Chapter VI: Book I: has its scene on Innishrath, an island in Lough Erne (2)

Ten stories of various types. The majority are of the
high-class magazine type and very up-to-date in subject and
treatment, but here and there one comes upon bits of real life
observed at first hand and pictured with genuine feeling.
Several are Irish-American, and their interest turns on the
sorrow and hardship of emigration. The last, “By the Way,” in
which Sergeant Maguire, R.I.C., spins yarns, is full of the
most genuine Irish humour (dialect perfect), and is a fine
piece of story-telling.

=CONYERS, Dorothea.= Born 1871. Daughter of Colonel J. Blood Smyth, Fedamore, Co. Limerick. Has published, besides the works here mentioned, _Recollections of Sport in Ireland_. Resides near Limerick. It may be said of her books in general that they are humorous, lively stories of Irish sport, full of incident, with quick perception of the surfaces and broad outlines of character. Her _dramatis personæ_ are hunting people, garrison officers, horse dealers, and the peasantry seen more or less from their point of view.

⸺ THE THORN BIT. Pp. 332. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1900.

An earlier effort, with the Author’s qualities not yet
developed. Society in a small country town, days with the
hounds, clever situations.

⸺ PETER’S PEDIGREE. Pp. 326. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1904.

Perhaps the best of the lot. Hunting, horse-dealing, and
love-making in Co. Cork.

⸺ AUNT JANE AND UNCLE JAMES. Pp. 342. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1908.

A sequel to the last, with the same vivid descriptions of
“runs” and “deals.” A murder trial enters into the plot.

⸺ THE BOY, SOME HORSES, AND A GIRL. Pp. 307. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1908.

Of the same type as the last and scarcely inferior. Irish
peasants and servants are described with much truth as well as
humour. Full of glorious hunts and pleasant hunting people.

⸺ THREE GIRLS AND A HERMIT. Pp. 328. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1908.

Life in a small garrison town. Many droll situations.

⸺ THE CONVERSION OF CON CREGAN. Pp. 327. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1909.

Thirteen stories, dealing mostly with horses and hunting. Full
of shrewd wit and kindly humour. Shows a good knowledge of
Irish life and character, and an understanding of the relations
between the classes. One of the stories is a novel in itself.

⸺ THE STRAYINGS OF SANDY. Pp. 362. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ and 1_s._ 1909.

The externals of Irish country life as seen by a London
business man on a holiday. Study of Irish character as seen
chiefly in sporting types—needy, good-natured, spendthrift—as
contrasted with the Englishman, wealthy, businesslike, and
miserly. Contact with Irish life softens the Englishman’s
asperities. Full of genuinely humorous and amusing adventures
of Sandy with race-horses and hounds, and other things.
The brogue is not overdone and we are not, on the whole,
caricatured. Scene: West coast.

⸺ TWO IMPOSTORS AND TINKER. Pp. 344. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1910.

One impostor is Derrick Bourke Herring who, under his namesake
cousin’s name, took up the Mullenboden hounds, and the other
was his sister Jo who, in man’s clothes, acted as whip. Tinker
is a yellow mongrel who does many wonderful things in the
course of the story. The main interest centres in the doings
of these three, chiefly in the hunting field. A melodramatic
element is introduced by the attempt of the father of the
wealthy heiress Grania Hume to steal her jewels. Of course
there are love affairs also. A breezy story, with much lively
incident and pleasant humour.

⸺ SOME HAPPENINGS OF GLENDALYNE. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1911.

Eve O’Neill is under the guardianship of The O’Neill, an
eccentric, rapidly growing into a maniac. His mania is
religious, he has a passion for horse-racing, and keeps
the heir Hugh O’Neill (supposed to be dead) shut up in
a deserted wing of the old mansion. Here this latter is
accidentally discovered by Eve, and then there are thrilling
adventures. Atmosphere throughout weird and terrifying in
the manner of Lefanu. Peasantry little understood and almost
caricatured.—(_Press Notice_).

⸺ THE ARRIVAL OF ANTONY. Pp. 348. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1912.

Anthony Doyle, brought up from childhood in Germany, and with
the breeding of a gentleman, comes home to help his old uncle,
a horsedealer living in an old-fashioned thatched farmhouse
in a remote country district in Ireland. Tells of the wholly
inexperienced Antony’s adventures among horse-sharpers, of his
devotion to his old uncle, and of the social barriers that for
long keep him aloof from his own class and from his future
wife. The backwardness and slovenliness of Irish life are a
good deal exaggerated, but the story is very cleverly told,
with a good deal of dry humour. The Author’s satire is not
hostile.

⸺ SALLY. Pp. 307. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1912.

How Sally Stannard charms the hero from his melancholia more
efficaciously than the hunting in Connemara on which he was
relying for his cure. Has all the appearances of a story dashed
off carelessly and in haste for the publishers. Nothing in it
is studied or finished.

⸺ OLD ANDY. Pp. 309. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1914.

Peasant life in Co. Limerick.

⸺ A MIXED PACK. Pp. 296. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1915.

A collection of stories of very various type—hunting sketches,
the strange experience of an engine driver, the adventures of a
traveller for a firm of jewellers.

⸺ MEAVE. Pp. 336. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1915.

Here the scene is laid in England, and the characters are
English, all but a wild little Irish girl, Meave, who plays one
of the chief parts. The story is full of hunting scenes.

=CONYNGHAM, Major David Power, LL.D.; “Allen H. Clington.”= Born in Killenaule, Co. Tipperary. Took part, along with his kinsman Charles Kickham, in the rising of 1848. Fought in the American Civil War in the ’Sixties, after which he engaged in journalism until his death in 1883. Wrote many works on Irish and American subjects.

⸺ FRANK O’DONNELL: a Tale of Irish life; edited by “Allen H. Clington.” Pp. 370. (_Duffy_). 5_s._ 1861.

Tipperary in the years before (and during) the Famine of 1846.
Glimpses of Tipperary homes, both clerical and lay. Almost
every aspect of Irish life at the time is pictured—the Famine,
Souperism, an Irish agent and his victims (ch. xii.), how St.
Patrick’s Day is kept, Irish horse races (ch. ii.), &c. “I
have shewn how the people are made the catspaw of aspiring
politicians [elections are described] and needy landlords.”
Author says the characters are taken from real life. They
are for the most part very well drawn, _e.g._, Mr. Baker, “a
regular Jack Falstaff,” full of boast about wonderful but
wholly imaginary exploits; and Father O’Donnell. A pleasant
little love-story runs through the book. The whole is racy
of the soil. The dialect is good, but the conversations of
the upper class are artificial and scarcely true to life.
Introduces the episode of the execution of the Bros. C⸺ in N⸺.

⸺ SARSFIELD; or, The Last Great Struggle for Ireland. (BOSTON: _Donahue_). Port. of Sarsfield. 1871.

The Author calls this a historical romance, but the element
of romance is very small. Ch. I. gives a backward glance over
Ireland’s national struggle in the past. The nominal hero
is Hugh O’Donnell and the heroine Eveleen, granddaughter of
Florence McCarthy, killed on the Rhine. But Sarsfield is
the central figure, and the Author contrives to give us his
whole career. There is plenty of exciting incident, partly
fictitious—forays of the Rapparees, captures, escapes. In spite
of the schemes of the villain rival, Saunders, hero and heroine
are united. The historical standpoint seems fair if not quite
impartial.

⸺ THE O’DONNELLS OF GLEN COTTAGE. Pp. 498. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). _n.d._ (1874). Still in print.

Scene: Tipperary during the Famine years. The fortunes of
a family in the bad times. Famine and eviction and death
wreck its peace, and things are only partially righted after
many years. The author, whose view-point is nationalist
and Catholic, vividly describes the evils of the time—the
terrible sufferings of the Famine, eviction as carried out
by a heartless agent, souperism in the person of Rev. Mr.
Sly, judicial murder as exemplified by the execution of the
M’Cormacks.

⸺ THE O’MAHONY, CHIEF OF THE COMERAGHS. Pp. 268. (N.Y.: _Sadlier_). 1879.

A tale of Co. Waterford in 1798, written from a strongly Irish
and Catholic standpoint. Depicts the tyranny of the Protestant
gentry, the savagery of the yeomanry. Typical scenes are
introduced, _e.g._, a flogging at the cart’s tail through the
streets of Clonmel, seizures for tithes, the execution of
Father Sheehy (an avowed anachronism), &c. Chief historical
personages: Sir Judkin Fitzgerald, the “flogging” Sheriff, and
Earl Kingston. A vivid picture, though obviously partisan, and
marred by some inartistic melodrama.

⸺ ROSE PARNELL, THE FLOWER OF AVONDALE. Pp. 429. (N.Y.: _Sadlier_). 1883.

A tale of the rebellion of ’98.

=COSTELLO, Mary.=

⸺ PEGGY THE MILLIONAIRE. (_C.T.S. of Ireland: Iona Series_). 1_s._ 1910.

The story of an Irish girl living in “Loughros,” in the West
of Ireland, some fifty years ago. She is the third and plain
daughter of a disappointed “fine lady,” who has married a
country doctor out of pique, and rues her fate for the rest of
her life, as she cannot appreciate her husband’s good heart
and he cannot give her luxuries and grandeur. To this home
Peggy comes from school. And the book tells us, with plenty of
good fun in the telling, how she made her fortune and how she
scattered happiness and blessings around her.—(_Press Notice_).

=COTTON, Rev. S. G.=

⸺ THE THREE WHISPERS, AND OTHER TALES. Pp. 256. (DUBLIN: _Robertson_). _c._ 1850.

In the title story we have two attempted suicides of parents
distraught with grief, the return of a former convict, and an
inheritance for the people who were dying with hunger. Dublin
is the scene. The next story, “Grace Kennedy,” takes place in
the Queen’s Co.: a mother murders her boy, the sister holds the
corpse to the fire and “nestles beside him.” In “The Foundling”
the mother drowns herself, but some charitable Protestants
rescue her child and bring him up in their religion. “Ellen
Seaton” tells how Ellen’s father goes off to be a priest and
her mother to be a nun, and deals with the efforts made by
priests and nuns to get hold of her. Finally she converts her
nun jailer and both escape. In some of these stories the Author
introduces very vulgar brogue, with coarse expressions.

=CRAIG, Richard Manifold=, 1845-1913. Born in Dublin, and educated there. He entered the army as surgeon, and retired with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. His other works of fiction—_A Widow Well Left_, _All Trumps_, _A Sacrifice of Fools_, &c.—do not deal with Irish subjects.

⸺ THE WEIRD OF “THE SILKEN THOMAS.” Pp. 230. (ABERDEEN: _Moran_). 1900.

The story of how Lord Thomas Fitzgerald was drawn into revolt
by the treachery of a private enemy. Purports to be a narrative
written at the time by Martyn Baruch Fallon, “scrivener and
cripple,” a loyal inhabitant of Maynooth, with some account
of the latter’s private affairs. Written in quaint, antique
language difficult to follow, especially at the outset of the
book. It seems of little value from an historical point of view.

⸺ LANTY RIORDAN’S RED LIGHT.

I am not certain whether this story appeared in book form. It
is not in the B. Museum Library.

=CRAIG, J. Duncan, D.D.=

⸺ BRUCE REYNALL, M.A. Pp. 271. (_Elliot Stock_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1898.

Author of “Real Pictures of Clerical Life in Ireland,” and of
several learned works. A story of an Oxford man who came to
Ireland as _locum tenens_ in the most disturbed time, and found
life a good deal more exciting than at his English curacy.
The Orangemen are very favourably represented. In the preface
to the following work the Author says of this, “The Reign of
Terror which prevailed in Ireland while the horrors of the Land
League were brooding over the land, and a picture of which I
have endeavoured to delineate in _Bruce Reynall_.”

⸺ REAL PICTURES OF CLERICAL LIFE IN IRELAND. Pp. 351. (_Elliot Stock_). [1875]. 1900.

The first six chapters are autobiographical, the remaining
sixty-five are a series of anecdotes and stories in which
the Catholic clergy and the doctrines of the Church appear
to great disadvantage. The lawlessness and brutality of the
peasantry are also much insisted on, and the conversion of
Ireland to Protestantism seems to obsess the writer. Some of
the incidents related are improbable in the extreme, and it is
not clear from the Preface to what extent the Author intended
them as narratives of actual fact. At all events they are told
in the form of fiction. There are also gruesome reminiscences
of agrarian disturbances and of the Fenian outbreak, and a
chapter against Home Rule. The Author was born in Dublin in
the twenties, of Scottish parents. He went to T.C.D. in 1847.
He was long Vicar of Kinsale. He was remarkable as the author
of several important works on the Provençal language and
literature. He died in 1909.

=CRANE, Stephen, and BARR, Robert.=

⸺ THE O’RUDDY. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1904.

Has been well described as a fairy story for grown-ups, with
plenty of humorous incident—love affairs, duels, &c. The
O’Ruddy is a reckless, rollicking, lovable character. There is
little or no connexion with real life.—(THE ACADEMY).

=CRAWFORD, Mrs. A.=

⸺ LISMORE. Three Vols. (LONDON: _Newby_). 1853.

A rambling and sentimental tale, the scene of which is Southern
Ireland (Lismore and Ardmore) and Italy in 1659-60. It is in
no sense historical, nor does the Author seem to have any
knowledge of the period dealt with. The personages live in
“suburbs” and ring the “breakfast-bell.” An amusing ignorance
of Catholic matters is evidenced. The plot is confused and
without unity.

=CRAWFORD, Mary S.; “Coragh Travers.”=

⸺ HAZEL GRAFTON. Pp. 350. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1911.

Hazel leaves Bournemouth and her school days and two rejected
suitors—both curates—to live with her adoring parents in the
W. of Ireland. She and Denis Martin fall in love, but the
course of love does not run smooth. The two are kept apart
by their parents, who are intent on other matches. A quarrel
completes the breach, but all comes right in the end by help
of a divorce and a death. Trips to Dublin and to Bundoran and
the performances of a genuine stage-Irishman are introduced to
enliven the tale.

=CRAWFORD, Michael George.=

⸺ LEGENDARY STORIES OF THE CARLINGFORD LOUGH DISTRICT. Pp. 201, close print. (NEWRY: _Offices of “The Frontier Sentinel”_). 1_s._ 1914.

Thirty-four stories, embodying the legends of a district
exceptionally rich in memories of old Gaelic Ireland—Cuchulain
and the Red Branch—and also with great Irish-Norman families
like the De Courcys and De Burgos. By a writer thoroughly
acquainted with the district.

=CRICHTON, Mrs. F. E.= Born in Belfast, 1877; educated at a private school near Richmond. Travelled much in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. Besides the three novels noted below she publ. some short stories, a little book _The Precepts of Andy Saul_, based on the character of an old gardener, and some books for children.

⸺ THE SOUNDLESS TIDE. Pp. 328. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1911.

Life of country gentry and peasantry in County Down. With the
latter the Author is particularly effective, bringing out their
characteristics with quiet “pawky” humour. Especially, there is
Mrs. M’Killop and her wise saws. But the Colonel and his wife
are also very well drawn. There is pathos as well as humour.
Noteworthy also are the descriptions of sea-coast scenery, and
the story of the fight on the “twalth”—(I.B.L.). It is a simple
tale of lover’s misunderstandings. Religious strife is pictured
with perhaps undue insistence.

⸺ TINKER’S HOLLOW. Pp. 336. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1912.

A charming and delicately-told love story, with a background
of life among the Presbyterians (both the better class, and
the peasantry and servants) near a small town in Co. Antrim.
Shows an intimate and sympathetic knowledge of the people that
furnishes the characters of the story. The dialect is perfectly
reproduced. There is a pleasant picture of the bright and
sunny Sally Bruce growing from girlhood into womanhood amid
the dull austerity of Coole House, in the society of her two
maiden aunts and her bachelor uncle. There are pleasant gleams
of Northern humour, not a few gems of rustic philosophy, and
vignettes of Antrim scenery. The human interest is, however,
strongest of all.

⸺ THE BLIND SIDE OF THE HEART. Pp. 299. (_Maunsel_). 6_s._ 1915.

The story of Dick Sandford’s choice between his cousin
Betty—English like himself—bright, charming, wholly of this
world, and Ethne Blake whom he meets while on a visit to
Ireland. The book is really a study, or rather an imaginative
presentment of this strange, almost unearthly, figure as
typifying the mystic, faery side of the Celtic temperament,
and of the background of haunted Irish landscape and peasant
fairy-lore, against which she moves. The vital difference in
the two temperaments, Celt and Saxon, is suggested throughout.
The peasantry of the remote mountain glens are pictured with
sympathy and insight.

=CROKER, Mrs. B. M.=, wife of Lieut.-Col. Croker, late Royal Munster Fusiliers; daughter of Rev. W. Sheppard, Rector of Kilgefin, Co. Roscommon; educated at Rockferry, Cheshire. She spent fourteen years in the East, whence the Eastern subjects of some of her novels. These number nearly forty. She resides for the most part in London and Folkestone.

⸺ A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Pp. 366. (_Chatto & Windus_). [1886.] New edition. 1903.

A love story, beginning in the Andamans. There is a lively
picture of garrison life, including the clever portrait of
the “leading lady” (and tyrant), Mrs. Creery. The lovers are
separated by the scheming of an unsuccessful rival. The girl
first lives a Cinderella life, with disagreeable relations in
London, then is a governess, and finally (p. 256) goes to a
relation in Ireland. Then there are amusing studies of Irish
types—carmen (Larry Flood, with his famous “Finnigan’s mare”),
and servants, and a family of broken-down gentry. Things come
right in the end.

⸺ IN THE KINGDOM OF KERRY. (_Chatto & Windus_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1896.

“Seven sketchy little stories of poor folk, written in light
and merry style.”—(_Baker_).

⸺ BEYOND THE PALE. (_Chatto & Windus_). 3_s._ 6_d._ and 6_d._ (N.Y.: _Fenno_). 0.50. 1897.

Story of an Irish girl of good family, who is obliged to train
horses for a living, but ends successfully. Scene: a hunting
county three hours’ journey from Dublin. Much stress is laid
on the feudal spirit of the peasantry, who are viewed from the
point of view of the upper classes, but sympathetically.

⸺ TERENCE. Pp. 342. (_Chatto & Windus_). 6_s._ Six illustr. by Sidney Paget. (N.Y.: _Buckles_). 1.25. 1899.

Scene: an anglers’ hotel in Waterville, Co. Kerry, and the
neighbourhood, which the Author knows and describes well. A
tale of love and foolish jealousy. The personages belong to
the Protestant upper classes. The chief interest is in the
working out of the plot, which is well sustained all through.
“Contains comedy of a broad and sometimes vulgar kind, turning
on jealousy and scandal.”—(_Baker_ 2).

⸺ JOHANNA. Pp. 315. (_Methuen_). 1903.

The story of a beautiful but very stupid peasant girl who,
forced by a tyrannical stepmother to fly from her home in
Kerry, sets off for Dublin. On the way she loses the address
of the house she is going to, is snapped up by the keeper of a
lodging-house, and there lives as a slavey a life of dreadful
drudgery and of suffering from unpleasant boarders.

⸺ A NINE DAYS’ WONDER. Pp. 310. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ [1905].

How Mary Foley, brought up for twenty-one years in an Irish
cabin, is suddenly claimed as his daughter by an English
peer, and becomes Lady Joseline Dene. How she gives Society a
sensation by her countrified speech and manners, and by her
too truthful and pointed remarks, but carries it by storm in
the end, and marries her early love. The writer has a good
knowledge of the talk of the lower middle classes. There is no
bias in the story, which is a thoroughly pleasant one.

⸺ LISMOYLE: an Experiment in Ireland. Pp. 384. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1914.

The six months’ visit of a young English heiress to the
stately, dilapidated mansion of Lismoyle, in the Co. Tipperary,
involving a comedy of courtship, many amusing situations, and
some description of the small social affairs of the county. No
Irish “problem” is touched upon.

The Scenes of some others of her novels are laid partly in
Ireland, _e.g._, TWO MASTERS (_Chatto_), 1890; and INTERFERENCE
(_Chatto_), 1894.

=CROKER, T. Crofton.= Born in Cork, 1798; died in London, 1854. Was one of the most celebrated of Irish antiquaries, folk-lorists, and collectors of ancient airs. He helped to found the Camden Society (1839), the Percy Society (1840), and the British Archæological Association (1843). Was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and of many Continental societies. Wrote or edited a great number of works. His leisure hours were spent in rambles in company with a Quaker gentleman of tastes similar to his own. In these excursions he gained that intimate knowledge of the people, their ideas, traditions, and tales, which he afterwards turned to good account.

⸺ LEGENDS OF THE LAKES. [1829]. Illustr. by Maclise.

Killarney. A series of stories, similar to those in the _Fairy
Legends_, of fairies, ghosts, banshees, &c.

⸺ KILLARNEY LEGENDS. Pp. 294. 16mo. (LONDON: _Fisher_). Some steel engravings (quite fanciful). [1831]. Second edition, 1879.

An abbreviated ed. of _Legends of the Lakes_. Second ed. was
edited by Author’s son, T. F. D. Croker. Topographical Index.

⸺ FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. New and complete edition. Illustr. by Maclise & Green. 1882.

First appeared 1825; often republished since. Classified under
the headings:—The Shefro; the Cluricaune; the Banshee; the
Phooka; Thierna na oge (_sic_); the Merrow; the Dullahan,
&c. “I make no pretension to originality, and avow at once
that there is no story in my book which has not been told
by half the old women of the district in which the scene
is laid. I give them as I found them” (Pref.). This is the
first collection of Irish folk-lore apart from the peddler’s
chap-books. Dr. Douglas Hyde (Pref. to _Beside the Fire_) calls
this a delightful book, and speaks of Croker’s “light style,
his pleasant parallels from classics and foreign literature,
and his delightful annotations,” but says that he manipulated
for the English market, not only the form, but often the
substance, of his stories. Scott praised the book very highly
in the notes to the 1830 ed. of the _Waverley Novels_, as well
as in his _Demonology and Witchcraft_. The original ed. was
trans. into German by the Bros. Grimm, 1826, and into French by
P. A. Dufour, 1828.

=CROKER, Mrs. T. Crofton.=

⸺ BARNEY MAHONEY. [1832].

“Has for a hero an Irish peasant, who conceals under a vacant
countenance and blundering demeanour shrewdness, quick
wit, and, despite a touch of rascality, real kindness of
heart.”—(_Krans_).

=CROMARTIE, Countess of; Sibell Lilian Mackenzie, Viscountess of Tarbat, Baroness of Castlehaven and Macleod.= Born 1878. Lives at Castle Leod, Strathpeffer, N.B. Publ. _The End of the Song_, 1904, _The Web of the Past_, _The Golden Guard_, &c.

⸺ SONS OF THE MILESIANS. Pp. 306. (_Eveleigh, Nash_). 1906.

Short stories, some Irish, some Highland Scotch, somewhat in
the manner of Fiona MacLeod’s beautiful _Barbaric Tales_. The
stories deal with various periods from the time of the Emperor
Julian to the present day, and they are vivid pictures of
life and manners at these different epochs. The standpoint is
thoroughly Gaelic, and there is much pathos and much beauty in
the tales.

⸺ THE DAYS OF FIRE. Pp. 114. (_Wellby_). Artistic cover in white and gold. 1908.

The scene is laid in Ireland in the days of the first
Milesians, but does not deal with historical events. Tells of
the love of Heremon the King for a beautiful slave. Full of
sensuous description in a smooth, dreamy style. Frankly pagan
in spirit.

⸺ THE GOLDEN GUARD. Pp. 407. (_Allen_). 6_s._ 1912.

“A tale of ‘far off things and battles long ago,’ when King
Heremon the Beautiful, who reigned at Tara over Milesian and
Phoenician ..., fought with his Golden Guard against the
Northern Barbarians. Lady Cromartie gives fire and passion to
the shadowy figures, filling her imaginative pages with crowded
hours of love and fighting, toil, pleasure, and vigorous
life.”—(T. LIT. SUPPL.).

=CROMIE, Robert.= Born at Clough, Co. Down, the son of Dr. Cromie. Was on the staff of Belfast NORTHERN WHIG, and died suddenly about ten years ago.

⸺ THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS. Pp. 326. (_Ward & Locke_). 6_s._ 1902.

A sympathetic study of Ulster Presbyterian life is the
background for the romance, ending in tragedy, of a young
minister. Besides the occasional dialect (well handled) there
is little of Ireland in the book, but the story is told with
much skill, and never flags. Bromley, an unbeliever, almost a
cynic, but a true man and unselfish to the point of heroism, is
a remarkable study. The author has also published _The Crack of
Doom_, _The King’s Oak_, _For England’s Sake_, &c.

=CROMMELIN, May de la Cherois.= Born in Ireland. Daughter of late S. de la Cherois Crommelin, of Carrowdore Castle, Co. Down, a descendant of Louis Crommelin, a Huguenot refugee, who founded the linen trade in Ulster. Educated at home. Early life spent in Ireland; resided since in London; has travelled much. Publ. more than thirty novels.—(WHO’S WHO). _Queenie_ was the Author’s first novel. _A Jewel of a Girl_ deals with Ireland and Holland.

⸺ ORANGE LILY. Two Vols., afterwards One Vol. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 1879.

The story of Lily Keag, daughter of a Co. Down Orangeman,
who, to the disgust of her social circle, falls in love with
her father’s servant boy. The latter goes to America, and
thence returns, a wealthy man, to claim Lily. The scenery is
well described and the dialect well rendered. A healthy and
high-toned novel.

⸺ BLACK ABBEY. Pp. 447. (_Sampson, Low_). [1880]. 1882.

We are first introduced to a delightful circle, the three
children of Black Abbey (somewhere in Co. Down) and those about
them, their German governess and Irish nurse and their playmate
Bella, born in America, granddaughter of the old Presbyterian
minister. The picture of their home-life is pleasant and
life-like, with a vein of quiet humour. Then they grow up
and things no longer run smoothly. Bella, by her marriage,
well-nigh wrecks four lives, including her own, but things seem
to be righting themselves as the story closes. The dialect of
the Northern servants is very well done. The tone of the book
is most wholesome though by no means “goody-goody.”

⸺ DIVIL-MAY-CARE; alias Richard Burke, sometime Adjutant of the Black Northerns. Pp. x. + 306. (_F. V. White_). 6_s._ 1899.

A series of humorous and exciting episodes, forming the
adventures of an officer home from India on sick leave. Most of
them are located in Antrim. No religious or political bias, but
a tinge of the stage Irishman.

⸺ THE GOLDEN BOW. (_Holden & Hardingham_). 6_s._ _c._ 1912.

Story of the sorrows and suitors, from her unhappy childhood
to a happy engagement, of an Irish girl, who is poor, proud,
and pretty. A lovable character is Judith’s crippled sister
Melissa. Scene: N. of Ireland. There is a good deal of dialect,
and the ways of the peasantry are faithfully depicted.

=CROSBIE, Mary.= Born in England. Educated privately and at various English schools. Has frequently visited and stayed in Ireland. Her first novel, _Disciples_, was publ. in 1907; but it was the second that was most successful, three editions being called for within a short time.

⸺ KINSMEN’S CLAY. Pp. 389. (Close print). (_Methuen_). 6_s._ First and second editions. 1910.

Main theme: wife and lover waiting for invalid and impossible
husband to die. The treatment of this theme and that of a minor
plot makes the book unsuited for certain classes of readers.
Moreover, the tone is alien to religion. God is “perhaps the
flowering of men’s ideals under the rain of their tears.” But
the tone is not frankly anti-moral. The personages are all of
the country Anglo-Irish gentry, except one peasant family, and
this shows up badly. The types are drawn with much skill, and
there is constant clever analysis of moods and emotions. The
story brings out in a vague way the transmission through a
family of ancestral peculiarities.

⸺ BRIDGET CONSIDINE. Pp. 347. (_Bell_). 6_s._ 1914.

Bridget’s father is the son of a broken-down shopkeeper
somewhere beyond the Shannon, but clings to aristocratic
notions. She grows up in London along with “Lennie-next-door,”
but her mind outgrows his. She goes to stay W. of the Shannon
as secretary to a rich lady. There she becomes engaged to Hugh
Delmege, a young landowner. All her yearnings seem fulfilled,
yet somehow it is not what she had expected; a short separation
from Hugh still further opens her eyes, and she returns
disillusioned. This is the bare skeleton: it does not do
justice to the philosophy and the style of the book, both of
which are remarkable.

=CROSBIE, W. J.=

⸺ DAVID MAXWELL. (_Jarrold_). 6_s._ 1902.

’98 from the loyalist standpoint, and adventures in Mexico and
South Texas, &c. “David” is “Scotch-Irish.”—(_Baker_, 2).

=CROSFIELD, H. C.=

⸺ FOR THREE KINGDOMS. Pp. 241. (_Elliott Stock_). 1909.

“Recollections of Robert Warden, a servant of King James.” By
a series of accidents the teller finds himself on board one of
the ships that raises the blockade of Derry; he escapes and
goes to Dublin, where he has exciting adventures. Tyrconnell
is introduced—a very unfavourable portrait; and the hero goes
through the Boyne Campaign. Told in lively style, with plenty
of incident.

=CROTTIE, Julia M.= Born in Lismore, Co. Waterford. Educated privately and at the Presentation Convent, Lismore. Contributed to the CATHOLIC WORLD, N.Y., and to other American Catholic periodicals, also to the MONTH, the ROSARY, &c. She resides in Ramsay, Isle of Man.

⸺ NEIGHBOURS. Pp. 307. (_Unwin_). 6_s._ 1900.

Pictures of very unlovely aspects of life in a small stagnant
town. Twenty separate sketches. Wonderfully true to reality
and to the petty unpleasant sides of human nature. The gossip
of the back lane is faithfully reproduced, though without
vulgarity. The stories are told with great skill.

⸺ THE LOST LAND. Pp. 266. (_Fisher Unwin_). 6_s._ [1901]. 1907.

“A tale of a Cromwellian Irish town [in Munster]. Being the
autobiography of Miss Annita Lombard.” A picture of the
pitiful failure of the United Irishmen to raise and inspirit a
people turned to mean, timid, and crawling slaves by ages of
oppression. Thad Lombard, sacrificing fortune, home, happiness,
and at last his life for the Lost Land, is a noble figure. The
book is a biting and powerful satire upon various types of
anglicized or vulgar or pharisaical Catholicism (the author is
a Catholic). The whole is a picture of unrelieved gloom. The
style, beautiful, and often poetic, but deepens the sadness.
Thad Lombard, a hundred years before the time, pursues the
ideals of the Gaelic League. Period: _c._ 1780-1797.

=CROWE, Eyre Evans=, 1799-1868. Though born in England, this distinguished historian and journalist was of Irish origin, and was educated at Trinity. In BLACKWOOD he first published several of his Irish novels. Though imperfectly acquainted with the art of a novelist this writer is often correct and happy in his descriptions and historical summaries. Like Banim he has ventured on the stormy period of 1798, and has been more minute than his great rival in sketching the circumstances of the rebellion.—(Chambers’s _Cyclopædia of English Literature_).

⸺ TO-DAY IN IRELAND. Three Vols. (LONDON: _Knight_). 1825.

Four stories:—1. “The Carders.” 2. “Connemara.” 3. “Old and
New Light.” 4. “The O’Toole’s Warning.” The scene of 1 is
“Rathfinnan,” on Lough Ree, not far from Athlone. It is a very
dark picture of the secret societies and of the peasants in
general, but an equally merciless picture of certain types
of the Ascendancy class, notably a Protestant curate and
Papist-hunter named Crosthwaite. The hero Arthur Dillon (a true
hero of romance) is a young Catholic student of T.C.D., who
narrowly escapes being implicated in the secret societies. He
dreams of rebellion, and is nearly caught in the meshes of a
villainous-plotting Jesuit. There is a love story, with a happy
ending. 2. Is a burlesque story telling how M’Laughlin, a sort
of King of Connemara, escaped his debtors in a coffin. Some
smuggling episodes. Description of the fair of Ballinasloe, p.
196. Much about wild feudal hospitality and lawlessness. 3. Is
a satirical study of Protestant religious life at “Ardenmore,”
Co. Louth. “Sir Starcourt Gibbs” seems obviously intended as a
portrait of Sir Harcourt Lees, an Evangelical Orange leader in
Dublin in the twenties and thirties.

⸺ CONNEMARA OU UMA ELEIÇÃO NA IRLANDA: Romance Irlandez tradusido por C[amillo] A[ureliano] da S[ilva] e S[ousa] (PORTO). 1843.

⸺ YESTERDAY IN IRELAND. Three Vols., containing two long stories, viz.: 1. “Corramahon.” Pp. 600. Large loose print.

O’Mahon, an Irish Jacobite soldier of fortune, is the hero. The
plot consists mainly of the intertwined love stories of men and
women separated by barriers of class, creed, and nationality.
Good picture of politics at the time. Hardships of Penal days
illustrated (good description of Midnight Mass). Ulick O’More,
the Rapparee, is a fine figure. Interest sustained by exciting
incidents. Scene laid near town of Carlow.

2. “The Northerns of ’98.” Pp. 367.

Scene: Mid-Antrim. Adventures of various persons in ’98 (Winter
and Orde are the chief names). Feelings and sentiments of the
times portrayed, especially those of United Irishmen. Battle of
Antrim described. Author leans somewhat to National side.

=[CRUMPE, Miss].= Daughter of Dr. Crumpe (1766-1796), a famous physician in Limerick. According to the Madden MSS., she wrote several other novels.

⸺ GERALDINE OF DESMOND; or, Ireland in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Three Vols. (LONDON: _Colburn_). 1829.

Dedicated to Thomas Moore. A story of the Desmond Rebellion
1580-2, (battle of Monaster-ni-via, the massacre of Smerwick,
&c.) with, as personages in the story, the chief historical
figures of the time:—the Desmonds and Ormonds, Fr. Allen,
S.J., Sanders, Sir Henry Sidney, Sir William Drury, Dr.
Dee the Astrologer, Queen Elizabeth herself. The Author has
worked into the slight framework of her story an elaborate and
careful picture of the times, the fruit, she tells us, of years
of study and research. As a result the romance is overlaid
and well-nigh smothered with erudition, apart even from the
learned notes appended to each volume. The Author is obviously
inspired by a great love and enthusiasm for Ireland, and takes
the national side thoroughly. The book is ably written, but
resembles rather a treatise than a novel.

⸺ THE DEATH FLAG; or, The Irish Buccaneers. Three Vols. (LONDON). 1851.

=CUNINGHAME, Richard.=

⸺ THE BROKEN SWORD OF ULSTER: A brief relation of the Events of one of the most stirring and momentous eras in the Annals of Ireland. Crown 8vo. (_Hodges & Figgis_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1904.

Account of chief events. Not in form of fiction. Tone somewhat
anti-national (_cf._ authorities chiefly relied on). Moral:
Ireland’s crowning need is to accept the teaching of St. Paul
on charity. This is “the God-provided cure for all her woes.”
This Author wrote also _In Bonds but Fetterless_, 1875.

=CURTIN, Jeremiah=, 1840-1916. Born in Milwaukee, educated at Harvard. A distinguished American traveller, linguist, and ethnologist. Has translated great numbers of books from the Russian and the Polish, and has published many works on the folk-lore of the Russians, Magyars, Mongols, American Aborigines, &c. Visited Ireland in 1887 and 1891.

⸺ MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF IRELAND. (_Sampson, Low_). 9_s._ Etched frontispiece. 1890.

“Twenty tales” says Douglas Hyde (Pref. to _Beside the Fire_),
“told very well, and with much less cooking and flavouring
than his predecessors employed.” The tales were got from
Gaelic speakers through an interpreter (Mr. Curtin knowing
not a word of Gaelic). Beyond this fact he does not tell us
where, from whom, or how he collected the stories. Dr. Hyde
says again, “From my own knowledge of Folk-lore, such as it
is, I can easily recognise that Mr. Curtin has approached the
fountain-head more nearly than any other.”

⸺ HERO TALES OF IRELAND, collected by. Pp. lii. + 558. (_Macmillan_). 7_s._ 6_d._ 1894.

Learned introduction speculates on origin of myths of primitive
races. Compares Gaelic myths with those of other races,
especially North American Indians. Contends that the characters
in the tales are personifications of natural forces and the
elements, and that the tales themselves in their earliest form
give man’s primitive ideas of the creation, &c. The volume
consists of twenty-four folk-lore stories dealing chiefly with
heroes of the Gaelic cycles. Not interesting in themselves, and
with much sameness in style, matter, and incident. There is
some naturalistic coarseness here and there, and the tone in
some places is vulgar. The stories were told to the Author by
Kerry, Connemara, and Donegal peasants, whose names are given
in a note on p. 549.

⸺ TALES OF THE FAIRIES AND OF THE GHOST WORLD. Pp. ix. + 198. (_Nutt_). 1895.

Preface by Alfred Nutt. This collection supplements the two
previous collections. It is collected from oral tradition
chiefly in S.-W. Munster. Illustrates the present-day belief
of the peasantry in ghosts, fairies, &c. There are thirty
tales, many of them new. A good number of them are, of course,
grotesque and extravagant. They contain nothing objectionable,
but obviously are hardly suitable for children.

=CURTIS, Robert.=

⸺ THE IRISH POLICE OFFICER. Pp. vii. + 216. (_Ward, Lock_). 1861.

Six short stories, reprinted from DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE,
entitled “The Identification,” “The Banker of Ballyfree,” “The
Reprieve,” “The Two Mullanys,” “M’Cormack’s Grudge,” “How ‘The
Chief’ was Robbed.” They deal chiefly with remarkable trials in
Ireland. “They are all founded upon facts which occurred within
my own personal knowledge; and for the accuracy of which not
only I, but others, can vouch.”—(Pref.). Author was Inspector
of Police, and published (1869) _The History of the R.I.C._ and
_The Trial of Captain Alcohol_. Pp. 48. (_McGlashan & Gill_).
1871.

⸺ RORY OF THE HILLS. Pp. 356. Post 8vo. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1870]. Still in print.

A faithful and sympathetic picture of the peasant life and
manners at the time (early nineteenth century). The Author,
a police officer, has drawn on his professional experiences.
The tale, founded on fact, is an edifying one despite the
unrelieved villainy of Tom Murdock. The influence of religion
is felt throughout, especially in the heroic charity of the
heroine even towards the murderer of her lover. Peasant speech
reproduced to the life.

=CURRAN, H. G.= (1800-1876). Natural son of John Philpot Curran, and a barrister.

⸺ CONFESSIONS OF A WHITEFOOT. Pp. 306. (_Bentley_). (Edited by G. C. H., Esq., B.L.). 1844.

The supposed teller began as a supporter of “law and order,”
but the conviction of the abuses of landlordism is forced upon
him by experience and observation, and he ends by joining the
secret society of the Whitefeet. He makes no secret of the
crimes of this body, and many of them are described in the
course of the narrative.

=CUSACK, Mary Frances=, known as “The Nun of Kenmare.” Originally a Protestant, she became a Catholic and a Poor Clare. From her convent in Kenmare she issued quite a library of books on many subjects—Irish history, general and local, Irish biography, stories, poems, works of piety and of instruction. Subsequently she left her convent, went to America, and reverted to Protestantism. Died Leamington, 1899, aged 70. She has published her autobiography.

⸺ NED RUSHEEN; or, Who Fired the First Shot? Pp. 373. (_Burns & Oates._ BOSTON: _Donahoe_). Four rather mediocre Illus. 1871.

A murder mystery. The hero is wrongly accused, but is acquitted
in the end. The real culprit (scapegrace son of the victim,
Lord Elmsdale) confesses when dying. The mystery is well kept
up to the end. Indeed, the explanation of it is by no means
clear, even at the close. The moral purpose is kept prominently
before the reader throughout. Tone strongly religious and
Catholic, the Protestant religion being more than once
compared, to its disadvantage, with the Catholic.

⸺ TIM O’HALLORAN’S CHOICE; or, From Killarney to New York. Pp. 262. (LONDON: _Burns_). [1877]. 1878.

“This little story gives a strong picture of the heroic faith,
sufferings, and native humour of the Irish poor.”—(_Press
Notice_). When Tim is dying a priest and a “Souper” contend for
possession of his boy Thade. Tim is faithful to his Church,
but after his death the boy is kidnapped by the proselytisers.
He escapes, and is sheltered by a good Catholic named O’Grady.
Subsequently he finds favour with a rich American, who takes
him off to New York.

=D’ARBOIS DE JUBAINVILLE, Henri.= Born in Nancy, 1827. Died 1910. Educated in École des Chartes. A biographical notice of him, followed by a bibliography of his works, will be found in the _Revue Celtique_ (Vol. 32, p. 456, 1911), which he edited for many years. The list of his works contains 238 items, the greater number of which concern Celts. Perhaps rather more than half deal with Ireland. They include a _Cours de Littérature Celtique_ in 12 vols., a history of the Celts, a work on the Irish mythological cycle, and a catalogue of the epic literature of Ireland. That on the Irish mythological cycle has been well translated by R. I. Best (_Hodges & Figgis_). 1903. Pp. xv. + 240.

=D’ARCY, Hal.=

⸺ A HANDFUL OF DAYS. Pp. 319. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1914.

“How John O’Grady left his irritating wife and selfish children
to revisit the home of his fathers in I. for a short time;
how he met ... Mary O’Connor ...; how he fell in love, and
told her so—forgetting to mention the irritating wife, &c....
The picture of the old Irish priest, Mary’s uncle, is the one
redeeming feature of a mawkish, unsatisfactory tale.”—(T. LITT.
SUPPL.). This fairly describes the story. Non-Catholic, but not
prejudiced. Scene: Glendalough.

=DAMANT, Mary.= The Author is a daughter of General Chesney, the Asiatic explorer.

⸺ PEGGY. Pp. 405. (_Allen_). 1887.

_Domestic_ life in North Antrim previous to, and during, the
Rebellion of 1798. “Many of the facts of my little tale were
told me in childhood by those, whose recollection of the rising
was rendered vivid by desolate homes, loss of relations,
&c.”—(Pref.). Eschews historical or political questions.
Favourable to “poor deluded peasants.” Thinks little of United
Irishmen who are “imbued with the poison of revolutionary
principles.” Well and pleasantly written in autobiographical
form.

=DAUNT, Alice O’Neill=, 1848-1915. Was the only daughter of W. J. O’Neill Daunt. Contributed to THE LAMP, IRELAND’S OWN, and other magazines. She wrote many little stories, as serials or in book form, for the most part religious (Catholic) and didactic.

⸺ EVA; or, as the Child, so the Woman. Pp. 107. 16mo. (_Richardson_). 1_s._ 1882.

One of a little series of Catholic Tales for the young. A sad
little story, full of piety. Scene in Ireland, but the story is
not specially Irish in any way.

=DAUNT, W. J. O’Neill.= Born in Tullamore, 1807. Son of Joseph Daunt, of Ballyneen, Cork. Became a Catholic about 1827. Was in Repeal Association from the first, and remained to the end one of O’Connell’s most loyal co-operators. Died 1894. His biography has been published under the title, _A Life Spent for Ireland_, 1896.

⸺ SAINTS AND SINNERS. Two Vols. aftds. One Vol. (_Duffy_). (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 0.50. 1843, &c.

“The reader who expects in this narrative what is commonly
called the plot, or story, of a novel will, we fairly warn
him, be disappointed. Our object in becoming the historian of
Howard is merely to trace the impressions produced on his mind
by the very varied principles and notions with which he came in
contact” (beginning of chap. xiii.). The book is, besides, a
very satirical study of various types of Ulster Protestantism,
and a controversial novel, reference to Scripture and to
various Catholic authorities being frequently given in
footnotes. The story, a slight one, moves slowly, but the
situations have a good deal of humour.

⸺ HUGH TALBOT. Pp. 473. (_Duffy_). 1846.

“A Tale of the Irish confiscations of the 17th century,”
_i.e._, the reign of James I. Scene varies between England,
Ireland, and Scotland. Opens in 1609. Portrait of James I. No
other historical personage. Persecution, arrest, and adventures
of Father Hugh Talbot. Chief interest lies in the picture of
the times, which is carefully drawn. The story, however, is
well told, the conversations clever and fairly natural, the
character-drawing good. The Author is strongly opposed to
religious persecution. The Irish localities are not specified.

⸺ THE GENTLEMAN IN DEBT. Pp. 339. (_Cameron & Ferguson_). 1_s._ (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.50. [1848]. 1851, &c.

Adventures of a penniless young gentleman trying to get a
position. Depicts (after Lever), first life in Galway, among
impecunious, fox-hunting, hard-drinking, duelling squires
(Blakes, Bodkins, and O’Carrolls); then the vapid life of
Castle aristocracy in the Dublin of the time, with its
place-hunting and ignoble time-serving. Incidentally (for the
author does not moralise) we have glimpses of the working
of the Penal laws. The story is an unexciting one of rather
matter-of-fact courtship and of domestic intrigue. There are
not a few amusing scenes, nothing objectionable, and little
bias. A striking character study is that of the Rev. Julius
Blake, who is of the tribe of Pecksniff, but with quite
distinctive features.

=[DEACON, W. F.].=

⸺ THE EXILE OF ERIN; or, the Sorrows of a Bashful Irishman. Two Vols. (_Whittaker_). 1835.

Early 19th century. Adventures of a villain of the worst type
in Ireland, England, and on the Continent. Commits almost every
conceivable crime, including bigamy and embezzlement. Acts
every part from strolling player to journalist and political
partisan. Tells all this in first person. Incidentally the
book is a bitter satire on Ireland, Irish priests, Irish
politicians. Represents the “O’Connellite rabble” as capable
of any outrage and O’Connell himself (under the name of
O’Cromwell) as a political adventurer. Author admits not being
Irish.

⸺ ADVENTURES OF A BASHFUL IRISHMAN. (LONDON). 1862.

This is a new ed. of _The Exile of Erin; or, the Sorrows of a
Bashful Irishman_.

=DEASE, Alice.= Daughter of J. A. Dease, of Turbotstown, Co. Westmeath. Lives Simonstown, Coole, Co. Westmeath.—(CATH. WHO’S WHO).

⸺ THE BECKONING OF THE WAND. Pp. 164. (_Sands_). 3_s._ 6_d._. Very tastefully bound. 1908. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.00. Cheap edition, 1_s._ 6_d._ 1915.

We are used to having depicted with painful realism all our
faults, all the defects of Irish life on the material side.
This little book denies none of these, but it shows another
side of the Irish character, the deep-rooted, intense Catholic
faith, the union with the supernatural, that brightens even the
most squalid lives. The anecdotes, which are true, are related
with delicate insight by one who knows and loves the people.
There is a vivid sketch of a Lough Derg pilgrimage.

⸺ OLD-TIME STORIES OF ERIN. Pp. 215. (_Browne & Nolan_). 2_s._ Illustr. by C. A. Mills. 1908.

Sixteen old Gaelic hero legends retold in simple, lucid style
for children. Most of them are well known: “The Wise Judgment
of Cormac Mac Art;” “The Neck Pin of Queen Macha;” “The
Chivalry of Goll Mac Morna,” &c.

⸺ GOOD MEN OF ERIN. (_Browne & Nolan_). 2_s._ Six Illustr. 1910.

Stories of a quaint legendary kind connected with nine Irish
Saints. Prettily told.

⸺ THE MARRYING OF BRYAN; and Other Stories. Pp. 83. (_Sands_). 7_d._ Coloured frontisp. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.50. Second edition. 1911.

Six little tales, slight in theme, but delicately wrought. They
are the poetry of real life, mostly Irish peasant life. A moral
may be gleaned from each, but there is no irritating insistence
on it. One tells how, through his love for birds and his fear
of frightening them, a good old P.P. loses his chance of a
canonry. Another tells of the beautiful neighbourly charity of
the Irish peasant. Four are love stories. They are perfect of
their kind.

⸺ SOME IRISH STORIES. Pp. 96. (_C.T.S._). 6_d._ Stiff wrapper. 1912.

Eight little stories similar in character and qualities to
_Down West_, _q.v._

⸺ THE LADY OF MYSTERY. Pp. 159. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ 1913.

Better class Catholic family life somewhere in the
West—O’Malleys, Dillons, Burkes. Two interwoven love-stories,
a mystery of identity, and the story of a philanthropic
enterprise, the Drinagh Mills. Thoroughly Catholic atmosphere
and moral purpose.

⸺ DOWN WEST, and Other Sketches of Irish Life. Pp. 119. (ROEHAMPTON: _The Catholic Library_). 1_s._ Preface by Sir H. Bellingham. 1914.

Glimpses of real life in Connemara and Aran (described p. 48
_sq._), dealing less with outward incidents than with the
beauty of the people’s faith, the hardness of their lot, the
joys and sorrows of their lives. Told with a very delicate
suggestiveness, full of touches of humour and of feeling,
without preaching or moralising, by one in thorough sympathy
with the people, and alive, too, to all the influences of
nature. The dialect is reproduced with great fidelity.

=DEASE, Charlotte.=

⸺ CHILDREN OF THE GAEL. Pp. 196. (_Washbourne_). 2_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.75. 1911.

Eight little studies—vignettes—of Irish peasant types,
evidently drawn direct from real life. They are in narrative
form, but in most the incident is slight. They give curiously
vivid glimpses of the life of the poor, of which the Author
has intimate knowledge. The tone is Catholic and “Gaelic.” The
Author avoids phonetic renderings of peasant dialect.

=DEBENHAM, Mary H.=

⸺ CONAN THE WONDER WORKER. Pp. 302. (_National Society_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Four or five illustr. (N.Y.: _Whittaker_). 1902.

Norway, _c._ 912-3. Conan is a Christian Scot (_i.e._,
Irishman) who is captured by a Viking, and brought to Norway.
In time he converts the Viking and his family. A good story for
children and even for grown-ups.

⸺ THE SHEPHERD PRIOR; and other Stories for Sunday Evenings. Pp. 252. (_National Society_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Four illustr. by Violet M. Smith. (N.Y.: _Whittaker_). 1907.

Written for children in a religious vein, with a moral
attached. Only one story deals with Ireland, “The Great
Handwriting.” In it the conversion of the King’s daughters by
St. Patrick is prettily told. Protestant, but not unsuited to
Catholic children.

=DEENEY, Daniel.=

⸺ PEASANT LORE FROM GAELIC IRELAND. Second edition. Pp. 80. (_Nutt_). 1_s._ Stiff wrapper. 1901.

Relates to the Donegal Highlands and Connemara, in the latter
of which (at Spiddal, I believe) the writer taught Irish.
Consists of illustrations of the peasants’ belief in the
preternatural world of spirits and fairies and influences,
with examples of common superstitious practices. The writer,
if he does not share these beliefs, at least is very far from
despising them. “The majority of them [the items included]
were related to me in the broken English of a Western
peasant”—(Introd.). The book is chiefly interesting to
folk-lorists.

The same Author’s _Tales and Superstitions of the Connaught
Peasants_. (_Nutt_), 1_s._, 1901, is a collection similar to
the preceding.

=DENANCE, L. V.=

⸺ O’SULLIVAN, DERNIÈRE INSURRECTION DE L’IRLANDE. Pp. 130. (LIMOGES: _Ardant et Thibant_). 1874?

Historical introd. very favourable to Ireland. Scene of story:
Cork. Relates incidents of ’98, including French expedition.
Told by O’S. himself, part of whose adventures take place in
Africa. The last page brings him back to Ireland.

=DENNY, Madge E.=

⸺ IRISH TOWN AND COUNTRY TALES. Pp. 232. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1_s._ An ugly cover.

Pleasant little tales, some of them humorous, written in a
light, breezy style. Many of them deal with love and courtship,
and are sentimental enough, but not in the least objectionable.

=DENVIR, John.= Born 1834. Lived nearly all his life in England (Liverpool, London, and Birmingham). Throughout his long career has never ceased to work for Ireland. Conducted for some years the CATHOLIC TIMES. Publ. _The Irish in England_ and his own autobiography, _The Life Story of an Old Rebel_ (1910), new ed., 1914. He is still living in London. He has publ. there a considerable number of popular books about Ireland, including “Denver’s Irish Library,” booklets at a penny each.

⸺ THE BRANDONS: a Story of Irish life in England. Pp. 153. (_Denver’s Irish Library_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Paper 1_s._ 1903.

An Italian carbonaro tragedy that by a strange combination of
circumstances comes into a peaceful back water of Liverpool,
Homer’s Gardens, and mingles with the lives of its Irish
inhabitants. A romantic interest is added by the love of
Hugh and Jack Brandon for Rose Aylmer. Jack’s self-sacrifice
is rewarded in the end. There are several pleasant Irish
characters besides Hugh and Jack—Father MacMahon, genial,
generous, and fatherly; Mick Muldowney and his wife, rough
customers enough, but always cheery, and willing to share their
last crust with anyone in need.

⸺ OLAF THE DANE. Pp. 103. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ Paper.

Scene: Donegal. Extraordinary story, full of sensational
incidents. It turns chiefly on a prophecy made in the ninth
century about men then living, which is fulfilled in their
descendants of the nineteenth century. One of these latter
is endowed with supernatural powers. There are some pretty
faithful pictures of the peasantry.

=[DERENZY, M. G.].=

⸺ THE OLD IRISH KNIGHT: a Milesian Tale of the Fifth Century. Pp. 186. (LONDON: _Poole & Edwards_). 1828.

By the Author of _A Whisper to a Newly-married Pair_,
_Parnassian Geography_, &c. In spite of an apparent effort to
be archæologically correct the book is full of rather absurd
anachronisms. There are already in Ireland abbeys with long
lines of arches, there is talk of the finest organ in Europe
being purchased for one of them, and so on. The story does not
hang together. It is merely a string of disjointed incidents,
most of them wholly improbable.

=D’ESPARBÈS, Georges.=

⸺ LE BRISEUR DE FERS. Pp. 316. (PARIS: _Louis-Michaud_). 3_fr._10. [1908]. New edition, 1911.