Chapter IX: Book I: has its scene on Innishrath, an island in Lough Erne (5)

In the height of the Whiteboy disturbances, which are luridly
described, a young Englishman comes to Ireland with the
intention of uplifting the peasantry and bettering their lot.
After some terrible experiences he at length succeeds to a
wonderful extent in his benevolent purposes. The book is of a
didactic type.—(_Krans_).

⸺ THE FIGHT OF FAITH: a Story of Ireland. Two Vols. (_Chapman & Hall_). [1862]. 1869.

Opens at Havre in 1680 with a Huguenot family about to fly
from persecution. Their ship is wrecked off the Isle of Wight,
where the little girl Pauline is rescued and adopted by an old
sea-captain. The scene then changes to Carrickfergus, then held
by Schomberg. Geo. Walker is introduced, and the story ends
with the battle of the Boyne (the fight of faith). View-point
strongly Protestant.

⸺ NELLY NOWLAN, and Other Stories. Popular Tales of Irish Life and Character. Seventh edition, with numerous Illustr. Demy 8vo. (LONDON). 1865.

Contains twenty-five delightful tales of Irish life, with
numerous illustrations by Maclise, Franklin, Brooke, Herbert,
Harvey, Nichol, and Weigall; “Sweet Lilly O’Brian,” “Mary
Ryan’s Daughter,” “The Bannow Postman,” “Father Mike,” and
twenty-one other tales. As a graphic delineator of Irish life
and character, no other writer has dealt with the subject so
delightfully and truly as Mrs. Hall. She wrote many volumes on
the subject, of which this is the best.

⸺ TALES OF IRISH LIFE AND CHARACTER. (_T. N. Foulis_). 5_s._ With Sixteen Illustr. in colour from the famous Irish paintings of Erskine Nichol, R.S.A. 1909.

=HALPINE, Charles Graham; “Private Myles O’Reilly.”= Born in Oldcastle, Co. Meath, 1829. Son of Rev. N. J. Halpin (_sic_). Ed. T.C.D. Took up journalism and went first to London, where he came to know some of the young Irelanders, and thence to America. Became a well-known journalist. Fought through the Civil War. His songs became very well-known throughout the Union. D. 1868. Publ. also a series of prose sketches, _Baked Meats of the Funeral_, and a vol. of reminiscences.

⸺ MOUNTCASHEL’S BRIGADE; or, The Rescue of Cremona. Pp. 151 (close print). (DUBLIN: _T. D. Sullivan_). Fifth ed., 1882.

Episodes in the story of the Irish Brigade in the service of
France. The narrative is enlivened with love affairs, duels,
and exciting adventures very well told.

⸺ THE PATRIOT BROTHERS; or, The Willows of the Golden Vale. (DUBLIN). Sixth ed. 1884. One ed., pp. 173 (small print), _n.d._, was publ. by A. M. Sullivan.

Sub-title: A page from Ireland’s Martyrology. A finely written
romance dealing with the fate of the brothers Sheares,
executed in 1798. Their story is followed with practically
historical exactitude, a thread of romance being woven in. A
good account of the politics of the time, especially of the
elaborate spy-system then flourishing, is given, but not so
as to interfere with the interest of the tale. There are fine
descriptions of the scenery of Wicklow, in which the action
chiefly takes place, and especially of the Golden Vale between
Bray and Delgany.

=HAMILTON, Catherine J.= Born in Somerset of Irish parents, her father being from Strabane and her mother from Queen’s Co. Ed. chiefly by her father, a vicar of the Ch. of England. At his death, in 1859, removed to Ireland and lived there more than thirty years. Publ. at twenty-five her first story, _Hedged with Thorns_. Wrote verse for the ARGOSY and Irish stories for the GRAPHIC; contributed regularly to WEEKLY IRISH TIMES and IRELAND’S OWN, including several serials. At present resides in London. Author of _Notable Irishwomen_ (1904), _Women Writers, their Works and Ways_ (1892), &c.

⸺ MARRIAGE BONDS; or, Christian Hazell’s Married Life. Pp. 439. (_Ward, Lock_). _n.d._ (1878).

First appeared in THE ENGLISHWOMAN’S DOMESTIC MAGAZINE. An
unhappy marriage of a sweet, loving, sensitive nature to a man
of a hard, selfish character, who treats his wife with studied
neglect and discourtesy. Christian comes from her native
English manor house to live with Alick Hazell in an ugly,
ill-managed Irish country house, among disagreeable neighbours
somewhere on the S.E. coast of Ireland. He hates the people,
and is a bad landlord. She has no friend until the arrival
of his brother Eustace, whose mother was Irish and who loves
Ireland. Almost unawares they fall in love, but E. is a man of
honour, and C. is faithful to her husband to the very end. The
author is on Ireland’s side, though somewhat apologetically and
vaguely. Good picture of bitterly anti-Irish narrow-minded type
of minor country gentry.

⸺ THE FLYNNS OF FLYNNVILLE. Pp. 250. (_Ward, Lock_). 1879.

A story of the sensational kind, founded on the murder of a
bank-manager by a constabulary officer called Montgomery, and
the subsequent trial, which many years ago excited considerable
interest. Scene: S. of Ireland.

⸺ TRUE TO THE CORE: a Romance of ’98. Two Vols. (_F. V. White_). 1884.

The story of the love of a Kerry peasant girl for the ill-fated
John Sheares. The interest is that of plot, history being quite
of minor importance, and centres in the scheming of his various
enemies to compass the destruction of John Sheares in spite
of all the efforts of his guardian angel, Norah Nagle. There
is not one really sympathetic character. Sheares is a mere
dreamer; Norah is generous and faithful, but lies and “barges”
on occasion; almost all the rest, except Norah’s peasant lover,
are fools or villains of the blackest sort. Disagreeable
picture of the Dublin of the day. The story is told with
considerable verve and carries one along. The Author is not at
all hostile, but seems unstirred to any feeling of enthusiasm
for the cause of Ireland.

⸺ DR. BELTON’S DAUGHTERS. Pp. 169. (_Ward, Lock_). 1890.

Alice the second marries a curate in the W. of Ireland and
struggles to keep up on small means a good appearance. Her
husband is an incurable optimist.

⸺ THE LUCK OF THE KAVANAGHS. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ 1910.

Strange adventures of an emigrant Irish boy.

=HAMILTON, Edwin, M.A., B.L., M.R.I.A.= Born 1849. Resides at Donaghadee, Co. Down. Author of _Dublin Doggerels_ (1880), _The Moderate Man_ (1888, _Downey_). The two following books are not in the British Museum Library.

⸺ BALLYMUCKBEG. 1885.

Political satire.

⸺ WAGGISH TALES. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1897.

=HAMILTON, John, of St. Ernan’s. “An Irishman” [N.M.].=

⸺ THE THREE FENIAN BROTHERS. (_Macmillan_). 18mo. 1866. 1_s._

Paul, Mark, and Ned Ryan, sons of a well-to-do farmer, were
enticed into joining the Brotherhood, the two former by
Patrick Mahoney, the village schoolmaster. Ned had served
in the Federal Army (U.S.A.), and was sent back to Ireland
as a captain. “The characters and careers of the brothers
are vividly depicted in an interesting tale, the dialogue is
pointed, often witty.... In the unfolding of the story much
light is incidentally thrown on the state of feeling in Ireland
in 1865-6.” The Author has told his life-story in _Sixty Years’
Experience as an Irish Landlord_, and given his views in
_Thoughts on Ireland by an Irish Landlord_ (1886).

=“HAMILTON, M.”; Mrs. Churchill-Luck=, _née_ =Spottiswoode-Ashe=. Is a native of Co. Derry. Publ. also _The Freedom of Harry Meredith_, _M’Leod of the Camerons_, _A Self-denying Ordinance_, _Mrs. Brett_, _The Woman who Looked Back_, &c.

⸺ ON AN ULSTER FARM. Pp. 143. (_Everett_).

A realistic sketch of the life of a workhouse child sent out to
service to a particularly unlovable set of hard Scotch Ulster
folk. Interesting as a study of character and as an exposure
of the misery attendant on the working of certain parts of
the workhouse system. This subject is also treated in Rosa
Mulholland’s _Nanno_, _q.v._

⸺ ACROSS AN IRISH BOG. (_Heinemann_). 1896.

An ugly, but very powerful, tale of seduction in Irish peasant
life. The study of the ignominious aspirations of the seducer,
a Protestant clergyman, after social elevation forms the pith
of the book. The difficulty of his position, technically on a
level with the gentry, though he is wholly unequal to them in
breeding, is brought out.

⸺ BEYOND THE BOUNDARY. Pp. 306. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 1902.

Scene: first in London, afterwards among Ulster peasantry
(dialect cleverly reproduced). Theme: a curiously ill-assorted
marriage. Brian Lindsay, son of Presbyterian Ulster peasants,
had during a panic deserted his men in action. Afterwards he
had been decorated mistakenly, instead of the man who had died
to save him. In London he meets this man’s sister, a solitary
working girl, but a lady. They are married, and he takes her
home. Disillusionment on the wife’s part follows, and Brian is
threatened with the discovery of his secret. What came of it
all is told in a beautiful and convincing story. Not gloomy
nor morbid. Running through the main plot is the story of
poor little French Pipette, deserted by the foolish, selfish,
mother, whom she adores. Old Lindsay, dour and godly, is very
well done. An element of humour is found in the characters of
Miss Arnold of the venomous tongue; fat little Mr. Leslie, who
loves his dinners; and Maggie, the Lindsay’s maid-of-all-work.

=HANNAY, Rev. James Owen=, _see_ =“GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM.”=

=HANNIGAN, D. F.= Was born at Dungarvan, 1855. Ed. at St. John’s, Waterford, and Queen’s College, Cork. Called to Irish bar, and formerly a journalist in Dublin; is now in America. Contributed a long serial, _The Moores of Moore’s Court_, to the MONITOR, 1879, and other stories to the Dublin press.

⸺ LUTTRELL’S DOOM. Pp. 76. (ABERDEEN: _Moran_). 1_s._ 1896.

Purports to be extracts from an Irish gentlewoman’s diary kept
between 1690 and 1726.

=HANNON, John.= Born at Isleworth, 1870. Son of John Hannon, of Kildorrery, Co. Cork. Ed. at St. Edmunds, England. For long engaged in educational work, he afterwards took up journalism. He resides in Isleworth.—(CATH. WHO’S WHO).

⸺ THE KINGS AND THE CATS: Munster Fairy Tales. Pp. 78. Size 6¾ × 9¾ (_Burns & Oates_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Thirteen illustr. by Louis Wain. 1908.

Handsomely produced. Preface by Father M. Russell, S.J.
Introductory verse by Katharine Tynan. Stories gleaned from old
Irish peasants in England. Full of quaint, amusing turns of
expression.

=HANRAHAN, P. R.=

⸺ EVA; or, the Buried City of Bannow.

Mentioned in the notice of this Author in O’Donoghue’s _Poets
of Ireland_.

=[HARDY, Miss].=

⸺ MICHAEL CASSIDY; or, The Cottage Gardener: a tale for small beginners. (_Seeley_). [1840]. 1845.

By the Author of “The Confessor: a Jesuit tale of the times
founded on fact” [viz., Miss Hardy]. Cushing. The 1845 ed. has
a Pref. by C. B. Tayler. It is an attempt to urge people to
small allotments, green crops, rotation, economy, and hard work.

=HARDY, Philip Dixon.= _c._ 1794-1875. Was a bookseller and editor of various Dublin periodicals. Publ. several volumes of verse, some books on Irish topography, and some religious works of a strongly anti-Catholic character.

⸺ LEGENDS, TALES, AND STORIES OF IRELAND. Pp. 328. (DUBLIN: _John Cumming_). 1837.

Dedicated to Sir W. Betham. Hardy was the first editor of
the DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL. His tales of Irish life deal with
fairies, faction-fights, smugglers, and burlesque or tragic
adventures in a manner by no means without vivacity and
cleverness, though the trail of the “stage-Irishman” is over
most of his work. This edition was illustrated in a somewhat
coarse and stage-Irish fashion. Other works of this Author
were:—_Essays and Sketches of Irish Life and Character_;
_Ireland in 1846-7, considered in reference to the rapid growth
of Popery_, and several works on Irish topography.

=HARKIN, Hugh= (1791-1854). For good account of this writer supplied by his son, see O’Donoghue’s _Poets of Ireland_.

⸺ THE QUARTERCLIFT: or, the Adventures of Hudy McGuiggen. (BELFAST), _c._ 1841. In shilling monthly parts. Illustrated.

An amusing story founded on the old Co. Derry folk tale of a
“gommeral” named Hudy McGuiggin, who didn’t see why he couldn’t
fly. So he made himself wings out of the feathers of a goose.
Arrayed in these, he jumped off a high mountain (still shown
by the peasantry), and of course came to grief. Strange to
say, he recovered and lived to be an old man. This and other
incidents are related with great verve and truth, and many well
pourtrayed characters are introduced. See GREER, Tom.

=[HARRIS, Miss S. M.]; “Athene.”= Fourth daughter of a Co. Down farmer, the late William Harris, of Ballynafern, Banbridge. The family has been long resident in Belfast.

⸺ IN THE VALLEYS OF SOUTH DOWN. Pp. viii. + 155. (BELFAST: _M’Caw, Stevenson, & Orr_). 1898.

Rupert Stanwell is kept apart from Mabel Mervyn, for his
parents want him to marry a rich American heiress; but the
two are joined in the end, and all is well. Conventional and
unobjectionable, without any special local colour.

⸺ GRACE WARDWOOD. Pp. 269. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Tasteful binding. 1900.

A domestic tale of middle class folk in Co. Down. Several
love stories intertwined. Gracefully written but “feminine,”
and not very mature in style. Contains little that is
characteristically Irish, except some legends introduced
incidentally.

⸺ DUST OF THE WORLD. Pp. vi. + 293. (_Allen_). 6_s._ 1913.

Sub-t.: “An historical romance of Belfast in the 17th century.”
Introduces the Earl of Donegall, the lord of the soil; Lady
Donegall who, to the annoyance of Bp. Jeremy Taylor, has
hankerings after Presbyterianism; George Macartney, the
Sovereign or Mayor; and other Belfast townsfolk of the day.
Swift is an anachronism in this story, and there are no grounds
in history for the portrait given of Patrick Adair, an early
Presbyterian minister. Lord Donegall is made to talk with a
brogue, while a butcher’s wife talks in the best of English.

=HARTLEY, Mrs.=, _née_ =May Laffan=. Born in Dublin. Widow of the late W. N. Hartley, F.R.S. Her brother William Laffan was at the head of Laffan’s Agency. For some considerable time past she has done no literary work.

⸺ HOGAN, M.P. Pp. 491. (_Macmillan_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1876]. New ed. 1882.

Picture of Dublin society, showing how Catholics are
handicapped by their want of education and good breeding,
due, in the Author’s view, to wholly wrong system of Catholic
education. Discursive and garrulous. Full of social manœuvres,
petty intrigues, gossip, and scandal. Convent education from
within.

⸺ THE HON. MISS FERRARD. [1877]. (_Macmillan_). 1882. 3_s._ 6_d._

The Hon. Miss F. is the only daughter of the ancient and
broken-down house of the Darraghmores. The father squanders
his income faster than he gets it, and has to keep moving from
place to place, living chiefly on credit. Miss F. is brought up
in this inconsequent, semi-gipsy family, with wild harum-scarum
brothers. The Author does not blink the consequent shortcomings
of the heroine. Amusing things happen when she goes to live
with her maiden aunts at Bath—an unsuccessful experiment.
Her choice between her Irish farmer lover and the admirable
English Mr. Satterthwaite—we shall not reveal. Good minor
characters—Cawth, the old servant of the family; Mr. Perry,
the family lawyer. “The Author represents the interiors of all
Irish households of the middle classes as repulsive in the
extreme.... There is in them an innate vulgarity of thought,
with an atmosphere of transparent pretension.”—(SATURDAY REV.,
xliv., 403).

⸺ FLITTERS, TATTERS, AND THE COUNSELLOR. (_Macmillan_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1879]. New ed., 1883.

Four stories: (1) Three little Dublin street arabs, nicknamed
as in title. Lively and realistic portraits. Poignant and
sympathetic picture of slum misery and degradation. (2) Deals
with the same subject. (3) Glasgow slum life. (4) Lurid and
revolting story of conspiracy and murder in a country district.
There are those who consider No. 1 quite the most perfect thing
that has been written about Dublin life.

⸺ THE GAME HEN. (DUBLIN). 1880.

⸺ CHRISTY CAREW. Pp. 429. (_Macmillan_). 2_s._ [1880]. New ed., 1883; still in print.

Written in spirit of revolt against Catholic discouragement
of mixed marriages, showing the social disabilities which it
draws upon Catholics. Several portraits of priests, _e.g._, a
collector of old books and a model priest. Studies of various
aspects of Catholic life.

⸺ ISMAY’S CHILDREN. (_Macmillan_). 2_s._ [1887].

Tale of Fenian times, little concerned with political aims, but
rather with personal fortunes of the lads who are drawn into
the midnight drillings. Little political bias, but sympathies
with “the quality.” Close studies of Irish middle-class
domestic life. Scene: Co. Cork. The ATHENÆUM pronounced this
novel to be “the most valuable and dispassionate contribution
towards the solution of that problem [the Irish character]
which has been put forth in this generation in the domain of
fiction.”

=HATTON, Joseph.=

⸺ JOHN NEEDHAM’S DOUBLE. Pp. 208. 16mo. (_Maxwell_). 1_s._ Paper. _n.d._ (1885)

“A story founded on fact,” viz., John Sadleir’s career, his
fraud on the Tipperary Bank, &c. An exciting and melodramatic
story. Needham poisons his “double,” Joseph Norbury, and
deposits his body on Hampstead Heath, then escapes to America,
is tracked and arrested, but dramatically takes poison when
under arrest. Told with considerable verve. Thirty of this
Author’s books are enumerated by Allibone.

=HARVEY, W.=

⸺ IRISH LIFE AND HUMOUR. Pp. 221. (STIRLING: _Eneas Mackey_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1906.

A collection of short, witty anecdotes and jokes, four or five
to a page. Source: not indicated, but they are obviously culled
from periodicals, or from previous collections of the kind. A
few seem to be taken from serious biographies. They are given
without comment, exactly as he found them, says the Author
(Pref.). They exhibit no religious nor racial bias (witness the
last chapter on Priest and People), but throughout you have the
“Paddy” of the comic paper, and in many places the traditional
Stage-Irishman whirls his shillelagh and “hurroos for ould
Oireland” in a wholly impossible brogue. The stories are
classified under various heads, but for convenience only. They
do not illustrate national traits nor phases of national life.
The above is an abridgment of a larger work [1st ed., 1904,
without illustr.] with the same title, of which a new edition,
pp. 488, twelve illustrations in colour, 5_s._ net, has been
issued (August, 1909) by Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. More recently
a cheap ed. has been issued at 1_s._, pp. 206, paper covers,
with some poor illustr.

=“HASLETTE, John.”=

⸺ DESMOND ROURKE: Irishman. (_Sampson, Low_). 6_s._ 1911.

Scene: South America. The hero is intended to be typically
Irish. The story is described as racy and dashing, and has
received high praise from the Press. We understand that the
Author’s real name is Vahey, and that he lives at the Knock,
near Belfast (1911); see I. B. L., Vol. IV., p. 73. He had
before this novel already published two others. He is of
Huguenot descent, but was b. and ed. in Ireland.

=HAYENS, Herbert.=

⸺ AN AMAZING CONSPIRACY. Pp. 247. (S.P.C.K.). 2_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by Adolf Thiede. _n.d._ (1914).

An exciting boys’ adventure story, opening in an island of
the W. coast of Ireland, where mysterious events take place,
but passing chiefly in Guatemala, where the hero goes through
thrilling adventures in various revolutions.

=HEALY, Cahir.=

⸺ A SOWER OF THE WIND. Pp. 168. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ Paper. _c._ 1910.

Scene: the Donegal coast. A sensational and romantic story.
Local Land League doings described. The author writes of the
people with knowledge and sympathy.

⸺ THE ESCAPADES OF CONDY CORRIGAN. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.50 net.

=[HEMPHILL, Barbara].=

⸺ THE PRIEST’S NIECE. Three Vols. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 1855.

In the first two volumes there is nothing about Ireland. In the
third the scene shifts to Cashel, and there are some attempts
to picture Irish life. The Author is not anti-Catholic nor
anti-Irish: she is amusingly ignorant of Catholic matters
and is not interested in Ireland. P. 37—a scene of Irish
lawlessness (capture of a private still). P. 40—unpleasant
description of a wake. The plot hinges mainly on the strife
in the hero’s mind between his love for Ellen, the penniless
peasant girl, to whom he owes several rescues from the
Shanavests, and the heiress to marry whom would be to save his
father from ruin.

=HENDERSON, George.=

⸺ THE FEAST OF BRICRIU: an Early Gaelic Saga. (_Irish Texts Society_). 6_s._ 1899.

Belongs to Cuchullin cycle. C. contends in a series of
competitive feats with Conall and Loigare for the championship
of Ulster ... the origin of the contest being the desire of B.
to stir up strife among his guests. Introd. and notes.

⸺ SURVIVALS IN BELIEF AMONG THE CELTS. Pp. 340. Demy 8vo. (EDINBURGH: _MacLehose_). 10_s._ net. 1911.

The Author is Lecturer in Celtic language and literature in
the University of Glasgow. The book consists of the substance
of a series of lectures on Folk Psychology. It is a study in
Celtic “psychical anthropology”—practically a study of magic,
superstitions, and other survivals of primitive paganism. Deals
chiefly with the Scottish Highlands, but there are frequent
allusions to Irish folklore and legend. Highly technical in
conception and language.

=[HENDERSON, Rev. Henry]; “Ulster Scot.”= Was for many years a Presbyterian minister in Holywood, Co. Down, and wrote for BELFAST WEEKLY NEWS _Woodleigh Hall, a Tale of the Fenians_, and _The Moutrays of Clonkeen_.

⸺ THE TRUE HEIR OF BALLYMORE. Pp. 80. Demy 8vo. (BELFAST). 1_s._ Wrappers. 1859.

Sub-t.:—“Passages from the history of a Belfast Ribbon Lodge.”
Frontisp.—the insignia of Ribbonism. An anti-Ribbon pamphlet
in the form of a story. Relates the machinations of a certain
Ribbon lodge for the destruction of Protestantism, and, in
particular, the scheme whereby a Catholic widow is made to
inveigle Col. Obrey into marriage. The latter drives out his
sister and nephew, and Ballymore is invaded by a low-class
drinking set of Catholics, who finally bring the poor Colonel
to his grave. Subsequently it transpires that Mrs. Connor’s
husband was alive all the time, and the Colonel’s nephew
comes into his own. The book is full of the awful crimes
of Ribbonism, and closes thus:—“No statesmanship, no good
government will ever deliver our land from Ribbon disloyalty,
outrages, and savage assassinations until Romanism is
extirpated from the country. Ribbonism is the offspring of
Romanism.”

⸺ THE DARK MONK OF FEOLA: Adventures of a Ribbon Pedlar. (_Office of_ BELFAST NEWS LETTER). c. 1859.

“The first part contains a very affecting episode illustrative
of the evils which are certain to follow the union of
Protestant women with men who belong to the Roman Catholic
faith. To all Protestants the story cannot fail to be
interesting; and Orangemen, especially, will peruse it with
peculiar pleasure.”—(DOWNSHIRE PROTESTANT).

⸺ THE SANDY ROW CONVERT.

=HENRY-RUFFIN, Mrs. M. E.=

⸺ THE NORTH STAR. Pp. 356. (BOSTON: _Little, Brown_). $1.50 net. Six good Ill. by Wilbur D. Hamilton. [1904]. 1908.

Scene: Norway and Ireland. The story of how Olaf Trygvesson,
the exiled king of Norway, returned as a Christian champion,
and overthrew his pagan rival. The wild brutal paganism of the
time is depicted with realism. There is an interesting account
of a great gathering in Dublin, and a sketch of Olaf’s life in
exile amid his Irish hosts. There is also a love interest. Mrs.
Henry-Ruffin is the only daughter of the late Thomas Henry, of
Mobile, Alabama.

=HENTY, G. A.= Born 1832, in Cambridgeshire. He spent some time in Belfast in his capacity of Purveyor to the Forces. D. 1902. One of the greatest, perhaps quite the greatest, of writers for boys. His eighty-six or more published stories deal with almost all countries and every period of history. All his stories are sane and healthy and told in the manner that boys love. Their historical side is carefully worked out.

⸺ FRIENDS THOUGH DIVIDED. (_Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Excellent coloured Illustr. Attractive binding and general get-up. (N.Y.: _Burt_). 1.00. [1883]. New eds.

A fine boys’ adventure-story of the Civil War. Scene: mainly
Great Britain, but at end shifts to Ireland for the Siege of
Drogheda, which is well described. Good account of Cromwell,
the two Charles, Argyll. Sympathies of writer clearly royalist.
Ireland represented to be in state of semi-barbarism. Juvenile.

⸺ ORANGE AND GREEN. (_Blackie_). 5_s._ Handsome binding; eight Illustr. by Gordon Browne. (N.Y.: _Burt_). 1.00. [1887]. 1907.

Adventures of two boys (one a Protestant, the other a Catholic)
in the Williamite Wars. Battles of Boyne, Aughrim, sieges of
Athlone, Cork, and Limerick, described. Impartial. Williamite
excesses condemned. Sarsfield’s action after Limerick severely
dealt with.

⸺ IN THE IRISH BRIGADE. Pp. 384. (_Blackie_). 6_s._ Twelve excellent illustr. by Chas. M. Sheldon. (N.Y.: _Scribner_). 1.50. 1901.

Adventures of Desmond Kennedy, officer of the Irish Brigade,
in the service of France, during the War of the Spanish
Succession—chiefly in Flanders and Spain. The facts are based
on O’Callaghan’s _History of the Irish Brigade_ and Boyer’s
_Annals of the Reign of Queen Anne_. No Irish Nationalist could
quarrel with the views expressed in the Author’s Preface.

=HEYGATE, W. E.=

⸺ WILD SCENES AMONG THE CELTS. Pp. 114. (_Parker_). 6_d._ 1859.

One of a series “Tales for Young Men and Women” (Church of
England). This volume contains the two following tales:—

THE PENITENT.—How Shossag, a prince of S. Leinster, was
accessory to his brother’s murder. How punishment overtook him,
and how he ended his life as a penitent at the feet of St.
Piran of Cornwall. Period _c._ 410 A.D.

THE FUGITIVE.—A story of crime, and its punishment in the
person of a Pictish chief. St. Columba has a prominent place
in the story. Of him a sympathetic and appreciative picture
is drawn. Scene: Scottish mainland, Iona, and N. Connaught,
_c._ 590-597. This Author has written a dozen other historical
stories. See NIELD. The two above noted are quite suitable for
Catholic children.

=HICKEY, Rev. P.=

⸺ INNISFAIL. Pp. 284. (_Gill_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1906]. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.75. Third ed. 1907.

Life-story of a young priest from early youth to departure for
Australia, largely told in letters from college, with verse
interspersed. Sketches of life in Tipperary (fox-hunt, school
scenes, &c.).

=HINKSON, H. A.= Born in Dublin, 1865. Married Katharine Tynan, 1893 (_q.v._). Ed. Dublin High School, T.C.D., and in Germany. Called to the English Bar, 1902. Until the last few years he has resided in England. He now lives in Claremorris, Co. Mayo, for which county he is R.M.

⸺ GOLDEN LADS AND GIRLS. Pp. 312. (_Downey_). 1895.

A love story of the upper middle classes. Pictures of western
(Galway) county family life, and of student life in Trinity,
both strongly reminiscent of Lever. Good portraits of Irish
types, the country doctor, the unpopular agent, the reforming
landlord (English and a convert to Catholicism); the Protestant
country clergyman, &c. This latter portrait is rather
satirical. The tone on the whole is nationalist and Catholic.

⸺ FATHER ALPHONSUS. Pp. 282. (_Unwin_). 1898.

The life-story of two young seminarians. One of these, finding
he has no vocation, leaves before ordination, and has no reason
to repent the step. The other, ignoring uneasy feelings that
trouble may come of it later, becomes a priest. Afterwards he
meets with a certain lady, a recent convert from Protestantism.
A mutual attachment springs up, and eventually they are
married. The circumstances, as arranged by the novelist, are
so strange as almost to seem to palliate this sin, were it not
for his omission of one factor, viz., that particular form of
divine help towards the doing of duty which Catholics call
the _gratia status_. The erring priest ends his life in a
Carthusian monastery. The tone throughout is almost faultless
from a Catholic standpoint. Indeed, though there are several
passionate scenes, rendering the book unfitted for certain
readers, the moral tone is high. Some of the characteristics of
Irish social life are admirably portrayed.

⸺ UP FOR THE GREEN. Pp. 327. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 6_s._ 1898.

“For several of the incidents related in this story, the Author
is indebted to the narrative of Samuel Riley, a yeoman [Quaker]
of Cork, who was captured by the rebels, while on his way to
Dublin, in September, 1798.” This worthy man discovers the
rebels to be very different from what he had taken them to
be. A healthy, breezy tale with more adventure than history.
Standpoint: thoroughly national. There is quiet humour in the
quaintly told narrative of the Quaker. Castlereagh, Major Sirr,
Grattan, Lord Enniskillen figure in the story.

⸺ WHEN LOVE IS KIND. Pp. 320. (_Long_). 1898.

A wholesome Irish love-story of the present day. The hero,
Rupert Standish, is a soldier and a soldier’s son. The story
brings out the comradeship which may exist between father and
son. The page-boy, Peter, with his gruesome tales, is a curious
study. There are many passages descriptive of scenes and
incidents in Ireland.

⸺ THE KING’S DEPUTY. Pp. 236. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 6_s._ (CHICAGO: _M’Clurg_). 1.25. 1899.

Period: the days of Grattan’s Parliament, of which a vivid
picture is drawn, and of the viceroyalty of the Duke of
Rutland. The interest is divided between a love story and the
story of a plot of the Protestant aristocracy to establish an
independent Irish Republic on the Venetian model. Grattan,
Curran, Napper Tandy, Sir John Parnell, Sir Boyle Roche, Father
Arthur O’Leary, &c., are introduced. Descriptions (historically
accurate) of the Hell-Fire Club and the Funny Club.

⸺ SIR PHELIM’S TREASURE. Pp. 255. (S.P.C.K.) 1_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. W. S. Stacey. _n.d._ (1901).

A boy’s adventure-story of search for treasure. No “moral” or
lesson. Good description of Crusoe-life on a little island off
the Irish coast. Pleasant style; no tediousness nor dullness.

⸺ THE POINT OF HONOUR. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 6_s._ (CHICAGO: _M’Clurg_). 1.50. 1901.

“Stories about the quarrelsome, bottle-loving, duelling gentry
of the eighteenth century.”—(_Baker_).

⸺ SILK AND STEEL. Pp. 336. (_Chatto & Windus_). 6_s._ Picture cover. 1902.

Adventures of an Irish soldier of fortune at the Court of
Charles I., in the Netherlands, and in Ireland. Brisk and
picturesque in style. Sketch of Owen Roe and description of
Benburb. The hero is Daniel O’Neill, a nephew of Owen Roe.
Full of historical incidents and personages, _e.g._, the Earl
of Essex, Father Boethius Egan, Lord Antrim. Point of view:
national.

⸺ FAN FITZGERALD. Pp. 340. (_Chatto & Windus_). 6_s._ 1902.

Young Dick Burke, brought up in England, feels the call of the
Celt, and returns to his inherited estates with intent to be
a model landlord. We are told in a lively and amusing style
how he succeeds or fails. The Author is nationalist, but by no
means a bitter partisan.

⸺ THE WINE OF LOVE. 1904.

Deals mainly with the upper classes in the West of Ireland.
Abuses of landlordism not spared. Picture of horse-dealing,
fox-hunting, and card-playing lives. Also picture of typically
good landlords. Standpoint on the whole national and even
Catholic. Style: breezy and vigorous. Good knowledge shown of
inner lives and feelings of all classes.

⸺ THE SPLENDID KNIGHT. Pp. 262. (_Sealy, Bryers_). Illustr. by Lawson Wood. 1905.

Adventures of an Irish boy in Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition
up the Orinoco. A brisk and entertaining narrative.

⸺ GOLDEN MORN. Pp. 303. (_Cassell_). Frontisp. 1907.

Tells the strange adventures in Ireland, London, and France
of Captain O’Grady. At Leopardstown Races his mare breaks her
neck, just at the finish; the Captain loses a fortune, and is
fain to depart on his travels—but “all is well that ends well,”
and it is so with Captain O’Grady.

⸺ O’GRADY OF TRINITY. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 6_s._ Re-issued by C. H. White at 6_d._ 1909.

Fun, frolic, and love in a student’s career. A gay and
wholesome novel. Sympathetic picture of Trinity College life.
Highly praised by Lionel Johnston.

⸺ THE CONSIDINE LUCK. Pp. 300. (_Swift_). 6_s._ 1912.

It was popularly believed that the estate could not pass from
Considine hands. Sir Hugh C. dies, and lo! the estate is found
to be mortgaged to Mr. Smith, of London. Mr. Smith arrives, and
brings with him his English notions which he proceeds to carry
out to the disgust of the locality. He refuses all attempts
to buy him out, but the Considine luck comes to the rescue,
and the estate falls once more into the hands of a Considine.
Pleasant, light style.

=HOARE, Mrs.=

⸺ SHAMROCK LEAVES; or, Tales and Sketches of Ireland. Pp. 237. (_M’Glashan_). 1851.

If one could abstract from the bits of gossipy anecdote
intended as links to the principal stories, this book consists
of several studies, touching and true to the reality, of the
lives of the poor, and in particular of their sufferings during
and after the Famine years. Written with much sympathy for the
lowly, and a vivid sense of actuality. Most of the tales have a
moral, but it does not spoil the story.

=HOBHOUSE, Violet.= Born 1864. Eldest daughter of Edmund McNeill, D.L., of Craigdunn, Co. Antrim. Married Rev. Walter Hobhouse, second son of Bishop Hobhouse. She was devoted to Irish traditions, folklore, &c., and could speak Irish, but was a keen Unionist, and in 1887 and the following years spoke much against Home Rule on English platforms. After her death in 1902 a small volume of poems, serious and deeply religious, _Speculum Animae_ was printed for private circulation.

⸺ AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY. Pp. 382. (_Downey_). 6_s._ 1898.

⸺ WARP AND WEFT. (_Skeffington_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1899.

“A conscientious rendering of homely aspects of life in Co.
Antrim.”—(_Baker_).

=HOCKING, Rev. Joseph.=

⸺ ROSALEEN O’HARA. Pp. 352. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 3_s._ 6_d._ and 1_s._ Two illustr. 1913.

A product of the Home Rule controversy. The Author is a noted
anti-Catholic writer, but he is also a Liberal, and desirous of
defending Liberalism from the charge of seeking to establish
Rome Rule in Ireland. Home Rule, so reads the story, would mean
Rome Rule for some years, but would ultimately lead to the
emancipation of the Irish from the thralldom of priestcraft and
dogma. The story tells of Denis who unexpectedly discovers that
he is heir to an Irish estate, and neighbour of Elenore Tyrone,
whom he had seen and loved. A quarrel and the attractions
of the beautiful “Fenian,” Rosaleen, separate the two for a
time. The Author clearly knows little or nothing of Ireland,
but he would like to be benevolent in tone to “dear old
beautiful Erin.” By the same Author: _Follow the Gleam_, _The
Wilderness_, _The Jesuit_, _The Scarlet Woman_, and some thirty
other novels.

=HOEY, Mrs. Cashel=, _née_ =Sarah Johnston.= Born at Bushy Park, Co. Dublin, 1830. Wife of the well-known Irish journalist, John Cashel Hoey (d. 1892). Has published more than twenty-seven volumes, _e.g._, _The Question of Cain_ (1882), _The Lover’s Creed_, _No Sign_ (1876), _The Queen’s Token_, _A Stern Chase_, &c., &c. She became a Catholic in 1858. D. 1908.

=HOLLAND, Denis.= A well-known Irish journalist. Born in Cork about 1826. He founded THE IRISHMAN, 1858. _See_ Pigot’s _Recollections of an Irish Journalist_, and D. J. O’Donoghue’s _Poets of Ireland_.

⸺ DONAL DUN O’BYRNE: A Tale of the Rising in Wexford in 1798. Pp. 224. (_Gill_). 1_s._ _n.d._

The story of the rising (including Oulart, Tubberneering,
Gorey, and Ross, and the guerilla warfare after Vinegar Hill)
from an insurgent’s point of view. The book is full of scenes
of blood, and breathes a spirit of vengeance. The narrative is
not remarkable. Some of the scenes border on indelicacy.

⸺ ULICK O’DONNELL: an Irish Peasant’s Progress. 1860.

A romantic and pleasant story. Adventures in Liverpool and
elsewhere in England of a clever peasant lad from Newry. He
wins his way by his sterling qualities, and returns prosperous
to his native Co. Down. Author tries to bring out contrasting
characteristics of English and Irish.

=HOLT, Emily S.=

⸺ UNDER ONE SCEPTRE; or, Mortimer’s Mission. (_Shaw_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1884.

Career of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster (1374-98)
in Monmouthshire, Ireland, and London. He was lieutenant of
Ulster, Connaught, and Meath. Richard II. declared him heir to
the throne, but later grew jealous of his popularity. He was
slain at Kells in battle with Art McMurrough Kavanagh. Juvenile.

=HOPKINS, Tighe.= Born 1856. Son of Rev. W. R. Hopkins, Vicar of Moulton, Cheshire. Besides the work mentioned here this Author ed. Carleton’s _Traits and Stories_ in the “Red Letter Library,” and wrote _Kilmainham Memories_, several novels, and various other works. Resides at Herne Bay. Has written many other novels:—_For Freedom_, _The Silent Gate_, _Tozer’s_, _’Twixt Love and Duty_, &c.

⸺ THE NUGENTS OF CARRICONNA. Three Vols., afterwards one Vol. (_Ward & Downey_). 1890.

Main theme: an old impoverished family suddenly enriched
by Australian legacy. Interwoven there is an interesting
love-story. Anthony Nugent, eccentric, of astronomical tastes,
has on his housetop a telescope which plays a prominent part
in the story. Brogue well done. The dramatic interest centred
in an Inspector of Police, a type probably very rare in Irish
fiction.

=HOPPER, Nora; Mrs. W. H. Chesson.=

⸺ BALLADS IN PROSE. Pp. 186. (_Lane_). 5_s._ Beautifully bound and printed. 1894.

Strange, wayward tales of far-off pagan days in which one moves
as in a mist of dreams. Soaked with Gaelic fairy and legendary
lore. The prose pieces, all very short, are interspersed with
little poems, that are slight and frail as wreaths of vapour.
Some of the stories are symbolical. They are told in simple and
graceful prose.

=HUDSON, Frank.= This Author, after many years’ work for Dublin periodicals, went to London early in the ’eighties. He wrote a few Irish sporting novels of a light and humorous kind.

⸺ THE ORIGIN OF PLUM PUDDING, and other Irish Fairy Tales. Illustr. by Gordon Browne. 1888.

Only one of these five stories is genuinely Irish—“Shaun
Murray’s Challenge,” the scene of which is Dalkey. The
title-story tells how a drunken man one evening threw his sack
of groceries into a pot on the fire, and in the morning found a
plum-pudding.

⸺ THE LAST HURDLE: a Story of Sporting and Courting. Pp. 304. (_Ward & Downey_). 1888.

Life in an Irish county family of the old stock, with
sympathy for the poor around them. Good idea of refined
Irish country life and its easy-going ways. A story full of
sport, gaiety, and dramatic incidents, turning mainly on the
winning of the heroine by the hero in spite of the plots of
the rival. Good and bad landlords are contrasted. An eviction
scene is described, with full sympathy for the victims.
Shamus-the-Trout, a poacher, is a very picturesque figure.

⸺ RUNNING DOUBLE: a Story of Stage and Stable. Two Vols. (_Ward & Downey_). 1890.

Scene: varies between England, Dublin, and “Ennisbeg.” There
are remarks on Irish life, scenery, and customs, but the chief
interest is sporting—fishing, racing, betting. The stage part
is in England. There is very little plot. All ends in a double
wedding.

=HUGHES, Mrs. Kate Duval.=

⸺ THE FAIR MAID OF CONNAUGHT: and other Tales for Catholic Youth. Pp. 178. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_ and _Benziger_). 1.25, 0.60, 0.30. 1889.

=HULL, Eleanor.= Born in Ireland of a Co. Down family. Daughter of Prof. Edward Hull, the eminent geologist, long Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland. Ed. at Alexandra Coll., Dublin, and in Brussels. Has written much—chiefly on Irish literature, folk-lore, and history—for various periodicals. Is the Author of eight important books on Irish subjects:—_Pagan Ireland_, _Early Christian Ireland_, _A Text-Book of Irish_ [Gaelic] _Literature_, _The Poem-Book of the Gael_. Has for many years studied Old Irish under the best professors, and it is her chief pleasure and interest. Founded in 1899 the Irish Texts Society, and has been its Hon. Secretary ever since. Is President of Irish Literary Society in London.

⸺ THE CUCHULLIN SAGA IN IRISH LITERATURE. Pp. lxxx. + 316. (_Nutt_). 1898.

A collection of fourteen stories relating to Cuchulin,
translated from the Irish by various scholars (Meyer, O’Curry,
Stokes, Windisch, O’Grady, Duvan, &c.). A more valuable
work, says Fiona MacLeod (in substance), for students of
Gaelic legend and literature than the more recent works by
Lady Gregory. The book is not cast in an artistic mould. It
merely contains the rude materials from which epic and lyric
inspiration may be drawn. Important and valuable Introduction
deals with literary qualities of the Saga, its historical
aspects and its mythology. Map of Ireland to illustrate
Cuchulin Saga. Appendix contains chart of Cuchulin Saga. Notes
pp. 289-297.

⸺ CUCHULAIN, THE HOUND OF ULSTER. Pp. 279. (_Harrap_). 5_s._ net. Illustr. in colour by Stephen Reid. [1909].

Intended for young, but not very young readers. Told in modern
language, free from Gaelicisms, archaisms, and difficult names.
The story is continuous, not told in detached episodes. The
style, though without the strange wild grandeur of Standish
O’Grady, is on the whole beautiful. The story itself is full
of the spirit of heroism and chivalry. It is selected and
adapted from many sources (indicated in Appendix), and the epic
narrative is not mixed with puerile or absurd episodes. Some of
the illustrations are excellent, others tend, perhaps, too much
to quaintness.

=HUME, Martin.=

⸺ TRUE STORIES OF THE PAST. Pp. xi. + 226. (_Eveleigh Nash_). 5_s._ net. 1911.

Ed. with introd. by R. B. Cunningham Grahame. Eight stories
from History. i. “How Rizzio was Avenged;” ii. “A Rebellious
Love-match;” iii. “Prince and Pastry Cook;” iv. “The Revenge of
John Hawkins;” v. “The Scapegoat;” vi. “Sir Walter [Raleigh]’s
Homecoming;” vii. “Cloth of Gold and Frieze.” Some of these
treat of the amours of great personages. Their standpoint is,
of course, English and Protestant. viii. “The Last Stand of the
O’Sullivans” is told with much spirit, and with sympathy for
the Irish cause. It does not include the famous retreat of the
O’Sullivans.

=HUNGERFORD, Mrs.= Born 1855. Daughter of Canon Hamilton, Rector of Ross, Co. Cork. Ed. in Ireland. Her early home was St. Brenda’s, Co. Cork. Wrote upwards of forty-six novels dealing with the more frivolous aspects of modern society. They had a great vogue in their day. The most popular of all was, perhaps, _Molly Bawn_ (1878). Most of her books appeared Anon. Her plots are poor and conventional, but she possessed the faculty of reproducing faithfully the tone of contemporary society. She died at Bandon 1897.—(D.N.B.).

⸺ MOLLY BAWN. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ and 2_s._ (BOSTON: _Caldwell_). 0.75. [1878].

“A love tale of a tender, but frivolous and petulant Irish
girl, who flirts and arouses her lover’s jealousy, and
who offends against the conventions in all innocence. A
gay and witty story spiced with slang, and touched with
pathos.”—(_Baker_).

⸺ A LITTLE IRISH GIRL; and other Stories. (LONDON: _Whitefriars Libr._). 1891.

⸺ THE O’CONNORS OF BALLYNAHINCH. Pp. 261. (_Heinemann_). 1_s._ 6_d._ 1896.

A domestic story of love and marriage in the Author’s lightest
vein. The characters belong chiefly to the landlord class, a
local carman being the only peasant introduced. There is no
expression of political views. The scene is laid in Cork.

⸺ NORA CREINA. Pp. 328. (_Chatto & Windus_). 1903.

A love-story from start to finish, without pretence of the
study of character. The story of how Norah is won from dislike
to love is pleasantly told. No politics. Peasants hardly
mentioned. Scene not specified.

=HUNT, B.=

⸺ FOLK TALES OF BREFFNY. Pp. viii. + 197. (_Macmillan_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1913.

Breffny, _i.e._, Cavan and Leitrim. Many of these stories—there
are twenty-six of them, all very short—“were told by an
old man, who said he had more and better learning nor the
scholars,” and are a curious mixture of literary language,
and a very peculiar and picturesque peasant dialect. They are
somewhat off the ordinary lines of folk-lore stories, and are
told in a quaint drily-humorous vein.

=HYDE, Dr. Douglas, LL.D., D.Litt.; “An Craobhin Aoibhinn.”= Son of late Rev. Arthur Hyde, Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon. Ed. T.C.D. Has been President of the Gaelic League since its foundation in 1893. Is Professor of Modern Irish in the National University of Ireland.

⸺ BESIDE THE FIRE. Gaelic Folk-stories. Collected, ed. (Irish text facing English), and trans. by D. H. With Introd., Notes on Irish text, and Notes on tales, by Ed. and Alfred Nutt. Pp. lviii. + 204. (_Nutt_). 7_s._ 6_d._ 1891.

Extremely interesting and valuable Preface (50 pages) by the
Author, in which he reviews what had been hitherto done for
Irish folk-lore, remarks on the genesis of the folk-tale, its
affinities with the Scotch folk-tale, and tells us where and
from whom and in what circumstances he got his stories, ending
by some explanations of the style of his translations. The
preface is followed by some critical remarks on it by Alfred
Nutt. The English of the translations is that of the peasants.
This is the first really scientific treatment of Irish
folk-lore.

⸺ THE ADVENTURES OF THE LAD OF THE FERULE.

⸺ THE ADVENTURES OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KING OF NORWAY. (_Irish Texts Society_). 1899.

Two Irish romantic tales of the 16th and 17th centuries,
ed. and transl. for the first time with introd., notes, and
glossary. The “Lad” is a mysterious being who appears to
Murough, son of Brian Boru, and carrying home for him the
spoils of a miraculous hunting, demands as reward a certain
ferule that lies at the bottom of a lake. Murough slays a
serpent, and delivers the land of the Ever Young, which lies
at the bottom of the lake. The second is a long story of
enchantment and marvellous adventures.—(_Baker_, 2).

⸺ An Sgéalaidhe Gaedhealach: Connaught Folk Tales. Three Parts. With French Trans. by Georges Dottin. (_Rennes_). Parts 1 and 2, 10_s._; Part 3, 2_s._ 1901.

⸺ LEGENDS OF SAINTS AND SINNERS. Pp. xiv. + 295. (_Talbot Press: Every Irishman’s Library_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1915.

Forty-six stories described by the Author as Christian
folk-lore, all translated for the first time from the Irish,
and for the most part gathered from the lips of the people
by the Author himself, who has been gathering folklore for
twenty-five years. Each tale is preceded by a preface giving
all the details of its collection, origin, character, &c., that
are of interest to the folk-lorist as well as to the general
reader. The tales are compared with similar tales occurring in
foreign countries.

=INGELOW, Jean. 1820-1897.=

⸺ OFF THE SKELLIGS. Three Vols. (_Keegan Paul._ BOSTON: _Roberts_). [1872]. Second ed., _c._ 1881.

Has no other connection with Ireland than the episode of the
picking up near the Skellig Island, off Waterville, Co. Kerry,
of a boat’s crew that had escaped from a burning ship.

=IRVINE, Alexander.= B. in town of Antrim of very poor parents. Was a newsboy in Antrim, a coal-miner in Glasgow, a Marine. Began again at the bottom in N.Y. 1888, and went through extraordinary experiences. Is a Socialist. Lives in Peekskill, N.Y. See his autobiography _From the Bottom Up_. (_Heinemann_). 1910.

⸺ MY LADY OF THE CHIMNEY CORNER. Pp. 224. (_Nash_). 3_s._ 6_d._ net. Eight eds. in three or four months. 1914.

Sub-t.:—“A story of love and poverty in Irish peasant life.”
The central figure—almost the only figure in the book—is Anna
Gilmore, a poor woman living in Pogue’s Entry, in the town of
Antrim. Brought up as a pious Catholic by Catholic parents,
she marries a Protestant against their wish. Henceforth she
has renounced Catholicism, having chosen, as she says, love
instead of religion. To show that her choice was of the better
part seems to be the purpose of the Author. The book is a
lovingly-drawn portrait, with slight incidents, and the many
wise sayings of Anna as traits. There is a strong evangelical
religious atmosphere throughout. The story is largely in
dialect. It is laid in Famine times; yet there are several
mention of Fenians, which seems to spell Catholic. The book
would be better understood by a reading of the Author’s
autobiography, _From the Bottom Up_.

=IRVINE, G. Marshall, B.A., M.B.=

⸺ THE LION’S WHELP. Pp. 406. (_Simpkin_). 6_s._ 1910.

Introd. (by J. Campbell, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S., LL.D. (_Hon.
Causa_)) says, “In writing _The Lion’s Whelp_ Dr. Irvine has
set before himself two main objects. He desires to inculcate
on the medical profession the necessity which exists for the
education of the public in all that pertains to the maintenance
of health ... and he wishes to impress upon the public all
that is summed up in the time-worn adage—‘Prevention is better
than cure.’” Incidentally, the book is also a satire against
professional make-believe. Scene varies between Belfast, the
North of England, and Denver City, U.S.A. The hero, Dan Nevin,
starts his career as a doctor, with high ideals—too high,
as he discovers, for real life. The story is concerned with
his love-affair and various other adventures. A fine plot,
well worked out, with several striking characters. Moral tone
high. Religion scarcely touched upon. There are interesting
descriptions of Co. Down scenery and of life in Queen’s
College, Belfast. The Author is a doctor, practising in Co.
Armagh.

=IRWIN, Madge.=

⸺ THE DIAMOND MOUNTAIN; or, Flowers of Fairyland. (DUNDALK: _The Dundalgan Press_). 1_s._ Illustr. by A. Donnelly. 1908. Cover in white and gold.

=IRWIN, Thomas Caulfield.= 1823-1892. Is better known as a poet than as a prose-writer. Yet he wrote one hundred and thirty tales of various length, essays on many subjects, and an historical romance “From Cæsar to Christ.” He was of unsound mind for a number of years before his death.

⸺ WINTER AND SUMMER STORIES AND SLIDES OF FANCY’S LANTERN. Pp. 252. Close print. (_Gill_). 1879.

Contents: 1. “Old Christmas Hall;” 2. “The First Ring”; 3.
“An Irish Fairy Sketch”; 4. “The Miser’s Cottage”; 5. “By
Moonlight”; 6. “By Gaslight”; 7. “A Visit to a Great Artist”;
8. “Falstaff’s Wake”; 9. “A Scene in Macbeth’s Castle”; 10.
“Julio”; 11. “A Death”; 12. “Visions of an Old Voyage from Rome
to Asia”; 13. “The Shores of Greece”; 14. “Theocritus”; 15. “A
Glimpse of Arcadia”; 16. “A Ballad of Old Dublin” (verse); 17.
“Corney McClusky” (verse); 18. “Ethel Maccara”; 19. “Pausias
and Glycera”; 20. “Manon and her Spirit Lover”; 21. “An Ancient
Aryan Legend”; 22. “A Florentine Fortune”; 23. “Insielle’s
Dimple and Fan.”

Miscellaneous sketches and stories. Several are literary
_jeux-desprit_ (_e.g._, 8, 9, 10). Others slight studies of
curious little aspects of life, rather imaginary than real.
For the most part, however, they are peculiar, weird tales,
several touching the preternatural, but not morbid. The prose
is poetic, imaginative, and of high literary qualities—at times
comparable with those of de Quincey, _e.g._, in No. 4, p. 72,
_sq._ Here and there are exquisite pen-pictures. Several of the
tales have Irish settings. No. 4 has curious pictures of old
Dublin, _c._ 1770.

=JACOBS, Joseph.=

⸺ CELTIC FAIRY TALES. Pp. xvi. + 274. (_Nutt_). 6_s._ Complete edition. [1891]. Third, 1902.

Eight full-page plates and numerous illustrations in the text
by J. D. Batten. The pictures are exquisite, and could scarcely
be more appropriate. Interesting and valuable Notes and
References at end, about 30 pages, giving the source of each
tale and parallels. The tales are drawn mainly from previous
printed collections. The twenty-six tales include some Scotch
and Welsh. Some are hero-tales, as “Deirdre,” and “The Children
of Lir”; some folk-tales; some drolls, _i.e._, comic anecdotes
of feats of stupidity or cunning. There are practically no
fairy-tales properly so called. The tales are admirably
selected, and are told in simple, straightforward language.

⸺ MORE CELTIC FAIRY TALES. Pp. xvi. + 234. (_Nutt_). 6_s._ Complete edition.

All that has been said of the first series can be applied to
the second, which is in every way worthy of its predecessor.
Twenty stories. The two volumes may fairly be said to
constitute the most representative and attractive collection of
Celtic tales ever issued.

⸺ CELTIC FAIRY TALES. By Joseph Jacobs and J. D. Batten. (_Nutt_). 3_s._ 6_d._

⸺ MORE CELTIC FAIRY TALES. By the same Authors. (_Nutt_). 3_s._ 6_d._

The above are children’s editions of these well-known books.
The text is practically the same as in the complete edition,
but there are two or three illustrations omitted, as well as
the Introduction and Notes. The tales are well known to be
admirably suited to children.

N.B.—The same writers have edited _English Fairy Tales_, _More
English Fairy Tales_, _Indian Fairy Tales_, and _The Book of
Wonder Voyages_, which includes the voyage of Maelduin.

=“JAMES, Andrew”; James Andrew Strahan, LL.D.=, a Belfast man, Prof. of Jurisprudence in the Queen’s Univ. there.

⸺ NINETY-EIGHT AND SIXTY YEARS AFTER. (_Blackwood_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1911.

In two parts. Part I. (four short stories) is told in dialect
(correctly rendered) by an old schoolmaster, and relates
incidents of the rebellion in Presbyterian Ulster, in which
the narrator’s father had played a part on the loyalist side.
Shows thorough understanding of the political and social
conditions of the time, and is written in evident sympathy with
the rebels, though with no blind partisanship. Part II. (four
chapters of a longer story) introduces the supernatural, ghosts
of ’98 returning to influence events sixty years after. A book
of much power and truth.

=JARROLD, Ernest.=

⸺ MICKEY FINN IDYLLS. Pp. 281. (N.Y.: _Harper_). 1899. Introd. by Charles A. Dana (N.Y. _Sun_).

Reprinted from the SUNDAY SUN, LESLIE’S WEEKLY, &c. Micky is a
youngster of 9 or 10, born of Irish parents, settled at Coney
Island, where the scene of the idylls is laid. A good deal of
humour and some pathos. A goat figures largely in the sketches.

⸺ MICKY FINN’S NEW IRISH YARNS. N.Y. 1902.

=JAY, Harriett.= A sister-in-law and adopted daughter of the late Robert Buchanan, Scottish poet and novelist. She lived for some years in Mayo, and the result of her observations was two good novels. She wrote also _Madge Dunraven_, and some other novels.

⸺ THE QUEEN OF CONNAUGHT. (_Chatto & Windus_). Picture boards. 2_s._ _n.d._ (1875).

How an Englishman, John Bermingham, fell in love with and
married the descendant of an old western family. How he
tried, but failed, to reform with English ideas the Connaught
peasantry. Told with considerable power and insight. Note
especially the description of a police hunt over the mountains
in the snow. Has been dramatised.

⸺ THE DARK COLLEEN. Three Vols. (_Bentley_). 1876.