Chapter I: , “Ourselves and Our Island,” gives the author’s

thoughts about Ireland, its outward aspect, the peculiarities
of its social life, its soul. It includes an exquisite
pen-picture of Irish landscape beauty. The remaining fourteen
sketches are “chapters from the history of some Irish country
folk,” whom she describes as “social, pleasure-loving,
keen-witted,” but “prone to melancholy and mysticism.” The last
sketch is a picture, almost photographic in its fidelity, of
a little out-of-the-way country town and its neighbourhood.
The illustrations are pretty, and the artist, who, unlike many
illustrators of Irish books, has evidently been in Ireland, has
made a great effort to include in his pictures as much local
colour as possible. Yet it seems to us that un-Irish traits
often intrude themselves despite him.

⸺ FLAWS. Pp. 344. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1911.

Embroidered upon an exceptionally involved plot—four times we
are introduced to a wholly new set of characters—we have the
author’s usual qualities, minute observation and depiction of
curious aspects of character, snatches of clever picturesque
conversation, an occasional vivid glimpse of nature. But in
this case the caste is made up of spiteful, petty, small-minded
and generally disagreeable personages. They are nearly all
drawn from the middle and upper classes in the South of
Ireland, Protestant and Anglicized. The snobbishness, petty
jealousies, selfishness of some of these people is set forth
in a vein of satire. The incidents include an unusually tragic
suicide.

⸺ MAC’S ADVENTURES. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1911.

Eight stories in which Mac, or rather Macartney Valentine
O’Neill Barry, who is four years old in the first and six in
the last, plays a leading part. Indeed he is quite a little
_deus ex machina_, or rather a good fairy in the affairs of his
elders. Mac is neither a paragon nor a youthful prodigy. He
is just a natural child, with a child’s love of mischief and
“grubbiness,” and full of quaint sayings. Bright and genial in
tone.—(_Press Notices_).

⸺ DOINGS AND DEALINGS. Pp. 314. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1913.

Thirteen stories, all but one (the longest) dealing with
peasant life in the author’s wonted manner. Perhaps scarcely so
good as some of her earlier collections.

⸺ A CREEL OF IRISH STORIES. (_Methuen_). 1_s._ Cloth. 8vo. (N.Y.: _Dodd & Mead_). 1.25.

The first of these, “The Keys of the Chest,” is a curious
and original conception, showing with what strange notions a
child grew up in a lonely mansion by the sea. The story of the
suicide is a gem of story-telling. “Three Pint Measures” is a
comic sketch of low Dublin life.

⸺ ANOTHER CREEL OF IRISH STORIES. Published, I believe, in U.S.A. (On sale by _Pratt_: N.Y.). 1.75.

=[BARRETT, J. G.], “Erigena.”=

⸺ EVELYN CLARE; or, The Wrecked Homesteads. Pp. viii. + 274. (DERBY: _Richardson_). 1870.

“An Irish story of love and landlordism.” Crude melodrama with
all the usual accessories—a landlord, “Lord Ironhoof,” and an
agent, “Gore”—eviction, agrarian murders, a disguised priest,
and secret Mass, a poteen still, an elopement, a changeling
brought up in wealth, a lover supposed drowned, and an innocent
man unjustly convicted. No sense of reality. Scene: West of
Ireland, _c._ 1850. Several anachronisms.

=BARRINGTON, F. Clinton.=

⸺ FITZ-HERN; or, The Irish Patriot Chief. Pp. 122. (GLASGOW: _Cameron & Ferguson_). _n.d._

Scene: Galway Bay. Crude melodrama, without historical
significance. Wicked married bishops, scheming foreign monks,
and coarse fat friars are the villains of the piece. But
the hero, a smuggler of noble birth, always escapes from
their clutches, and finally marries the heroine. Specimen of
dialect:—“Arrah, gorrah, avic, father John, it’s the Pope o’
Rome ye bate, out and out.” (p. 13).

=BARRON, Percy.=

⸺ THE HATE FLAME. Pp. 382. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 6_s._ 1908.

The story of a noble life wrecked by racial hatred. The hero,
a young Englishman, Jack Bullen, fights a duel, in Heidelberg,
with an Irish student, and kills him. This deed comes in after
years between him and the Irish girl (cousin of the slain
student, and pledged against her will to vengeance by his
father) whom he was to marry—and this through the plotting of
her rejected lover and a priest. Bullen had, for the upraising
of the Irish people, started a great peat factory in Ireland,
and it had prospered. This work is wrecked by the same agency
that ruins his private happiness. Throughout the book the
Author attacks all the cherished ideas of Irish Nationalism and
of the present Irish revival, and sets over against them the
ideals of England and his personal views. Much bitterness is
shown against the priests of Ireland. The scene-painting and
the handling of situation and of narrative are very clever.
There is nothing objectionable from a moral point of view.

=BARRY, Canon William, D.D.= Born in London, 1849. Educated at Oscott and Rome. He is a man of very wide learning, a theologian and a man-of-letters, known in literature both by his novels (_The New Antigone_, &c.) and by important historical and religious works. Is now Rector of St. Peter’s, Leamington.

⸺ THE WIZARD’S KNOT. Pp. 376. (_Unwin_). 6_s._ Second ed. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 3.00. 1900.

Dedicated to Douglas Hyde and Standish Hayes O’Grady. Scene:
coast of South-west Cork during famine times, of which some
glimpses are shown. There is a slight embroidery of Irish
legend and a good deal about superstition, but the incidents,
characters, and conversations have little, if any, relation
to real life in Ireland. It is mainly a study of primitive
passions. It might be described as a dream of a peculiarly
“creepy” and morbid kind. It is wholly unlike the Author’s _New
Antigone_.

=BAYNE, Marie.=

⸺ FAIRY STORIES FROM ERIN’S ISLE. Pp. 131. (_Sands_). 2_s._ 6_d._ net. Illustr. by Mabel Dawson and John Petts. 1908.

Pretty and attractive picture-cover. Six little stories told
in pretty, poetic style, one about a fairy changeling, another
about the mermaids. The “Luck of the Griddle Darner” is in
pleasant swinging verse. So is the “Sleep of Earl Garrett.”
Though intended for small children, none of the stories are
silly.

=BENNETT, Louie.= Born in Dublin, educated there by private tuition and in London. Has done some journalistic work, but is chiefly interested in social questions, in particular the woman’s movement and pacifism. Resides near Bray, Co. Wicklow.

⸺ THE PROVING OF PRISCILLA. Pp. 303. (_Harper_). 1902.

Scene: varies between Mayo and Dublin. Story of an ill-assorted
marriage. The wife, daughter of a Protestant rector, is a
Puritan of the best type, simple, religious, and sincere. The
husband is a fast man of fashion, who cannot understand her
“prejudices.” After much bickering they part. Troubles fall on
both. In the end his illness brings them together again—each
grown more tolerant. Quiet and simply but well written, with
nothing objectionable in the treatment.

⸺ PRISONER OF HIS WORD, A. Pp. 240. (_Maunsel_). 6_s._ Handsome cover. 1908. New edition. 1s. 1914.

“A tale of real happenings” (sub-title). Opens at Ballynahinch,
Co. Down, in June, 1797. A pleasant, exciting romance, written
in vigorous and nervous style. A young Englishman joins
the Northern rebellion. He pledges himself to avenge his
friend taken after the fight at Ballynahinch, and hanged as
a rebel. The story tells how he carries out the pledge. The
only historical character introduced is Thomas Russell. His
pitiful failure in 1803 to raise another rebellion in Ulster is
related. The little heroine, Kate Maxwell, is finely drawn.

=BERENS, Mrs. E. M.=

⸺ STEADFAST UNTO DEATH. Pp. 275. (_Remington_). Frontisp. by Fairfield. 1880.

“A tale of the Irish famine of to-day.” Period: 1879-80. Place:
Ballinaveen, not far from Cork. Black Hugh, a kind of outlaw
of the mountains is the hero. He had loved Mrs. Sullivan
before she married the drunken, worthless Pat. He promises her
when she is on her deathbed to care for the children she is
leaving, and the worthless husband. Hugh takes the blame of the
latter’s crime, and is hanged in Dublin. The family is rescued
by benevolent English people. A well-told, but very sad story.
The people’s miseries are feelingly depicted. Standpoint of a
kind-hearted Englishwoman who pities, but does not in the least
understand Ireland.

=BERTHET, Elie.=

⸺ DERNIER IRLANDAIS, LE. Three Vols. 16mo. (BRUXELLES: _Meline_). 1851.

Ireland in the eighteen forties. Abortive rising under one of
the O’Byrnes of Wicklow (_Le dernier Irlandais_). O’Connell
looms in the background as the opponent of all this. The
rebellion, which at once fizzles out, is the result of an
insult to O’Byrne’s sister by a _roué_ named Clinton. O’B.
flies to Cunnemara (_sic_) with Nelly Avondale, daughter of the
landlord of Glendalough, is besieged there in a fortress. Nelly
returns to marry the above-mentioned _roué_ and O’B. flies.
The Author is evidently not consciously hostile to Ireland,
but he is totally ignorant of it. The peasants are travestied.
They are all drunkards, slovenly, sly, mean, lawless. Some
descriptions of scenery in Wicklow and Connemara.

=BERTHOLDS, Mrs. W. M.=

⸺ CONNOR D’ARCY’S STRUGGLES. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 2_s._ 1914.

=BESTE, Henry Digby, 1768-1836.= Son of the prebendary of Lincoln. Became a Catholic 1798. An interesting biographical sketch of him (largely autobiographical) is prefixed to the novel here noticed. It includes a full account of his conversion.

⸺ POVERTY AND THE BARONET’S FAMILY: An Irish Catholic Novel. Pp. xxxii. + 415. (LONDON: _Jones_). 1845.

Bryan O’Meara, son of a poor Irish migratory labourer, is
educated as a gentleman by Sir Cecil Foxglove, of Denham,
near Grantham, in gratitude for the rescue of his child by
Bryan’s father. Coming to man’s estate, and being refused by
the Baronet’s daughter he returns to his father’s people at
Athlone, where for some time he plays at being a farmer’s
lad—and at rebellion. But a fortunate chance puts great
wealth into his hands, and he returns to marry the Baronet’s
daughter. Interesting glimpses of Catholic life in penal days
(the story opens in 1805) when Catholicism was at the lowest
ebb in England. The DUBLIN REVIEW says (1848, Vol. xxiv., p.
239): “The hero is a pious pedant, a truculent fellow, and a
self-conceited proser. The story itself is purposeless; bitter
in sentiment, and swamped in never-ending small-talk.” The
“small-talk,” however is, if anything, over-serious and moral.

=“BIRMINGHAM, George A.”= Rev. James Owen Hannay, M.A., Canon of St. Patrick’s Cathedral (1912). Born 1865, son of Rev. Robert Hannay, vicar of Belfast. Educated at Temple Grove, East Sheen; Haileybury; T.C.D. Curate of Delgany, Co. Wicklow. Rector of Westport, 1892-1913. Has resigned this cure in order to devote himself to literature. Is a member of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland. He has shown himself equally at home in political satire, humorous fiction and historical fiction. He is in sympathy with the ideals of the Gaelic League, and has actively shown this sympathy. He seems on the whole Nationalist in his views, but has nothing in common with the Parliamentary Party. His earlier books showed strong aversion for the Catholic Church, but, except perhaps in _Hyacinth_, he has never striven to represent it in an odious light, and he is an enemy of all intolerance.

⸺ THE SEETHING POT. Pp. 299. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1904.

Main theme: the apparently hopeless embroilment of politics
and ideas in Ireland. Many aspects of Irish questions and
conditions of life are dealt with. Many of the characters are
types of contemporary Irish life, some are thinly disguised
portraits of contemporary Irishmen, _e.g._, Dennis Browne,
poet, æsthete, egoist; Desmond O’Hara, journalistic freelance
(said to be modelled on Standish O’Grady); Sir Gerald
Geoghegan, nationalist landlord; John O’Neill, the Irish
leader, who is deserted by his party and ruined by clerical
influence; and many others. All this is woven into a romance
with a love interest and a good deal of incident.

⸺ HYACINTH. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1906.

An account, conveyed by means of a slight plot, of contemporary
movements and personages in Ireland. Most of these are
satirized and even caricatured, especially “Robeen” Convent, by
which seemed to be meant Foxford Mills, directed by the Sisters
of Charity (see NEW IRELAND REVIEW, March, 1906). A grasping,
unscrupulous selfishness is represented to be one of the chief
characteristics of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

⸺ THE BAD TIMES. Pp. 312. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ [1907]. New edition, 1_s._ 1914.

Period: chiefly Isaac Butt’s Home Rule movement. Stephen
Butler, representative of a landlord family of strong
Nationalist sympathies, determines to work for Ireland. He
joins the Home Rule Party, but he hates agrarian outrage, and
so, through the Land League, becomes unpopular in his district
in spite of all he has done. The author introduces types of
nearly every class of men then influential in Ireland: a priest
who favours and a priest who opposes the new agrarian movement,
an incurably narrow-minded English R.M., an old Fenian, and so
on. The impression one draws from the whole is much the same
as that of the _Seething Pot_. The Author’s views are strongly
National, and there is no bitter word against any class of
Irishmen, _except_ the present Parliamentary Party.

⸺ BENEDICT KAVANAGH. Pp. 324. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1907.

Dedication in Irish. Foreword in which the Author states that
by “Robeen” Convent he did not intend Foxford (cf. _Hyacinth_).
A criticism of Irish political life, free from rancour, and
from injustice to any particular class of Irishmen, showing
strong sympathy for the Gaelic League, and all it stands for.
The hero is left at the parting of the ways, with the choice
before him of “respectability” and ease, or work for Ireland.
The book should set people asking why is it that Irishmen—no
matter what their creed or politics—cannot work together for
their common country?

⸺ THE NORTHERN IRON. Pp. 320. (_Maunsel_). Bound in Irish linen. 1907. New ed. at 1_s._, 1909. Cheap ed. (_Everett_), 7_d._, 1912.

Scene: Antrim; a few incidents of the rising woven into a
thrilling and powerful romance. Splendid portraits—the United
Irishmen James Hope, Felix Matier, and Micah Ward, the loyal
Lord Dunseverick, chivalrous and fearless, Finlay the Informer,
and others. Vivid presentment of the feelings and ideas of
the time, without undue bias, yet enlisting all the reader’s
sympathies on the side of Ireland.

⸺ SPANISH GOLD. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1908. Cheap ed., 1_s._ (N.Y.: _Doran_). 1.20.

A comedy of Irish life, full of the most amusing situations.
Scene: a lonely island off the coast of Connaught, in which
treasure is hidden. The action consists of the adventures of
various people who come to the island—an Irish chief secretary,
a retired colonel, a baronet, a librarian, a Catholic priest,
and a Protestant curate. This last, the Rev. J. J. Meldon, is
a most original creation. There are touches of social satire
throughout, but without bitterness or offensiveness.

⸺ THE SEARCH PARTY. Pp. 316. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1909. (N.Y.: _Doran_). 1.20.

“How a mad Anarchist made bombs in a lonely house on the west
coast of Ireland, and imprisoned the local doctor for fear lest
he should reveal the secret. Mr. Birmingham’s irresponsible
gaiety and the knowledge of Irish character revealed in
his more serious fiction carry the farce along at a fine
pace.”—(TIMES LIT. SUPPL.).

⸺ LALAGE’S LOVERS. Pp. 312. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _Doran_). 1.20. 1911.

The main idea—in so far as the book is serious—may be stated
thus:—How much can one young person (aetat 14 _sqq._) of
perfect candour and fearlessness do to upset the peace of
comfortable people, who are jogging along in the ruts of
convention and compromise. Lalage begins with her governess,
then tries the bench of bishops, but causes most consternation
by disturbing an election with her Association for the
Suppression of Public Lying. The whole is full of fun and
laughter. L. has been well described as “an especially
enterprising and slangy schoolboy in skirts.”

⸺ THE MAJOR’S NIECE. Pp. 302. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ 1911.

Rev. J. J. Meldon in new situations. Major Kent expects from
Australia a grown-up niece, who turns out to be a naughty
little girl of ten. Mr. Meldon had made innumerable plans for
the reception and treatment of the young lady. How does he face
the new situation? There are capital minor characters—Doyle the
hotel keeper, and Father MacCormack, and the housekeeper, Mrs.
O’Halloran.

⸺ THE SIMPKINS PLOT. Pp. 384. (_Nelson_). 2_s._ net. (N.Y.: _Doran_). 1.20. 1911.

Scene: “Ballymoy.” Problem: how to get rid of Simpkins, a
meddlesome busybody. The interest of the plot mainly turns
on the amusing manœuvres of Rev. J. J. Meldon (the hero of
_Spanish Gold_) to marry Simpkins to a mysterious “Miss King,”
a lady supposed to be identical with a Mrs. Lorimer, recently
acquitted, against the opinion of the Judge, of the murder
of her husband. Full throughout of fun, clever talk, and
deftly sketched character study. Sabina Gallagher, Sir Gilbert
Hawksby, and Major Kent are all well done, and there is no
mistaking the nationalities.

⸺ THE INVIOLABLE SANCTUARY. Pp. 370. (_Nelson_). 2_s._ 1912.

How Frank Mannix comes for vacation to Rosnacree (in the
wildest west of Ireland) in all the glory and dignity of a
Haileybury prefect. How, owing to a sprained ankle, he is
obliged to spend the time sailing in the bay with Priscilla,
his fifteen-year-old madcap cousin. How various exciting
adventures follow, including the finding, in most unexpected
and comical circumstances, by a Cabinet Minister of his
daughter, who had eloped with a clergyman, and how Frank and
Priscilla were responsible for the reconciliation. Told with
all the Author’s sense of fun and _flair_ for comic situations.
But why must _all_ Irish peasants appear as liars?

⸺ THE RED HAND OF ULSTER. Pp. 318. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ Cheap ed., 6_d._ 1912.

How an Irish-American millionaire runs a revolution in Ireland,
sweeping into his plans the rabid Orangemen, who are in deadly
earnest, the Tory M.P. who only meant to bluff, and members of
the Irish Tory aristocracy who meant nothing in particular.
Of this class is poor Lord Kilmore, who tells the story, and
was an unwilling actor in the whole business. The book is a
mixture of shrewd satire (_e.g._, Babberley, M.P., the Dean,
and McConkey) in which all parties receive their share, and of
Gilbertian extravaganza. The _dénouement_ is both amusing and
unexpected.

⸺ DOCTOR WHITTY. Pp. 320. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1913.

Types and humours of a west Connaught village—the P.P., the
Protestant Rector, Colonel Beresford, Thady Glynn, proprietor
of “The Imperial Hotel,” chairman of the League, and popular
demagogue, J.P., general philosopher, and “ipse dixit” of the
village, and then the Doctor himself, genial, sociable, “all
things to all men” to an extent that gets him into fixes, and
that is not easily reconcilable with the moral order. There are
broadly comical situations from which the Doctor extricates
himself, and emerges radiant as ever. The seamy side of Irish
life is depicted in the Author’s usual vein of satire.

⸺ GENERAL JOHN REGAN. Pp. 324. (_Hodder & Stoughton_) 6_s._ Second ed., 1913.

A very slight plot, centering in the erection of a statue to
an imaginary native of Ballymoy. The real interest lies in the
Author’s satirical pictures of Irish life, and in his humorous
delineations of such types as Dr. O’Grady, Doyle the dishonest
hotel-keeper, Major Kent, whom we have met in _Spanish Gold_,
Thady Gallagher, the editor of the local paper, and a rather
undignified and not wholly honest P.P. The thesis, if there
be any, would seem to be that the Irishman is so clever and
humorous that he will allow himself to be gulled, and will even
gull himself for the pleasure of gulling others.

⸺ MINNIE’S BISHOP, and Other Stories of Ireland. Pp. 320. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 6_s._ 1915.

Not all of these stories deal with Ireland, and those that do
are very varied in character. Some are in the Author’s most
humorous vein, others are more serious in tone. In several he
pokes fun at Government methods in the West, and some show the
comic side of gun-running, despatch-riding, and other Volunteer
activities. In the background, at times, is a vision of the
hopeless poverty of the Western peasant’s lot.

=BLACK, William.= Born in Glasgow, 1841. One of the foremost of English nineteenth century novelists. Published his first novel 1864; thirty-three others appeared before his death in 1898, at Brighton, where he had long resided.

⸺ SHANDON BELLS. Pp. 428. (_Sampson, Low_). 2_s._ 6_d._ [1883]. (N.Y.: _Harper_). 0.80. New and revised ed. 1893.

Scene: partly in London, partly in city and county of Cork. A
young Irishman goes to London to make his fortune. Disappointed
in his first love, he turns to love of nature. The book has all
the fine qualities of W. Black’s work. Sympathetic references
to Irish life and beautiful descriptions of Irish scenery in
Cork. Willy Fitzgerald, the hero, had for prototype William
Barry, a brilliant young Corkman and a London journalist.

=“BLACKBURNE, E. Owens.”= Elizabeth O. B. Casey, 1848-1894. Born at Slane, near the Boyne. Lived the first twenty-five years of her life in Ireland; then went to London to take up journalistic work. In 1869 her first story was accepted, and in the early seventies her _In at the Death_ (afterwards published as _A Woman Scorned_) appeared in THE NATION. To the end she used the pen-name “E. Owens Blackburne.” Other works of hers were _A Modern Parrhasius_, _The Quest of the Heir_, _Philosopher Push_, _Dean Swift’s Chest_, _The Love that Loves alway_. “Her stories are mostly occupied with descriptions of Irish peasant life, in which she was so thoroughly at home that she has been compared to Carleton. They are for the most part dramatic and picturesque; and she understood well the art of weaving a plot which should hold the reader’s interest.”—(_Irish Lit._).

⸺ A WOMAN SCORNED. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). [1876]. Also one Vol. (_Moxon_). 1878.

Out-at-elbows Irish household—upper class—brother, sister, and
young step-sister (the heroine) Katherine. Captain Fitzgerald
falls in love with Katherine. The elder sister (the woman
scorned) filled with jealousy plots to marry K. to a rich
elderly suitor. The plot miscarries, and she dies a miserable
death. Scene: near the Boyne. Some good descriptions of river
scenery.

⸺ THE WAY WOMEN LOVE. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). 1877.

Hugh O’Neill, a Donegal man, after an unsuccessful career as
an artist in London, settles near Weirford (Waterford). He has
two daughters—Moira, handsome, proud of her ancient lineage and
a poet, and Honor, plain and domestic. The story is concerned
with the loves of these two. Local society cleverly hit off.
Local newspapers and their editors come in for a good deal
of banter; several real characters, thinly disguised, being
introduced. Brogue very well done.

⸺ A BUNCH OF SHAMROCKS. Pp. 306. (N.Y.: _Munro_: “_Seaside Library_”). [1879]. 1883.

A collection of tales and sketches, illustrating for the most
part the gloomier side of the national character, viewed,
apparently, from a Protestant standpoint. In one, “The Priest’s
Boy,” there is much pathos.

⸺ MOLLY CAREW. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). _n.d._ (1879).

A tale of the unrequited love of an Irish girl of talent, but
of humble origin, for a selfish and ruffianly English author
named Eugene Wolfe. She falls in love with him as a child and
then, in young womanhood, falls still more deeply in love with
the ideal of him which she forms from his books. Nothing can
kill or even daunt this love, and for its sake she undergoes
the supremest sacrifices, but all in vain. The two chief
characters are carefully and consistently drawn, and there are
some dramatic scenes. The action passes chiefly in London,
whither Molly Carew had followed her ideal.

⸺ THE GLEN OF SILVER BIRCHES. Two Vols. (_Remington_). 1880. (N.Y.: _Harper_). 1881.

Nuala O’Donnell’s extravagant father has mortgaged his estate
in the Donegal Highlands, near Glenvich (The Glen of Silver
Birches). A scheming attorney tries to get the family into his
toils, and to marry N. The scheme is defeated, and N. marries
Thorburn, an English landlord, who has bought the neighbouring
estate. Some good characters, _e.g._, kindly old Aunt Nancy and
N.’s nationalist poet cousin.

⸺ THE HEART OF ERIN: An Irish story of To-day. Three Vols. (N.Y.: _Munro_: “_Seaside Library_”). [1882]. 1883.

Standish Clinton, a clever speechmaker, raises himself to a
foremost position in Parliament. Getting into higher social
circles he breaks with his faithful Mary Shields. The mystery
of his birth is cleared up in the end, and he succeeds as
lawful heir to the family mansion of the Hardinges. The
campaign of the Land League, with which the Author is in
sympathy, forms the background. The famous letter of Dr. Nulty,
of Meath, is cited as an argument for land reform. Interesting
picture of the peasantry.

=BLAKE-FORSTER, Charles Ffrench.=

⸺ A COLLECTION OF THE OLDEST AND MOST POPULAR LEGENDS OF THE PEASANTRY OF CLARE AND GALWAY.

⸺ THE IRISH CHIEFTAINS; or, A Struggle for the Crown. Pp. 728, demy 8vo. (_M’Glashan & Gill_). 1872.

An account, in the form of a tale, of the Williamite Wars, from
the landing of James II. at Kinsale to the surrender of Galway,
with all the battles and sieges (except Derry). Into this is
woven large sections of the family history of the O’Shaughnessy
and Blake-Forster clans of Co. Galway. This latter story
is carried past the Treaty of Limerick down to the final
dispossession of the O’Shaughnessys in 1770. It includes many
episodes in the history of the Irish Brigade in France and of
the history of the period at home (including the Penal Laws and
the doings of the Rapparees). A surprising amount of erudition
drawn from public and private documents is included in the
volume. The notes occupy from p. 429 to 573. An Appendix,
pp. 574 to end, contains many valuable documents, relating
largely to family history, but also to political history. The
standpoint is Jacobite and national.

=“BLAYNEY, Owen,” Robert White.=

⸺ THE MACMAHON; or, The Story of the Seven Johns. Pp. x + 351. (_Constable_). 6_s._ 1898.

Founded on a County Monaghan tradition. Colonel MacMahon
escaping from the defeat at the Boyne entrusts his infant son
to John M’Kinley, a settler. The boy grows up, falls in love
with M’Kinley’s daughter, and after unsuccessfully pleading
his cause with the father, abducts her. M’Kinley calls to
his aid six other settlers of the name of John, pursues the
fugitives, seizes them, and hangs MacMahon on the windmill at
Carrickmacross. A powerful story giving a faithful picture of
the times. Ulster dialect good.

=[BLENKINSOP, A.]=

⸺ PADDIANA; or, Scraps and Sketches of Irish Life, Past and Present. Two Vols. (_Bentley_). [1847]. Second ed. 1848.

By the Author (an Englishman, _see_ p. 2) of _A Hot Water
Cure_. Contents:—1. “Mr. Smith’s Irish Love.” 2. “Mick Doolan’s
Head.” 3. “Still-Hunting.” 4. “A Mystery among the Mountains.”
5. “The Adventure of Tim Daley.” 6. “Mrs. Fogarty’s Tea
Party.” 7. “A Quiet Day at Farrellstown.” 8. “A Duel.” 9.
“Mr. H⸺.” 10. “The Old Head of Kinsale.” 11. “Barney O’Hay.”
12. “Headbreaking.” 13. “Cads, Fools, and Beggars.” 14. “The
Mendicity Association.” 15. “The Dog-Fancier.” 16. “Dublin
Carmen.” 17. “Horses.” 18. “Priests: Catholic and Others.”
19. “An Irish Stew.” Vol. II.—1. “Executions.” 2. “Ronayne’s
Ghost.” 3. “The Last Pigtail.” 4. “The Green Traveller.” 5.
“Larry Lynch.” 6. “Potatoes.” Then (pp. 142-275) follows “Irish
History”—scraps from various Irish annals and histories, told
in a facetious and anti-Irish spirit. All the old calumnies are
raked up and set down here. The Author concludes that the Irish
are an uncivilized people, and that their national character
is “a jumble of contradictions.” The stories are told with
considerable verve.

=BLESSINGTON, Countess of.= Marguerite Power, born near Clonmel, 1789, daughter of Edmund Power and Ellen Sheehy. In 1818 she married the Earl of Blessington, and became a leader of society in London, afterwards in Paris, and then again in London. Wrote upwards of thirty books—novels, travel, reminiscences, &c. Died 1849.

⸺ THE REPEALERS; or, Grace Cassidy. (LONDON). [1833].

“Contains scarcely any plot and few delineations of character,
the greater part being filled with dialogues, criticisms, and
reflections. Her ladyship is sometimes sarcastic, sometimes
moral, and more frequently personal. One female sketch, that of
Grace Cassidy, a young Irish wife, shows that the Author was
most at home among the scenes of her early days.”—(_Chambers’_
CYCLOPÆDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE).

⸺ COUNTRY QUARTERS. Three Vols. (LONDON: _Shoberl_). [1850]. Port. Second ed. 1852.

In Vol. I., pp. iii.-xxiii., memoir of Author by M. A.
P. Scene: South of Ireland (descriptions of Glanmire and
references to Waterford and to the Blackwater), among county
and garrison people. There is a great deal about their
courtships and marriages, much small talk and pages of
reflections. Grace, the heroine, is loved by two officers,
friendly rivals. Mordaunt makes Vernon propose. V. is refused,
but M. is too poor to marry. However, after many vicissitudes,
Grace is united to M. Full of sentimentality.

=BLOOD SMITH, Miss=, _see_ =“DOROTHEA CONYERS.”=

=BODKIN, M. M’Donnell, K.C.=; County Court Judge of Clare since 1907. Born 1850. Son of Dr. Bodkin, of Tuam, Co. Galway. Educated at Tullabeg Jesuit College; Catholic University. Was for some years Nationalist M.P. for North Roscommon. Besides works of fiction, has published an historical work on Grattan’s Parliament. Resides in Dublin.—(WHO’S WHO).

⸺ POTEEN PUNCH. (_Gill_). 1_s._ 1890.

“After-dinner stories of love-making, fun, and fighting,”
supposed to be told in presence of Lord Carlisle, one of the
Viceroys, in a house at Cong, whither he had been obliged to
go, having been refused a lodging at Maam by order of Lord
Leitrim. The stories are of a very strong nationalist flavour,
some humorous, some pathetic.

⸺ PAT O’ NINE TALES. (_Gill_). 1894. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.90.

Stories of various kinds, all pleasantly told. The first
and longest is a pathetic tale, introducing an eviction
scene vividly described. Among other stories there is “The
Leprachaun,” humorous, and told in dialect; a “ghost” story; a
story of unlooked for evidence at a trial; a tale of Fontenoy,
&c. The last, “The Prodigal Daughter,” is, from its subject,
hardly suitable for certain classes of readers.

⸺ LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD. Pp. 415. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1896.

The story of the earlier years of Lord Edward is woven into the
love-story of one Maurice Blake. Pictures Irish social life
at the time in a lively, vivid way. Hepenstal, the “walking
gallows,” Beresford and his riding school, the infamous
yeomanry and their doings, these are prominent in the book. The
standpoint is strongly national. “History supplies the most
romantic part of this historical romance. The main incidents
of Lord Edward’s marvellous career, even his adoption into
the Indian tribe of the Great Bear, are absolutely true. Some
liberties have, however, been taken with dates.”—(Pref.).

⸺ THE REBELS. Pp. 358. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1899]. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60. 1908.

Sequel to _Lord Edward_. Later years of Lord Edward’s life.
Shows Castlereagh and Clare planning the rebellion. Shows us
Government bribery and dealings with informers. Some glimpses
of the fighting under Father John Murphy, also of Humbert’s
invasion and the Races of Castlebar. A stirring and vigorous
tale, strongly nationalist.

⸺ SHILLELAGH AND SHAMROCK. (_Chatto_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1902.

Short stories dealing mainly with the wild scenes of old
election days. Pictures of evictions and the old-time
fox-hunting, whiskey-drinking landlord. Always on the peasants’
side. Tales full of voluble humour and “go.” The peasants’ talk
is faithfully and vividly reproduced.

⸺ IN THE DAYS OF GOLDSMITH. Pp. 309. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1903.

A panegyric of Goldsmith, dealing with the part of his
life spent in England. Conversations introducing Reynolds,
Beauclerk, Johnson, etc., the latter’s talk recorded with
Boswellian fidelity. A picture, too, of the life and manners of
the day drawn with such frankness as to render the book unfit
for the perusal of certain classes of readers.

⸺ PATSY THE OMADHAUN. Pp. 260. (_Chatto_). 3_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60. 1904.

A dozen short stories, in which the village tailor recounts the
exploits of Patsy, who proves to be by no means the fool he
seems, and extricates himself and his friends from all kinds
of comical situations. All told in broadest brogue. Somewhat
farcical comicality.

⸺ TRUE MAN AND TRAITOR. (_Duffy_). 1910.

The career of Robert Emmet from his Trinity days to his tragic
end, told in the Author’s usual spirited fashion. Emmet is
represented as an able and practical organizer, but the story
of his love for Sarah Curran is not neglected. The historical
facts are thoroughly leavened with romance—Emmet’s perilous
voyage to France in a fishing-hooker, the detailed accounts of
his interviews with Napoleon, the character of Malachi Neelin,
the traitor: these and many other things are blended with the
narrative of real events.

=[BOLES, Agnes], “J. A. P.”=

⸺ THE BELFAST BOY. Pp. 464. (_Nutt_). 5_s._ 1912.

Opens in Belfast during the great riots of twenty-five years
ago. The hero, falsely accused of murder, flees to South
Africa, where he becomes a millionaire, and is known as “The
Belfast Boy.” The heroine, when she is going out to marry him,
omits to mention that she is leaving a son and his father (the
villain) in Belfast. These are conveniently got rid of, one by
lightning, the other by lightning-like small-pox. Several real
persons are introduced as personages in the story. Many of the
incidents are sensational, there is much dialect, and the style
in places is far from refined. An intense love for Belfast and
its surroundings pervades the book.—(_Press Notices_).

=BOVET, Madame.=

⸺ TERRE D’EMERAUDE.

=BOWLES, Emily.=

⸺ IRISH DIAMONDS: A Chronicle of Peterstown. Pp. 219. (_Richardson_). 1864.

A story of landlord and tenant, of illicit distilling, and
of proselytising. A Bible reader, an agent, and the sister
of a landlord are the villains of the piece. Tone strongly
Catholic and anti-Protestant. There is a love interest and a
certain amount of adventure, which are not made subordinate
to the pictures of Souperism. In 1878 a writer in the DUBLIN
REVIEW said of it: “It has not been surpassed since it was
written.... The characters are so well drawn that even those
in barest outline are interesting and individual.... Told in
the brightest, most natural, and most quietly humorous way.”
Miss B. published more than a dozen other books, largely
translations.

=BOYCE, Rev. John, D.D.= [From _Inishowen and Tirconnell_, by W. J. Doherty]. Born in Donegal, 1810. Ordained, Maynooth, 1837. Emigrated to U.S.A., 1845. Died 1864. Besides the three novels mentioned in the body of this work, he published lectures on the Influence of Catholicity on the Arts and Sciences, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth, Charles Dickens, Henry Grattan, &c.

⸺ SHANDY MAGUIRE; or, Tricks upon Travellers. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.75. [1848]. Also (_Richardson_) 1855, and _Warren_, Kilmainham, _n.d._

“First appeared in a Boston periodical, with the pen-name of
Paul Peppergrass. It attracted at once the attention of Bishop
Fenwick of Boston. Dr. Brownson, in his QUARTERLY REVIEW,
pronounced upon the book the highest eulogium, and assigned
to the writer a place equal if not superior to any writers of
Irish romance. _Shandy Maguire_ was recognised by the London
Press and the DUBLIN REVIEW as a work of great merit. It has
been successfully dramatized and translated into German” (from
_Inishowen and Tirconnell_, by W. J. Doherty).

⸺ THE SPAEWIFE: or, The Queen’s Secret. [1853]. Still in print. (BOSTON: _Marlier_). 1.50.

Begins at Hampton Court. The facility with which Father Boyce
makes Nell Gower, the Scotch Spaewife (a woman gifted with
second sight), discourse in broad Scotch dialect, in contrast
with the stately and imperious language of Elizabeth, displays
an unusual power of transition. No finer character could
be depicted than Alice Wentworth, daughter of Sir Geoffrey
Wentworth, the representative of an old English Catholic
baronetage, who suffered persecution under Elizabeth; whilst
Roger O’Brien, attached to the Court of Mary Queen of Scots,
affords an opportunity of presenting the high-spirited and
brave qualities that ought to belong to an Irish gentleman.
Elizabeth appears in anything but a favourable light.

⸺ MARY LEE; or, The Yankee in Ireland. (U.S.A.). (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.75. (BALTIMORE: _Kelly & Piet_). 1864. Pp. 391. Frontisp. by J. Harley.

The last story written by this Author, for whom see General
Note. It is considered to display an intimate knowledge of
Irish character and to contain an excellent description of the
typical Yankee. The scene is Donegal. Time 185-.

=BOYLE, William.= Born in Dromiskin, Co. Louth, 1853; educated St. Mary’s College, Dundalk. Has written many poems, songs, and plays, including some of the best of modern Irish comedies. The atmosphere of his stories is thoroughly Irish and their humour and pathos are genuine.

⸺ A KISH OF BROGUES. (_O’Donoghue_). Pp. 252. 2_s._ 6_d._ 1899.

The humour and pathos of country life, Co. Louth. The Author
knows the people thoroughly, and understands them. There is
much very faithful character-drawing of many Irish peasant
types and a few good poems.

=BOYSE, E. C.=

⸺ THAT MOST DISTRESSFUL COUNTRY. Three Vols. (_F. V. White_). 1886.

A tale of love and marriage. Scene: first in Wexford, opening
with pleasant pictures of country-house life and merry-making.
Then there is an account of some minor incidents of the
rebellion, viewed from loyalist standpoint, with insistence on
savage cruelty of rebels. Then the scene shifts to London, and
thence to Dublin, where we have pictures of life in military
society. Finally, the scene is transferred to Tuam, where word
is brought of Humbert’s campaign in the West. Pleasant style,
but the conversations, full of chaff and nonsense, are long
drawn out. Author says in preface that the incidents are taken
from private letters or accounts of eye-witnesses.

=BRAY, Lady.=

⸺ EVE’S PARADISE. (_Wells, Gardner_). 6_s._ Etched frontispiece and title-page.

“Lady B.’s descriptions of child life are admirable,
well-observed, and cleverly done.”—(PALL MALL GAZETTE).

⸺ A TROUBLESOME TRIO; or, Grandfather’s Wife. (_Wells, Gardner_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Second ed.

=BRERETON, F. S.=

⸺ IN THE KING’S SERVICE. Pp. 352. (_Blackie_). Attractive cover. Eight Illustr. by Stanley L. Wood. (N.Y.: _Scribner_). 1.50. _n.d._ (1901).

Exciting adventures, abounding in dramatic climaxes, of an
English cavalier during Cromwell’s Irish campaign. Chief scenes
of latter described from English cavalier standpoint. Burlesque
brogue. Juvenile.

=BREW, Margaret W.= Wrote much for the IRISH MONTHLY and other Irish periodicals.

⸺ THE BURTONS OF DUNROE. Three Vols. Pp. 934. (_Tinsley_). 1880.

Scene: Munster _c._ 1810, also Dublin and (in third vol.)
Spain, when the hero, William Burton, takes part in the
Peninsular War. Robert marries beneath him, and is disinherited
by disappointed father, who had meant him for his cousin
Isabella. Rose, Robert’s wife dies. Robert goes to the wars,
and returns covered with glory to marry Isabel and settle down
in respectable prosperity. Conventional and a little dull. Much
brogue as comic relief to the prevailing appeal to the tender
feelings.

⸺ CHRONICLES OF CASTLE CLOYNE. Three Vols. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1886.

Highly praised by the TIMES, the STANDARD, the MORNING POST,
the SCOTSMAN, &c., &c. The IRISH MONTHLY says: “It is an
excellent Irish tale, full of truth and sympathy, without
any harsh caricaturing on the one hand, or any patronizing
sentimentality on the other. The heroine, Oonagh M’Dermott, the
Dillons, Pat Flanagan, and Father Rafferty are the principal
personages, all excellent portraits in their way; and some of
the minor characters are very happily drawn. The conversation
of the humbler people is full of wit and common sense; and
the changes of the story give room for pathos sometimes
as a contrast to the humour which predominates. Miss Brew
understands well the Irish heart and language; and altogether
her “Pictures of Munster Life” (for this is the second title
of the tale) is one of the most satisfactory additions to the
store of Irish fiction from _Castle Rackrent_ to _Marcella
Grace_.”

=[BRITTAINE, Rev. George].= Was Rector of Kilcormack, Diocese of Ardagh. Died in Dublin, 1847. The ATHENÆUM of December 14, 1839, said of the first three works mentioned below: “The sad trash which is here put forward as a portraiture of the social condition of the Irish peasantry needs no refutation; in his ardour to calumniate, the Author has forgotten that there are limits to possibility, and that when they are overstepped the intended effect of the libel is lost in its absurdity.” All this writer’s books seem to have appeared anonymously.

⸺ CONFESSIONS OF HONOR DELANY. Pp. 86. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). 1_s._ 6_d._ [1830]. Third ed., 1839.

She admits getting a pension as a reward for “turning.”

⸺ IRISH PRIESTS AND ENGLISH LANDLORDS. Pp. 249. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). [1830]. Second ed., 1839; others 1871, 1879.

“By the author of _Hyacinth O’Gara_.” A priest has authority
from a bishop to marry a girl to a man against her will. She
refuses, and subsequently dies—a martyr for the Protestant
faith.

⸺ RECOLLECTIONS OF HYACINTH O’GARA. Pp. 64. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). 6_d_. Fifth ed., 1839.

The above three books were originally written by Rev. Geo.
Brittaine, Rector of Kilcormack, Co. Limerick. They were
“re-written and completely revised” by Rev. H. Seddall, Vicar
of Dunany, Co. Louth, and published by Hunt, London, 1871.
They are frankly proselytising tales designed “to give a
true picture of the Irish peasantry, and how priestcraft has
wound itself into all their concerns.” (Pref.) The peasantry
are represented as exceedingly debased, the priesthood as
conscienceless and selfish tyrants. Religion is practically the
sole theme throughout. There is practically no reference to
contemporary questions. One reviewer says: “There is nothing
more graphic in all the pages of _The Absentee_, or _Castle
Rackrent_ than the account of Kit M’Royster’s disclosures to
his brother, the Popish Bishop, about the heretical purity
of their niece; or the description of Priest Moloney’s
oratory about the offerings at the funeral of old Mrs.
O’Brien.”—CHRISTIAN EXAMINER.

⸺ IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN. Pp. 219. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). 1831.

⸺ JOHNNY DERRIVAN’S TRAVELS. Pp. 36. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). 6_d._ [1833]. Second ed., 1839.

Not religious in subject. Deals with Irish amusements,
drinking, &c.

⸺ MOTHERS AND SONS. Pp. 297. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). 1833.

A lady turns Methodist at the age of 44. The Author thereby
takes occasion to condemn dyed hair and wigs, and many other
things. The story includes a murder of which a Curate is the
victim. The murderer dies howling for the priest.

⸺ NURSE M’VOURNEEN. Pp. 33. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). Second ed., _c._ 1839.

⸺ THE ELECTION. Pp. 331. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). 1840.

Election manœuvres described. There is a murder in the story.
Tone very anti-Catholic.

=[BRONTE, Rev. Patrick, B.A.].= 1777-1861. A county Down man, father of the famous novelists.

⸺ THE MAID OF KILLARNEY; or, Albion and Flora. Pp. 166. (_Baldwin_). [1818]. 1898.

Albion, an Englishman, visits Killarney, and falls in love with
Flora Loughlean. The tale exhibits the anti-Catholic bias of
the time.

=BROOKE, Richard Sinclair, D.D.= (1802-1882). Incumbent of Mariners’ Church, Kingstown, afterwards Rector of Eyton. Published several volumes of verse and prose. Father of Stopford Brooke.

⸺ THE STORY OF PARSON ANNALY. Pp. 429. (_Drought_). 1870.

A long, rather involved story, in part reprinted from DUBLIN
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. It contains some excellent descriptions of
Donegal scenery—Glenveagh and Barnesmore.

=BROPHY, Michael=, ex-Sergeant, R.I.C.

⸺ TALES OF THE ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY. Pp. xx. + 192. (DUBLIN: _Bernard Doyle_). 2_s._ [1888]. 1896.

Intended as the first volume of a series. Introduction gives
a condensed history of the Force. This is followed by a long
story founded on facts—“The Lord of Kilrush, Fate of Marion,
and Last Vicissitudes of Lord Edward Fitzgerald’s Estate.” This
tells how Sub-Constable Butler, a real “character,” bought in
the Encumbered Estates Court the property of Lord Edward near
the Curragh of Kildare, but was subsequently dispossessed—a
curious tale, containing much out-of-the-way information,
including an enquiry into the parentage of Pamela. Then follow
“Episodes of ’48” (Ballingarry, &c.), and “The Story of a
Sword,” (8 pp.) Sub-Constable Butler and Sub-Inspector Tom
Trant are amusing personages.

=BROWN, Rev. J. Irwin.= Minister of the Scottish Church in Rotterdam, and son of Rev. Dr. Brown, of Drumachose, Derry, in his time a well-known public speaker, and a defender of the Irish tenant farmers.

⸺ IRELAND: Its Humour and Pathos. (ROTTERDAM: _J. M. Bredee_). 1910.

The book contains some racy stories, and is bright and readable
throughout.—I.B.L.

=BRUEYRE, Loys.= Born in Paris, 1835. A French folk-lorist, Vice-President of the _Société des Traditions Populaires_. A frequent contributor to French folk-lore periodicals.

⸺ CONTES POPULAIRES DE LA GRANDE BRETAGNE. Pp. 382. (PARIS: _Hachette_).

Contains 100 tales. A very few are English (chiefly Cornish),
none are Welsh. The majority are Scotch (largely from
Campbell’s collection) but there are a good many Irish, taken
from Croker and Kennedy. The book is entirely in French.

=BUCHANAN, Robert=, 1841-1901. Born in Staffordshire, son of Robert B., “Socialist, Missionary, and Journalist.” Educated at Glasgow. Published many volumes of poetry and several plays, among others a dramatised version of Harriett Jay’s _Queen of Connaught_ (_q.v._). In 1876 published his first novel—_The Shadow of the Sword_. Many others followed. In 1874 he settled at Rosspoint, Co. Mayo, but left Ireland in 1877. _Father Anthony_ was written during this period, but not published till later. _See_ the notice in D.N.B., and the LIFE, published in 1903, by Harriet Jay, his adopted daughter.

⸺ FATHER ANTHONY. (_Long_). 6_s._ Sixteen illustr. Many editions. 1903. New edition, 6_d._ 1911.

Scene: a country village in the West of Ireland. Father Anthony
is a young priest, who for his brother’s sake has sacrificed
a career in the world to devote himself to God’s poor. He
finds himself called upon in virtue of his sacred office to
keep the secret of the confessional when by a word he could
save his brother from the hangman’s hands. The pathos of the
young priest’s agony of mind is depicted with great power and
sympathy. The other priest, Father John, is drawn as the true
parish priest of the old type, blood and bone of the people,
jovial, homely, lovable and beloved. The Author, though alien
in faith and race, tells us that he knew intimately and loved
both priests and people during his stay in Ireland.

⸺ THE PEEP-O’-DAY BOY: A Romance of ’98. (_Dicks_). 6_d._ _n.d._

A conventional sensational tale, little above the “shilling
shocker,” with oath-bound societies meeting in under-ground
caverns, abductions, informers, an absentee landlord, the
Earl of Dromore, whose daughter loves the expatriated owner,
The O’Connormore, and soforth. The three chapters on the
insurrection are from Cassell’s _History of Ireland_. The story
is scarcely worthy of this Author.

=BUCKLEY, William.= Born in Cork, and educated there at St. Vincent’s Seminary and the Queen’s College. His first literary work appeared in MACMILLAN’S MAGAZINE. Resides in Dublin.

⸺ CROPPIES LIE DOWN. Pp. 511. (_Duckworth_). 6_s._ 1903.

Scene: Wexford, the year of the rising. The Author banishes
all romance and artistic glamour, and deals with the horrors
of the time in a spirit of relentless realism. Quite apart
from historical interest, the book is thrilling as a story of
adventure. The tone is impartial, but the writer clearly means
the events and scenes described to tell for the Irish side.
The NEW IRELAND REVIEW says that “it sketches the origin
and course of the Wexford insurrection with a conscientious
accuracy which would do credit to a professed historian”; and
it praises the Author’s “exceptional literary ability” and the
“intense reality of his characters.” “Rather more than justice
is done to the English authorities (_e.g._, Castlereagh),
to the Irish Protestants, and even to the government
spies.”—(_Baker_, 2).

⸺ CAMBIA CARTY AND OTHER STORIES. Pp. 230. (_Maunsel_). 1_s._ 1907.

Close descriptions of lower and middle classes in modern
Youghal. In places will be unpleasant reading for the people
of Youghal. Picture of Cork snobbery decidedly unfavourable to
Cork people, and on the whole disagreeable and sordid.

=BUGGE, Alexander=, Professor in University of Christiania, ed.

⸺ CATHREIM CELLACHAIN CAISIL: The Victorious Career of Cellachain of Cashel. Pp. xix. + 171. (_Christiania_). 1905.

The original Irish text, from the Book of Lismore, is edited in
a scholarly way and accompanied with an English translation,
notes, and index. There is an interesting introduction. It is a
story of the struggles of Cellachan and the Danes in the tenth
century.

=BULLOCK, Shan F.= Born Co. Fermanagh, 1865. Son of a Protestant landowner on Lough Erne. Depicts with vigour and truth the country where the Protestant North meets the Catholic and almost Irish-speaking West. There is at times a curious dreariness in his outlook which mars his popularity. But his work is “extraordinarily sincere, and at times touched with a singular pathos and beauty.... He writes always with evident passion for the beauty of his country, and an almost pathetic desire to assimilate, as it were, national ideals, of which one yet perceives him a little incredulous.”—(_Stephen Gwynn_).

⸺ THE AWKWARD SQUADS. (_Cassell_). 5_s._ 1893.

The Author’s first book. Has all the qualities for which his
subsequent books are remarkable. It is a study of the people
of his native country—the borders of Cavan and Fermanagh—their
political ideas, general outlook, humours and failings,
their peculiar dialect and turns of thought. Four stories in
all:—“The title story,” “The White Terror,” “A State Official,”
“One of the Unfortunates.”

⸺ BY THRASNA RIVER. Pp. 403. (_Ward, Lock)_. 6_s._ Illustr. 1895.

The experiences of two lads on an Ulster farm in the district
where the Author lays nearly all his scenes. There are many
clever studies of peasant types. The hero is an Englishman, an
amusing character. The story of his unsuccessful love-affair
with the “Poppy Charmer” is told by one of the lads familiar
to us as Jan Farmer. There is no approach to anything
objectionable in the book. Chapter XXI., “Our Distressful
Country,” is good reading.

⸺ RING O’ RUSHES. Pp. 195. (_Ward, Lock_). 1_s._ 6_d._ (CHICAGO: _Stone_). 1.00. 1896.

A cycle of eleven stories dealing with various aspects of
Ulster life in the neighbourhood of Lough Erne. In “His
Magnificence” an enriched peasant returns to his native
village and tries to show off his grandeur. “Her Soger Boy”
recounts a mother’s innocent fraud and her soldier lad’s savage
retaliation.—(_Baker_, 2).

⸺ THE BARRYS. Pp. 422. (_Methuen_). 1_s._ Full-sized cloth. 1899. (N.Y.: _Doubleday_). 1.25.