 452. (_Duckworth_). 1906.

Scene: Waterford and London. Has been well described by the
ATHENÆUM as a pamphlet in guise of a story, the thesis being
that the refusal of the right of divorce in the Catholic Church
may lead in practice to results disastrous to morality. This is
conveyed in the story of a girl who leaves an unworthy Irish
husband, and goes to London, where, being obliged to refuse
an offer of marriage from an honourable Protestant, she takes
to the streets. Contains strange misconceptions of Catholic
doctrine and morality.

⸺ THE GARDEN OF RESURRECTION. Pp. 307. (_Chapman & Hall_). 6_s._ [1911]. 1912.

Sub-t.: “Being the love story of an ugly man”—viz., Bellairs,
a confirmed bachelor, who tells his own story. Overhears in
restaurant conversation of a young man, from which he learns
that the latter is about to marry a young West Indian girl
named Clarissa, but cares only for her money. Bellairs is
struck with pity for her, and determines to tell Clarissa of
the worthlessness of Harry. He goes to the W. of Ireland, where
Harry had left her in charge of two maiden aunts. She will not
believe him, and goes to London with Harry. He betrays and
deserts her: she comes back forlorn to Bellairs, and they are
married. The writer has a keen feeling for nature, and there
is much description. The character study is careful and the
style is full of pleasant whimsicalities. The “Cruikshank” and
“Bellwattle” of _The Patchwork Papers_ reappear here.

⸺ THIRTEEN. Pp. 279. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1912.

Short stories reproduced from magazines. Three of the thirteen
are little bits of Irish—Wexford—life:—“The Little Sisters of
Mercy,” “An Idyll of Science,” and “Holy Ann.” The rest deal
with London. There is sentimentality and mannerism, but the
literary craftsmanship is very good.

⸺ THE PASSIONATE CRIME: a Tale of the Faerie. Pp. 311. 6_s._ (_Chapman & Hall_). 1915.

“The story of a strange murder—the murderer a poet—solitary
among the romantic atmosphere of the lonely Irish
hills.”—(TIMES LIT. SUP.).

=THURSTON, Katherine Cecil.= B. Cork in 1875. Dau. of Paul Madden, a friend of Parnell, and at one time nationalist mayor of Cork. She began to write only in 1903, and married E. Temple Thurston, _q.v._ Died at Cork, 1911. In this short period appeared six or seven novels. Of _John Chilcote, M.P._, her greatest success, it is estimated that 200,000 copies were sold in America alone.

⸺ THE GAMBLER. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._, and 6_d._ _n.d._ (1906). (N.Y.: _Harper_). 1.50.

A psychological study of an Irish woman’s character. Treats of
Protestant upper middle class society, but questions of creed
do not enter into the book. The scene for about the first third
of the book is laid in Ireland, in an out-of-the-way country
district. Then it shifts to Venice, and afterwards to London.
In both places the heroine moves in a smart set, whose empty
life and petty follies are well drawn. There is a problem of
pathetic interest centering in two ill-assorted marriages. The
part about Irish life, showing the foolish pride of some of the
Irish gentry, is skilfully and sympathetically done.

⸺ THE FLY ON THE WHEEL. Pp. 327. (_Blackwood_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _Dodd & Mead_). 1.50. 1908.

Middle class Catholic society in Waterford, pictured, without
satire, in its exterior aspects by one quite familiar with
them. The heroine is an impulsive, self-willed girl in revolt
against conventionality. With her Stephen Carey, a middle-aged
man, conventionally married, falls in love and is loved in
return. The theme on the whole is treated with restraint,
yet there are passionate scenes. The complication is ended
by the intervention of a priest, whose character is very
sympathetically drawn. The end of all is the suicide of the
girl.

=THYNNE, Robert.=

⸺ RAVENSDALE. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). 1873.

An attempt to represent the men and motives of the Emmet
insurrection. Point of view Unionist. Free from caricature,
vulgarity, patois, and conventional local colour. Scene at
first in England, but mainly Dublin and Co. Wicklow. Deals with
fortunes of a family named Featherstone—loyalists, with one
exception, Leslie, who is a friend of Emmet. Michael Dwyer,
Emmet, Lord Kilwarden, &c., figure in the tale. Love, hatred,
murder, incidents of 1803, Emmet’s trial, escape of Leslie and
his ultimate restoration keep up the interest to the end, when
the real murderer confesses.

⸺ TOM DELANY. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). [1873]. 1876.

Begins with sale, in Encumbered Estates Court, of Mrs.
Delany’s property in the West. The family then emigrate to
Melbourne, where the rest of the story takes place. Most of
the characters, however, are Irish, from Sergeant Doolan to
Mr. Brabazon. There are various love-affairs, ending some
brightly, others sadly; and there are pictures of life in the
gold-diggings. Eventually the estate is restored, and the
family comes back to Ireland.

⸺ STORY OF A CAMPAIGN ESTATE. Pp. 429. (_Long_). 6_s._ Several editions. 1899.

A tale of the Land League and the Plan of Campaign, written
from the landlord’s point of view. The estate is placed near
the Curragh of Kildare. The chief characters are nearly all
drawn from the Protestant middle and upper classes. There is
also a fanatical Land League priest, and a peacemaking one, of
whom a favourable portrait is drawn. “More cruel,” says the
hero, “more selfish, more destructive than our fathers’ loins
is the little finger of this unwritten law of the land—this
juggernaut before which the people bow, and are crushed.” The
question is ably argued out in many places in the book. The
Author seems to identify the Land League with the worst secret
societies, such as the Invincibles. The tone is not violent;
there is no caricaturing, and no brogue.

⸺ IRISH HOLIDAYS. Pp. 317. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1898, 1906, &c.

Story of an Englishman who goes down to spend his holidays
with the Rev. John Good, Curate of Coolgreany, somewhere in
the Bog of Allen, six miles from Birr and six from Banagher.
Chiefly concerned, apart from a few sporting incidents, with
aspects of agrarian agitation. Traditional English Conservative
standpoint, accentuated by ignorance of Irish history and
present conditions, and by ludicrous misconceptions. Fanciful
descriptions of moonlighting, in which the peasantry appear as
a mixture of fools and ruffians. But little humour, and that
unconscious. No objectionable matter from religious or moral
standpoint.

⸺ BOFFIN’S FIND. Pp. 324. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1899 and 1906.

An exciting tale of Australian life in the fifties. One of the
characters is a stage-Irishman of the earlier Lever type, who
in one chapter relates his experiences with the Ribbonmen.

⸺ JOHN TOWNLEY. Pp. 346. (_Drane_). 1901.

A political novel, “the last of a trilogy of Irish
disaffection.”—(Pref.). J. T. is an Anglican clergyman who
becomes a Catholic and, later, a priest. He comes to Ireland,
where he finds the priests immersed in politics and using
the confessional for political purposes. He is involved
in circumstances of a tragic kind, and to escape from a
disagreeable situation he goes to S. Africa, where he reverts
to Protestantism. Dwells much on boycotting, moonlighting and
murder. Describes the Phœnix Park murders, the subsequent
trial, and the murder of the informer. The interest is
exclusively political.

=TOTTENHAM, G. L.=

⸺ TERENCE McGOWAN, the Irish Tenant. Two Vols. (_Smith, Elder_). 1870.

Depicts, from the landlord’s point of view, the land struggle
in the sixties. This view-point is, in general, that “poor
backward, barbarous, benighted Ireland” owed whatever good it
possessed to the landlord class: the influence of the priest
was evil: and Ireland’s troubles due mainly to the lawlessness
and unreasonableness of the people and the weakness of the
government. But the writer is not without knowledge of the
people, and his pictures of life are probably true enough
in the main. The story is well told, and the love story of
Terence and Kathleen O’Hara and their sad fate is feelingly
related. The book brings out well the evil results of the rule
of a thoroughly unsympathetic landlord in the person of the
English Mr. Majoribanks. An idea is given of how elections were
conducted at the time. This Author wrote also _Harry Egerton_,
_Harcourt_, and other novels.

=TOWNSHEND, Dorothea.=

⸺ THE CHILDREN OF NUGENTSTOWN and their Dealings with the Sidhe.[14] Pp. 176. (_Nutt_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Eight good illustr. by Ruth Cobb. 1911.

The young Nugents, two boys and a girl, go to visit their Aunt
in her tumbledown old family place near Cork. The children get
into touch with the fairies, and as a result family papers are
recovered and fortune smiles once more on the Nugents.

[14] i.e., Fairies.

=“TRAVERS, Coragh,”= _see_ =CRAWFORD, Mary S.=

=TRENCH, W. Stewart.= 1808-1872. Was land agent in Ireland to the Marquess of Lansdowne, the Marquess of Bath, and Lord Digby. Owing to his very admirable character he came to be respected by the people. His opinion of Irish character was very high. His views will be found set forth more fully in his _Realities of Irish Life_.

⸺ IERNE. (_Longmans_). Two Vols. 1871.

“A study of agrarian crime ... in which the Author used
material collected for a history of Ireland, which he refrained
from publishing owing to the feeling occasioned by the
controversy over the Irish Land Bill. He endeavours ... to
show the causes of the obstinate resistance by the Irish to
measures undertaken for their benefit, and to show the method
of cure.”—(_Baker_).

=TROLLOPE, Anthony.= 1815-1882. Lived in Ireland, 1841-1859, at Banagher and at Clonmel. Finished in Ireland his first two novels, _The MacDermotts_ (1844), and _The Kellys and O’Kellys_ (1848), both failures with the public. He claims to have known the people, and was sympathetic but anti-nationalist. It would be out of place here to dwell on the place in English literature of the Author of _Barchester Towers_ and _The Warden_ and _Orley Farm_, and the rest. An admirable contemporary article on his novels will be found in DUBLIN REVIEW, 1872, Vol. 71, p. 393. The following deserves quotation: “This Englishman, keenly observant, painstaking, absolutely sincere and unprejudiced, with a lynx-like clearness of vision, and a power of literal reproduction of which his clerical and domestic novels, remarkable as they exhibit it, do not furnish such striking examples, writes a story as true to the saddest and heaviest truths of Irish life, as racy of the soil, as rich with the peculiar humour, the moral features, the social oddities, the subtle individuality of the far west of Ireland as George Eliot’s novels are true to the truths of English life.”

⸺ THE MACDERMOTTS OF BALLYCLORAN. (_Lane_). 1_s._ [1844]. 1909.

Scene: Co. Leitrim. Chief characters: the members of a
broken-down Catholic county family. Miss MacDermott is engaged
to a Sub-Inspector of police. This latter, because of certain
difficulties that stand in the way of their marriage, attempts
to elope with her. Her brother comes on the scene, and there
is an affray, in which the Sub-Inspector is killed. Young
MacDermott is tried and publicly hanged. This is the mere
outline. More interesting is the background of Irish rural
life, seen in its comic and quaint aspect, by an observant and
not wholly unsympathetic Englishman. The portrait of the grand
old Father John M’Grath is most life-like and engaging, but
the pictures of low life in the village and among the illicit
stills is vulgar in tone and the humour somewhat coarse. The
book is spoken of by a competent critic, Sir G. O. Trevelyan,
as in some respects the Author’s best. The Author himself
considers this his best plot. It has been spoken of as “one of
the most melancholy books ever written.”

⸺ THE KELLYS AND THE O’KELLYS. (_Chapman & Hall_). [1848]. New ed., 1907. (_Lane_). 1_s._

Scene: Dunmore, Co. Galway, at the time of O’Connell’s trial,
1844. Mainly a love story of the upper classes. Some clever
portraits, _e.g._, Martin Kelly, the Widow Kelly, and the
hero, Frank O’Kelly, Lord Ballindine. Picture of hard-riding,
hard-drinking, landlord class. A much more cheerful story than
the preceding. It is fresh and genuinely humorous, and the
human interest is very strong. The seventh London ed. appeared
in 1867.

⸺ CASTLE RICHMOND. Pp. 474. (_Harper, Ward, Lock_). 2_s._ [1860]. Fifth London ed., 1867. Still in print.

Scene: Co. Cork during the Famine years, 1847, and following,
with which it deals fully. Tale of two old Irish families.
The plot is commonplace enough but redeemed by great skill in
the treatment, by admirable delineation of character, and by
the drawing of the background. Absolutely cool and free from
partisanship, he yet draws such a picture of those dreadful
times as, in days to come, it will be difficult to accept as
free from exaggeration. It is a graphic and terrible picture.
The noble character of Owen Fitzgerald is finely drawn. There
are touches of pleasant humour and of satire.

⸺ PHINEAS FINN, the Irish Member. (_Bell_). 1866.

⸺ PHINEAS REDUX. (_Bell_). 1874.

A study of political personalities. The scene is London, and
the story is little, if at all, concerned with Ireland.

⸺ THE LAND LEAGUERS. Three Vols. (_Chatto & Windus_). 1883.

Story of an English Protestant family who buy a property
and settle in Galway. The book was never finished, and has,
perhaps, little interest as a novel. But the life and incidents
of the period are well rendered, notably the trials of people
who are boycotted. Much sympathy with the people is displayed
by the Author, and, on the whole, fair views of the faults and
misunderstandings on both sides are expressed. The plot turns
on the enmity of a peasant towards his landlord, whom he tries
to injure in every way. The landlord’s little son is the only
witness against the peasant. The child is murdered for telling
what he knows. There is some harsh criticism of Catholic
priests.

=TROTTER, John Bernard.= 1775-1818. Of a Co. Down family, and brother of E. S. Ruthven, M.P. for Dublin. Ed. T.C.D.; B.A., 1795. Barrister, and private secretary to Charles James Fox. Died in great poverty in Cork. His _Walks in Ireland_ is his best known work, though he wrote many other works, literary and political.

⸺ STORIES FOR CALUMNIATORS. Two Vols. (DUBLIN: _Fitzpatrick_). 1809.

“Interspersed with remarks on the disadvantages, misfortunes,
and habits of the Irish.” Dedicated to Lord Holland. A
remarkable book in many ways. Through the medium of three
stories, largely based on fact, the Author sets forth instances
of the sad aftermath of the rebellion, illustrating the tragic
consequences that may ensue if those in authority listen to
the voice of slander and condemn on suspicion. The stories
are told to a Mr. Fitzmaurice by persons related to the
victims, and Mr. F.’s own romance is interwoven with the tale.
Incidentally the Author gives his own views on Irish politics,
views full of the most kindly tolerance and of true patriotic
feeling without _ráiméis_. He seems not a Catholic, but is most
friendly towards Catholics. He is strongly in favour of the
Irish language, of land reform, and of the higher education of
women—astonishing views considering the period.

=TURK, S. A.=

⸺ THE SECRET OF CARRICFEARNAGH CASTLE. (_Washbourne_). 2_s._ [1912]. Second ed., 1915.

“It has a somewhat sensational plot; but it certainly displays
the deep piety, patriotism, and Christian charity of Erin’s
sons and daughters.”—(Publ.).

=TYNAN, Katherine; Mrs. H. A. Hinkson.= Born in Dublin, 1861, ed. Dominican Convent, Drogheda. Lived for many years in England, but now resides in Co. Mayo. Her stories aim at the purely romantic. As they are not concerned with the seamy side of life, their atmosphere is almost entirely happy and ideal. They are never morbid nor depressing. They do not preach, and are not of the goody-goody type. The style is pleasant and chatty, with plenty of colour, often full of the poet’s vivid sense impressions. The tone is thoroughly Catholic, the sentiment Irish. Mrs. Hinkson is a very prolific writer. Besides the novels mentioned, and several volumes of poems, she has written several novels which are not concerned with Ireland, _e.g._, _A Red Red Rose_, _The Luck of the Fairfaxes_, _Dick Pentreath_, _For Maisie_, _Mary Gray_, &c. In choice of subject she has made a speciality of broken-down gentlefolk, and often introduces Quakers into her stories.

⸺ A CLUSTER OF NUTS. Pp. 242. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 1894.

Seventeen short sketches written for English periodicals.
Subject: daily life of the peasantry—the village “characters,”
a spoilt priest, the migrating harvesters, and a pathetic
picture of a poor old village priest. Charming descriptions of
scenery, not too long drawn out. Much tender and unaffected
pathos.

⸺ AN ISLE IN THE WATER. Pp. 221. (_Black_). 1895.

Fifteen short pieces collected out of various English
periodicals. The scene of about half of them is an unnamed
island off the West coast. The scene of the other is Achill.
The title does not cover the rest. Sketches chiefly of
peasant life, in which narrative (sometimes told in dialogue)
predominates. The stories are very varied. There are pathetic
sketches of young girls: “Mauryeen,” “Katie,” “How Mary came
Home”; tales of the supernatural, such as “The Death Spancel”;
“A Rich Woman,” a racy story of legacy hunting; while heroic
self-sacrifice is depicted in “The Man who was hanged” and “A
Solitary.” The last two pieces in the book are not stories:
they are musings or subjective impressions.

⸺ THE WAY OF A MAID. Pp. 300. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 1895.

Domestic and social life in Coolevara, a typical Irish country
town, chiefly among Catholic middle class folk. It is a simple
and pleasant story of love and marriage with a happy ending.

⸺ A LAND OF MIST AND MOUNTAIN. Pp. 195. (_Catholic Truth Society_). 1895.

Short sketches of Irish life written with the Author’s
accustomed tenderness and simple pathos. Noteworthy are the
tales that contain Jimmy, the Wicklow peasant lad, who loves
all animals; the prodigal who returns after twenty years, and
the exiles Giuseppe and Beppo, in their queer little Dublin
shop. Real persons—Rose Kavanagh, Ellen O’Leary, and Sarah
Atkinson—are introduced in a fictitious setting.

_The Land I Love Best_ is another series of eight tales issued
by the same publishers about 1898. 200 pages.

⸺ THE DEAR IRISH GIRL. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ (CHICAGO: _McClurg_). 1.50.

Motherless, and an only child, Biddy O’Connor brings herself
up in a big, lonely Dublin house. Dr. O’Connor lives amid his
memories and his books. Biddy is a winsome girl, and keeps
the reader’s heart from the time we first meet her with the
homeless dogs of Dublin as her favourite companions to the day
when she weds the master of Coolbawn. The chief charm of the
book lies in the picture of life amid the splendid scenery
of Connaught. The book has a pleasant atmosphere of bright
simplicity and quick mirthfulness. The SPECTATOR calls it
“fresh, unconventional, and poetic.”

⸺ SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. Pp. 310. (_Smith, Elder_). (CHICAGO: _McClurg_). 1.50. 1899.

Three delightful girls of a class which the Author delights to
picture—impoverished gentry and their love affairs. The minor
characters, servants, village people, &c., are very humorous
and true to life. In this story the course of true love is by
no means smooth, but all is well at the last. The scene varies
between “Carrickmoyle” and London.

⸺ A GIRL OF GALWAY. (_Blackie_). 5_s._ Handsome gift-book binding. 1900.

She stays with her grandfather, a miserly old recluse living
in the wilds of Connemara, seeing nobody but his agent, an
unscrupulous fellow, in whom he has perfect confidence. A love
affair is soon introduced. It seems hopeless at first, but
turns out all right owing to a strange unlooked for event.
Pleasant and faithful picture of Connemara life.

⸺ THREE FAIR MAIDS. Pp. 381. (_Blackie_). 6_s._ [1900]. (N.Y.: _Scribner_). 1.50. Twelve illustr. by G. Demain Hammond. 1909.

The three daughters of Sir Jasper Burke are of the reduced
county family class, about which the Author loves to write. The
expedient of receiving paying guests results in matrimony for
the three girls. With this simple plot there are all the things
that go to make Katharine Tynan’s works delightful reading:
insight into character, impressions of Irish life, lovable
personalities of many types.

⸺ A DAUGHTER OF THE FIELDS. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ (CHICAGO: _McClurg_). 1900.

“Another gracious Irish girl. Well educated, and brought
up to a refined and easy life, she applies herself to the
drudgery of farm work rather than desert her toiling mother;
but the novelist finds her a husband and a more fortunate
lot.”—(_Baker_).

⸺ A UNION OF HEARTS. Pp. 296. (_Nisbet_). 2_s._ 6_d._ and 1_s._ 6_d._ _n.d._ [1900].

A typical example of Mrs. Hinkson’s stories. The main plot is
a simple, idyllic love-story. The hero, much idealized, is
an Englishman who tries to do good to his Irish tenants in
his own way, and hence incurs their hatred, for a time. The
heroine is an heiress come of a good old stock. Several of the
characters are cleverly sketched: old Miss Lucy Considine and
her antiquarian brother, in particular. Scenes of peasant life
act as interludes to the main action, which lies in county
family society. All the chief persons are Protestants, but the
religious element is quite eliminated from the book.

⸺ THAT SWEET ENEMY. (_Constable_). 6_s._ (PHILADELPHIA: _Lippincott_). 1.50. 1901.

“A sentimental story of two Irish girls, children of a decayed
house; their love affairs, the hindrance to their happiness,
and the matrimonial _dénouement_.”—(_Baker_).

⸺ A KING’S WOMAN. Pp. 155. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 6_d._ [1902]. 1905.

Told by Penelope Fayle, a young Quaker gentlewoman, a loyalist
or King’s woman, but sympathetic to the Irish. Scene: a
Leinster country house in 1798. No descriptions of the
fighting, but glimpses of the cruelty of Ancient Britons,
yeomanry, &c., and of the dark passions of the time. Racy,
picturesque style, with exciting incidents and dramatic
situations.

⸺ THE HANDSOME QUAKER. Pp. 252. (_A. H. Bullen_). 1902.

Eighteen exquisite little stories and sketches dealing, nearly
all, with the lives of the poorest peasantry. They have all the
Author’s best qualities.

⸺ LOVE OF SISTERS. Pp. 344. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ [1902]. Third ed. 1908.

The scene varies between the West of Ireland and Dublin.
A love-story, in which the central figures are Phillippa
Featherstonhaugh and her sister, Colombe: a contrast in
character, but each lovable in her own way. The plot turns on
the unselfish devotion of the former, who, believing that her
lover has transferred his affections to her sister, heroically
stands aside. We shall not reveal the _dénouement_. The minor
characters are capital, all evidently closely copied from life.
There are the elderly spinsters, Miss Finola and Miss Peggy,
and quite a number of charming old ladies, the country priest
and the sisters’ bustling, philanthropic mother, always in a
whirl of correspondence about her charities, and others equally
interesting.

⸺ A DAUGHTER OF KINGS. (_Nash_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.25. 1903.

The daughter of a broken-down aristocratic county family is
obliged to take service as chaperon in an English family.
Careful study of girl’s lovable character. Contrast between the
pride and poverty of Witches’ Castle, Co. Donegal, and opulence
of English home.

⸺ THE HONOURABLE MOLLY. Pp. 312. (_Smith, Elder_). Second impression, 1903.

The Honourable Molly is of mixed Anglo-Irish aristocratic (her
father was a Creggs de la Poer) and Scoto-Irish middle class
origin (her mother’s people were O’Neills and Sinclairs).
She has two suitors, one is from her mother’s people, the
other is the heir to Castle Creggs and the title. Both are
eminently worthy of her hand. She finally chooses one,
after having accepted the other. Has all the sweetness and
femininity of Katherine Tynan’s work. Is frankly romantic but
not mawkish. There is no approach to a villain. There is some
quiet and good-natured satire of old-fashioned aristocratic
class-notions. The portraits of the two old maiden aunts are
very clever.

⸺ JULIA. Pp. 322. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ Second impression, 1904.

How a baseless slander nearly ruined the life of Julia, the
Cinderella of her family, how she was nearly lost to her lover,
and by what strange turns of fortune she was restored. The
chief characters belong to two branches of a Kerry family,
whose history is that of many another in Ireland. Julia’s
mother is a splendid type of the old-fashioned Irish matron.
There is touching pathos in the picture of the Grace family
(minor personages of the tale)—a mother’s absolute devotedness
to a pair of thankless and worthless daughters. The old parish
priest, too, is well drawn.

⸺ THE ADVENTURES OF ALICIA. (_White_). 6_s._ 1906.

“A characteristically winning story of a poor young Irish
girl, who had to serve English employers, but, in spite of
all temptations, remained true to her Irish lover.”—(_Press
Notice_).

⸺ THE STORY OF BAWN. Pp. 312. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ (CHICAGO: _McClurg_). 1.50. 1906.

One of the Author’s prettiest stories. Family of high standing
falls into the meshes of money-lender. The daughter consents to
marry him—but the plot need not be revealed. The scene appears
to be Co. Kerry in the early ’sixties, but there seem to be
some anachronisms.

⸺ HER LADYSHIP. Pp. 305. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ (CHICAGO: _McClurg_). 1.25. Second impression, 1907.

Lady Anne Chute is mistress of a vast estate in Co. Kerry. From
the moment of her succession to the property she resolves to
act the part of Providence in her people’s lives. She sets
about improving their condition, founding industries, &c., and
with full success. This is the background to a love-story.
Old Miss Chenevix, once a “lady,” but now living almost on
the verge of starvation in an obscure quarter of Dublin, is
a pathetic figure. Pathetic also is the devotion of her old
servant to the fallen fortunes of the family. Then there is the
picture, drawn with exquisite sympathy, of the poor girl dying
of consumption, and of how her religion exalted and brightened
her last days. The descriptions or rather impressions of nature
which brighten the story are peculiarly vivid.

⸺ THE HOUSE OF THE CRICKETS. (_Smith, Elder_). 1908.

A story of Irish peasant farmer life. The heroine lives, with
her brothers and sisters, a life of abject slavery, ruled by a
tyrannical and puritanical father. In this wretched home she
and her brother, Richard, develop noble qualities of character
and mind. The members of the family are very life-like
portraits, and the picture of Irish life is drawn with much
care and skill.

⸺ MEN AND MAIDS. Pp. 294. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by Dorothea Preston. 1908.

A collection of short stories, chiefly thoroughly romantic
love-stories. “A Big Lie” is, however, of a different
character, and the Author has hardly ever written a more
delightful story.

⸺ PEGGY THE DAUGHTER. Pp. 335. (_Cassell_). 1909.

A romance of Ireland in early Victorian days. A young
spendthrift nobleman, a widower, runs away with Priscilla, a
Quakeress, and also an heiress. The description of the pursuit
is exciting and dramatic. The penalty of his deed is a long
imprisonment, from which he issues a sadder and wiser man.
Priscilla’s care of his little daughter, Peggy, in the meantime
is a pathetic story. The plot suggested by the attempted
abduction by Sir H. B. Hayes of the Quakeress, Miss Pike, of
Cork.

⸺ COUSINS AND OTHERS. Pp. 319. (_Laurie_). 1909.

Eleven stories. The title story, the longest (there are nine
chapters) tells how a shabby branch of an old Irish family
finally won recognition by means of a marriage with the
supposed heir and by the finding of certain old family papers.
Contains some goodnatured satire on the snobbishness of Irish
county society. One of the remaining stories is Irish in
subject. All show the Author’s best qualities—freshness, charm,
and cheerful optimism.

⸺ THE HANDSOME BRANDONS. (_Blackie_). 3_s._ 6_d._ New ed. Illustr. by G. Demain Hammond.

How a marriage between scions of two ancient Irish houses heals
a long-standing feud.

⸺ THE HOUSE OF THE SECRET. Pp. 314. (_James Clarke_). 6_s._ 1910.

The story of Maeve Standish’s self-sacrifice in the
sorrow-shadowed home of her father’s old friend, Miss Henrietta
O’Neill, of her ultimate good fortune, and finally of her happy
marriage. The setting is entirely Irish.—(_Press Notice_).

⸺ HEART O’ GOLD; or, The Little Princess. Pp. 344. (_Partridge_). 3_s._ 6_d._

Story of how Cushla MacSweeney and her sister, left as orphans,
are carried off from their tumbled-down Irish home and brought
up at Tunbridge Wells. How Cushla returns at twenty-one full
of dreams for the improvement of Ireland, and is aided in her
plans by a young man whom she afterwards marries. Full of the
Author’s interesting character-studies.

⸺ THE STORY OF CECILIA. Pp. 304. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.00. 1911.

Scene: Kerry and Dublin. Two stories, of mother and daughter,
Ciss and Cecilia, interwoven. Ciss’s fiancé is reported killed.
She loses her reason and persuades herself that a Dr. Grace,
who is of peasant extraction, is her lover come back. To save
her from the asylum Lord Dromore, her cousin and guardian,
has to consent unwillingly to the marriage. The absent
lover returns, but she does not meet him for twenty years.
Meanwhile Ciss’s mésalliance is causing trouble in the course
of Cecilia’s love for Lord Kilrush. But all ends happily. The
characters are mainly drawn from the denationalised Irish upper
classes. The story is told with much charm.

⸺ PRINCESS KATHARINE. Pp. 320. (_Ward_). 6_s._ 1912.

A girl educated much above her mother’s condition in life and
mixing in upper class society.

⸺ ROSE OF THE GARDEN. Pp. 312. (_Constable_). 1912.

The story of Lady Sarah Lennox (1745-1826) in the form of
fiction. A good many Irish members of the _beau monde_ appear
in the tale. It is not for young readers. See _The Life and
Letters of Lady Sarah Lennox_, edited by the Countess of
Ilchester and Lord Stavordale. Two vols. (_Murray_).

⸺ A SHAMEFUL INHERITANCE. Pp. 324. (_Cassell_). 6_s._ 1914.

“Katharine Tynan, in her gentle way, puts before us the growing
up of the boy Pat in ignorance of the disgrace (a jewel
robbery) of his mother and the suicide of his father, and the
effect upon him of the disclosure. A lovable and spiritual
Father Peter plays a leading part in it all.”—(T. LITT.
SUPPL.). Pat finds his mother in time to comfort her deathbed,
and in the end marries an old friend. Somewhat vague, and not
free from inconsistencies.

⸺ COUNTRYMEN ALL. Pp. 238. (_Maunsel_). 2_s._ 1915.

A volume of stories and sketches, very varied in its contents,
from well-told but rather unconvincing little melodramas like
“The Fox Hunter” and “John ’a Dreams” to very vivid glimpses
of life, _choses vues et vécues_. These show various sides
of Irish life and character; an unpleasant side in “The
Ruling Passion” (a woman discussing her own funeral with
her daughter), as well as the pleasant and lovable aspects.
“The Mother” and “The Mother of Jesus” are little studies of
exquisite tenderness. Several of the sketches are humorous,
for instance the weird episode, “Per istam sanctam unctionem,”
related by a priest. The scene of several seems to be the
neighbourhood of Dublin.

⸺ THE HOUSE OF THE FOXES. Pp. 307. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ 1915.

The Turloughmores are overshadowed by a curse made long ago by
an old woman wounded to death by the hounds of a former Lord
T. when hunting. According to the curse, every head of the
house must die a violent death, in forewarning of which foxes
will be seen in twos and threes about the house for some time
before. The actual Lord T. is expected home from his yachting
cruise, his wife ever in dread of the doom. He is wrecked
and apparently lost, but Meg Hildebrand, who is staying at
the castle, discovers the almost dying lord in mysterious
circumstances. He dies in his bed, his heir is married into a
lucky house, and the curse is said to be lifted. Founded on
a legend (still current) of a well-known Irish family. Many
threads of various interest are woven into the tale.

⸺ MEN, NOT ANGELS, and Other Tales told to Girls. (_Burns & Oates_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Many full-p. illustr. 1915.

Dainty stories, healthy and pleasant in tone, not weakly
sentimental, definitely Catholic in character. Laid in various
countries—England, France, Switzerland, as well as Ireland.
Sympathetic studies of priests.

=UPTON, W. C.=

⸺ UNCLE PAT’S CABIN. Pp. vi. + 284. (_Gill_). 1882.

“Or life among the agricultural labourers of Ireland.” “All the
facts relative to the agricultural labourer in these pages can
be vouched for.”—(Pref.). Describes vividly the long struggle
of a labourer against adversity, the evils arising out of the
competition for the land. A graphic picture of the conditions
of the poor. Scene: Co. Limerick in the years from 1847 to
1880 or so. The writer was a carpenter working at Ardagh,
who afterwards went to America. The chapters relating to a
parliamentary contest are less valuable than the rest of the
book. Lecky, in his “_History of Ireland in the Eighteenth
Century_” (Vol. 3, ch. 8, pp. 413-14 in a footnote), speaks of
the book as “one of the truest and most vivid pictures of the
present condition of the Irish labourer.”

=VAIZEY, Mrs. G. de Horne.=

⸺ PIXIE O’SHAUGHNESSY.

Scene: first, a fashionable English girls’ school, afterwards a
half-ruined castle in the West of Ireland. The book is taken up
with the amusing scrapes and other adventures of a wild little
Irish girl, and with the love affairs of her sisters. Gives
a good, if somewhat overdrawn, picture of Irish character,
especially of traditional Irish hospitality.

⸺ MORE ABOUT PIXIE. (_R.T.S._). 6_d._ 1910.

⸺ THE FORTUNES OF THE FARRELLS. Pp. 190. (_Leisure Hour Library Office_). 6_d._ 1911.

=VANCE, Louis Joseph.=

⸺ TERENCE O’ROURKE, Gentleman Adventurer. Pp. 393. (_E. Grant Richards_). 1906.

Thrilling adventures of a penniless soldier, who goes about Don
Quixote-wise rescuing distressed damsels—each more beautiful
than the last—fighting duels, and so forth. A good story of its
class, and free from anything objectionable.

=VEREKER, Hon. C. S., M.A., F.G.S.=

⸺ OLD TIMES IN IRELAND. Three Vols. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1873.

The Author was commandant of the Limerick City Artillery
Militia and son of Lord Gort. Chiefly heavy light-comedy,
with conventional characters and an air of unreality about
the whole. The humour, the dialect, the characteristics of
the various personages, all are highly exaggerated. A Lord
Lieutenant, a Duke, the absurd Mr. and Mrs. O’Rafferty, the
still more absurd love-sick schoolmaster, ruffianly Terry Alts,
figure, among many others, in the tale.

=VERNE, Jules.=

⸺ FOUNDLING MICK (P’tit Bonhomme). Pp. 303. (_Sampson, Low_). Seventy-six good illustr. 1895.

The very varied and often exciting adventures of a poor waif.
Rescued from a travelling showman at Westport, Co. Mayo, he is
sent to a poor school in Galway, resembling the workhouse in
_Oliver Twist_. Further adventures bring him to Limerick, and
then to Tralee, and afterwards to many other parts of Ireland.
The book is written in thorough sympathy with Ireland, and in
particular with the sufferings of the poor under iniquitous
Land Laws, though at times with a little exaggeration. There
is a vivid description of an eviction. Other aspects of Irish
life are touched on, and with considerable knowledge. Dublin,
Belfast, Killarney, Bray, are some of the places described. The
spirit is Catholic: witness the kindly words on page 8 about
Irish priests.

=“WALDA, Viola.”=

⸺ MISS PEGGY O’DILLON; or, the Irish Critic. (_Gill_). 1890.

=WALSHE, Miss E. H.=

⸺ THE FOSTER BROTHERS OF DOON. Pp. 394. (_R.T.S._). Illustr. _n.d._ (_c._ 1865).

The foster-brothers are Myles Furlong, a Co. Wexford blacksmith
on the rebel side in the rising of ’98, and Capt. Butler, a
loyalist. Their respective adventures amid the historic events
of the time are very well told. The Captain’s election as M.P.
for Doon is well described. Putnam McCabe, Hamilton Rowan,
Tone, Curran, and Jackson appear in the tale. Dialect good.
Leans to loyalist side. “Written from a decidedly Protestant
standpoint.”—(_Nield_).

⸺ GOLDEN HILLS. (_R.T.S._). 1865.

The Famine.

⸺ THE MANUSCRIPT MAN; or, the Bible in Ireland. Pp. 226. (_R.T.S._). 1869.

In the biographical note prefixed to this story we are told
that the Author was all her life interested and actively
engaged in evangelical work. She was born in Limerick,
1835, died 1868. The story tells how a family of Protestant
landowners succeeded in distributing among their Catholic
tenantry copies of the Bible in Irish, and thereby converted
a number of them to Protestantism. The converts afterwards
emigrate and settle in America. Scene: apparently West
Connaught. Throughout, “Romanism” and “Romish” practices are
contrasted with Protestantism, greatly to the disadvantage of
the former. The book is well and interestingly written.

=WARD, Mrs.=

⸺ WAVES ON THE OCEAN OF LIFE: a Dalriadian Tale. Pp. 322. (_Simpkin_). 1869.

Domestic life, with glimpses of religious and political strife
in Ulster at close of eighteenth century truthfully delineated.
Scene: Lough Erne and Antrim, the scenery of Dunluce and
the Causeway described, and some real incidents introduced.
Sympathetic towards the people, and does not disparage the ’98
insurgents.

=WATSON, Helen H.=