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. brings her to New York in search of her mother, whom she discovers sunk to the lowest moral depths. The story hinges partly, too, on the lifting of the curse of Glendarragh by Miriam and the hero, who makes her happy in the end. There are not a few fine dramatic situations, but the plot does not hang together. The book is meant to deal with Irish social and religious problems and to picture certain phases of Irish life. The life pictured is chiefly that of the Protestant upper classes, of whom a severe and satirical portrait is drawn. There are just a few glimpses of peasant life. The Author raises more problems than he solves, and the prevailing impression left upon the reader is one of gloom. Has been transl. into German.

⸺ THE GRAVES AT KILMORNA. Pp. 373. (_Longmans_). 6_s._ 1915.

An attempt to set forth the spirit of the Fenian movement of 1867, and even to contrast it with subsequent movements, to the great disadvantage of the latter; for the Author thought that the fire of Nationality has burned very low since ’67. The heroes are James Halpin (apparently intended for Peter O’Neill Crowley, who fell in ’67) and Miles Cogan, Fenians and unselfish patriots. There is some good character drawing, but the interest of plot and incident is slight, the chief interest being the vein of very ideal philosophy which runs through the book. The Author is gloomy and pessimistic about modern Ireland.

=SHERLOCK, J.=

⸺ THE MAD LORD OF DRUMKEEL. Pp. 199. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1909.

“An unexciting chronicle of the solitary Lord Barnabweel, his quaint experiments with his Irish property and tenantry, and the story of his son who left him, married in a Dublin lodging-house, and became a famous musician.”—(TIMES’ LIT. SUPPL.).

=SIDGWICK, Ethel.=

⸺ HERSELF. (_Sidgwick & Jackson_). 1912.

The story of an Irish girl in Paris and of her life and love affairs there. Pleasantly written, and giving a kindly account of the Irish character. (_Press Notice_).

=SIGERSON, Hester.=

⸺ A RUINED RACE; or, the Last Macmanus of Drumroosk. (_Ward & Downey_). 6_s._ 1890.

A very gloomy view of Ireland. The Author displays intimate knowledge of Irish scenes, idioms, and characteristics. Period: middle of nineteenth century. Pictures with painful fidelity and much power the misfortunes of a once happy and prosperous couple belonging to the well-to-do peasant class. Misery seems to dog their steps from one end of the book to the other. The girl dies in the workhouse, the man takes to drink and is killed in an accident. Seems to aim at picturing the difficulties and sufferings of the peasantry, especially under the old land system. The Author was the wife of Dr. Geo. Sigerson.

=SIME, William.= B. Wick, Caithness, 1851. D. Calcutta, 1895. Author of several other works of fiction—_King Capital_, _To and Fro_, _Boulderstone_.

⸺ THE RED ROUTE; or, Saving a Nation. Three Vols. (_Sonnenschein_). 1884.

Scene: West and South of Ireland, beginning with Galway, where the hero, Finn O’Brien, goes to college and suffers much both from collegians and peasantry. Finn becomes a Fenian, but falls in love with an English widow who had become a Catholic to escape the pursuit of bishops and parsons of her own Church. The heroine is a Claddagh girl, whose love for an English captain, Jeffrey, is crossed by the fact that she is a Fenian. One of the love affairs ends happily, the other tragically. The Author is not anti-Irish, but knows little about Ireland. He drags in priests “smelling strongly of whiskey” and nuns who have broken their vows.

=SIMPSON, John Hawkins.=

⸺ POEMS OF OISIN, Bard of Erin. Pp. 280. (_M’Glashan & Gill_). 1857.

Translated into English prose from Irish by the Author with help of native speakers. Contents: Oisin, Bard of Erin (introductory by the Author); Deardra; Conloch Son of Cuthullin (_sic_); The Fenii of Erin and Fionn MacCumhal; Dialogue between Oisin and St. Patrick (pp. 61-184); Mayo Mythology (various Fenian Tales); The Battle of Ventry.

=SKELLY, Rev. A. M., O.P.=

⸺ CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE. Pp. 48. (C.T.S.I.). 1_d._ 1908.

A paper read before the Catholic Literary Society, Tralee. The Cuchulain epic briefly but admirably related. Passages of verse from Ferguson and De Vere are skilfully interwoven. Excellent notes at the end explain difficulties and references.

=SMART, Hawley.=

⸺ THE MASTER OF RATHKELLY. (_F. V. White_). Fifth ed. 1890.

A stirring story of love and sport in “Co. Blarney” in “the eighties.” Mr. Eyre, one of the “ould stock,” gets into difficulties with his tenants, who stop the “Harkhallow” hounds and boycott him. Written from the English and landlord standpoint. The dialect is wonderfully good and the “horsey” scenes well done. The Author was a well-known sporting novelist; 1833-1893.

=SMITH, Agnes; Mrs. Lewis.=

⸺ THE BRIDES OF ARDMORE: A Story of Irish Life. Pp. 393. (_Elliott, Stock_). Frontisp.—view of Ardmore. 1880.

Ardmore, Co. Waterford, in twelfth century. A few descriptions of scenery, but little local colour, and almost no historical _mise-en-scène_. The chief object of the story appears to be to picture forth a “primitive” Irish Church, unconnected with Rome, and resembling the modern Church of Ireland in many of its features. The priests are all married. Indeed their matrimonial affairs and the cruel interruption of these by decrees from Rome provide the greater part of the incidents. The tone is not bitter towards Catholicism, but innocently patronising and didactic.

=[SMITH, John].=

⸺ IRISH DIAMONDS. Pp. 183. 16mo. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1847. (_Gibbings_). Five Illus. by “Phiz.” 1890.

Chapters:—On the Road, Young Ireland, Irish Wit, Irish Life, Irish Traits, The Latter End. Humorous Irish anecdotes, rather above the average “pigs, poteen, and praties” type, frankly meant to amuse, but showing not a little knowledge of and sympathy with Irish traits. When the book was written the Author was “one of the editors of the LIVERPOOL MERCURY.”

=SMYTH, Patrick G.= B. Ballina, Co. Mayo, about 1856. Was in early years a National School teacher. Besides his novels, he wrote verse for several Irish periodicals between 1876-1885. For some time he was engaged on a Chicago paper.

⸺ THE WILD ROSE OF LOUGH GILL. Pp. 306. (_Gill_). 2_s._ 6_d._ [1883]. Fifth ed., 1904. (_Benziger_). 0.85.

Though nominally not the heroes, Owen Roe O’Neill and Miles the Slasher are the chief figures in this fine novel of the Wars of the Confederation. A love-story is interwoven with the historical events. The view-point is thoroughly national. The style abounds in imagery and fine descriptive passages. The novel is one of the most popular ever issued in Ireland. The story ends shortly after the fall of Galway in 1652. The scene is laid partly in Co. Sligo, where (near Lough Gill) one of the most thrilling episodes, founded on a still living tradition, takes place.

⸺ KING AND VIKING; or, The Ravens of Lochlan. Pp. 200. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1_s._ _n.d._ (1889).

Tireragh (Co. Sligo) in 888, the date assigned by the Four Masters to a great battle fought between the men of Connaught and the Danes. The wars between Danes and Irish furnish the chief interest of the book, but there is also the story of the feud between Ceallach the tanist of Hy Fiachrach and Dungallach, a rival. Much information, drawn from reliable sources, is given regarding the Irish clans, their customs, and their territories.

=SOMERVILLE, Edith Œnone, and “MARTIN, Ross.”= Miss Violet Martin, of Ross, Co. Galway. Miss Somerville is dau. of the late Col. Somerville, of Drishane, Skibbereen, Co. Cork. Both Authors are granddaughters of Chief Justice Charles Kendal Bushe. Amongst their other works are _Naboth’s Vineyard_, _Beggars on Horseback_, and _Through Connemara in a Governess’ Cart_ (illust.).

⸺ AN IRISH COUSIN. Pp. iv. + 306. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [First ed., 1889]; new ed., quite re-written, 1903. Ten illustr. by E. Œ. Somerville.

Modern country-house life in Co. Cork. A serious study of the slow awakening of a young man to the realization that there are things in life more real to him than horses and dogs. His love for a clever cousin returned from Canada has a tragic ending. The characters of the tale are drawn from Protestant county society. Clever description of Durrus, the ramshackle home of the Sarsfields. Miss Jackson-Croly’s “At Home” and the run with the Moycullen hounds are said to be worthy of Lever.

⸺ THE REAL CHARLOTTE. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1894]. Three Vols. (_Ward & Downey_).

A dark tale of a world “weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable.” An unscrupulous woman works the ruin of a sweet-natured, ill-trained girl. Scene: Irish country neighbourhood. Characters, land agents, farmers, great ladies, drawn with impartial and relentless truth. Pronounced by many critics to be worthy of Balzac.

⸺ THE SILVER FOX. Pp. 195. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1898]. (_Lawrence and Bullen_).

The chief interest of this story lies in some sporting scenes in the West of Ireland. The peasantry are seen from an uncomprehending standpoint, and the chief figures are people of fashion, of no particular nationality. “Broadly speaking, the novel may be said to exhibit in a dramatic form the extraordinary hold which superstition still possesses on the minds of the Irish peasantry.”—(_Spectator_).

⸺ SOME EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M. Pp. iv. + 310. Thirty-second thousand. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Thirty-one illustr. (pen and ink sketches) by E. Œ. Somerville. 1899.

Racy, humorous sketches of hunting and other episodes in the south and west. The Author’s most successful work originally appeared in THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE.

⸺ ALL ON THE IRISH SHORE. Pp. iv. + 274. Eighteenth thousand. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Ten illustr. by E. Œ. Somerville. 1903.

Sketches of fox-hunting, horse-dealing, racing, trials for assault between neighbours, petty boycotting, rural larking, full of sprightly and rollicking humour. Chief characters, the petty county gentry. The peasantry are drawn in caricature, usually friendly, and are shown in relation to their social superiors, not in their own life and reality. If these sketches were taken seriously, the peasantry would appear as drunken, quarrelsome, lying, dirty, unconsciously comical—with scarcely a single redeeming trait. The scene is south-western Cork.

_All on the Irish Shore_ has been described (IRISH MONTHLY) as “a blend of Lover and Lever (in his coarser rollicking days) refined by some of the literary flavour of Jane Barlow, but with none of the insight and sympathy of _Irish Idylls_. The same may be said of the _Experiences of an Irish R.M._, which moreover, contains here and there passages needlessly offensive to national feeling.” Titles of some chapters:—Fanny Fitz’s Gamble, A Grand Filly, High Tea at McKeown’s, A Nineteenth Century Miracle, &c.

N.B.—Messrs. Longmans have (April, 1910) issued a new uniform edition of the works of Somerville and Ross, at 3_s._ 6_d._ per volume.

⸺ FURTHER EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M. Pp. 315. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1908.

⸺ SOME IRISH YESTERDAYS. Eleventh thousand. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Fifty-one illustr. by E. Œ. Somerville. 1908.

Admirable illustrations of Connemara scenery, clever sketches of “natives” (usually of the lowest type). Light magazine sketches written in clever, racy style. Subjects: Holidays in Aran and Connemara and Carbery, picnics, country house anecdotes, superficial studies of peasants in Connemara and Cork. “In Sickness and in Health” pays a tribute to the strength of the marriage bond in Ireland.

⸺ DAN RUSSELL, THE FOX. Pp. 340. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1911.

Miss Rowan comes over to Ireland and takes “Lake View,” in the midst of a hunting district in S. Munster. She falls in love—for the time—with John Michael, handsome, and the most valiant of huntsmen, but a child of nature whose whole mind is absorbed in hounds and horses. Hence complications. The Author’s usual pictures of hunting scenes and happy-go-lucky country gentry. Mrs. Delanty, the sharp and devious widow, is a curious portrait. Dan Russell is scarcely more than a minor character in the piece. It is a story about which we cannot speak favourably.

⸺ IN MR. KNOX’S COUNTRY. (_Longmans_). 6_s._ Eight full-page illustr. in chalk. 1915.

Eleven sketches of the same type as the _Experiences of an Irish R.M._, with some new _dramatis personæ_ in the old localities.

=SQUIRE, Charles.=

⸺ THE BOY HERO OF ERIN. Pp. 240. (_Blackie_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Handsome cover. Four good illustr. by A. A. Dixon. 1907.

The Cuchulainn Saga told in simple and clear, but somewhat unemotional and matter-of-fact, style. Sources: Miss Hull’s _Cuchulainn Saga_ and Miss Winifred Faraday’s _Cattle Raid of Cuailgne_ (_q.v._). The Author holds Cuchulainn to be a hero “not less brave and far more chivalrous than any Greek or Trojan” (Pref.), and thinks that the ancient Gael “invented the noble system of conduct which we call courtesy.”

⸺ CELTIC MYTH AND LEGEND, Poetry and Romance. Pp. 450. (_Gresham Publishing Co._). Four Plates in colour by J. H. F. Bacon; fourteen in monochrome by the same and others, and a few photos, _n.d._

A kind of digest of the chief published translations of ancient Irish and Welsh saga and romance, preceded by four short essays on the interest of Celtic mythology, and the sources of our knowledge of it, the origin of the Britons and their religion (44 pp. in all). Pp. 47-248 are a summary of Gaelic myth, &c., and pp. 250-395 of British ditto. Then there is an essay on survivals of Celtic paganisms, and an Append. giving brief bibliogr. Index. The myths and romances are not related as a tale is told; they are merely placed on record, almost stripped of their poetry, along with all the extravagances and absurdities that disfigure them, chiefly through modern corruptions. Of little or no interest for young people.

=STACE, Henry.=

⸺ THE ADVENTURES OF COUNT O’CONNOR in the Dominions of the Great Mogul. Pp. 343. (_Alston Rivers_). 1_s._ [1907]. 1909.

A string of impossible situations and thrilling escapes, purporting to be the adventures of an Irish soldier of fortune in India about 1670, related by himself. The Count frequently discourses of the honour of an Irish gentleman, and never acts up to it. His character is that of a thorough rascal. The book contains many disreputable adventures in harems.

=STACPOOLE KENNY, Mrs.= _see_ =KENNY=.

=STACPOOLE, H. de Vere.= Son of Rev. William Church Stacpoole, D.D., of Kingstown, Co. Dublin. Ed. Malvern College, and St. Mary’s Hospital, London. Is a qualified medical man, but does not practise. Has travelled much. Resides near Chelmsford. Has publ. about twenty-two novels.—(WHO’S WHO). Some of these have been very successful, _e.g._, _The Blue Lagoon_.

⸺ PATSY. Pp. 362. (_Fisher Unwin_). 6_s._ 1908.

A gay and humorous story of a house-party in a country mansion somewhere in “Mid-Meath.” Full of amusing characters, cleverly sketched, _e.g._, the Englishman, Mr. Fanshawe, and the naughty and natural children. Above all there is Patsy, the page-boy, an odd mixture of soft-hearted simplicity and preternatural cuteness. He is the _deus ex machina_ of the piece, causes all sorts of entanglements, and unravels them again in the strangest way. There is just a little study of national characteristics, but no politics nor problems.

⸺ GARRYOWEN: The Romance of a Racehorse. Pp. 352. (_Fisher Unwin_). 6_s._ 1910.

“A rattling good story ... Moriarty the trainer is a gem—Mickey Free redivivus, as full of tricks as a bag of weasels. The Author knows his Irish peasantry inside and out, and the only blot on an exceptional book is a needless disquisition on the rights and wrongs of ‘cattle-driving.’”—(I.B.L.).

⸺ FATHER O’FLYNN. Pp. 245. (_Hutchinson_). 1_s._ 1914.

The idea of the book, which is dedicated to Sir E. Carson and Mr. Redmond, is (see Pref.) to show the Catholic priest as the chief factor in present-day Irish life. The priest in question is represented in a favourable and friendly spirit, though perhaps hardly “at his best,” as the Author suggests. The chief interest is perhaps a love affair, conducted chiefly on horseback, which is told in a lively and spirited way.

=STAVERT, A. A. B.=

⸺ THE BOYS OF BALTIMORE. Pp. 212. (_Burns & Oates_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1907.

A splendid boy’s story. Rich in the vein of adventure, of sport and fight by land, of war by sea, of captivity and slavery. With this there is a solid, but not too obtrusive, lesson of the value of faith and piety in a boy’s life. The piety of the young heroes has nothing mawkish about it. The tone is Catholic. The brogue is very badly imitated.—(N.I.R.). Scene changes from Cork to Africa, and thence to London. Strafford, Wentworth, Laud, and Charles I. appear in the story.

=STEPHENS, James.= B. Dublin, 1884. Worked for some years in a solicitor’s office, but has definitely taken to literature. His first published volume was _Insurrections_, since which two other volumes of verse have appeared, and a fourth is about to appear. Has resided principally in Paris for the past two years, but is now living in Dublin, where he holds the position of Registrar at the National Gallery of Ireland. His writings have met with an enthusiastic reception from the critics.

⸺ THE CHARWOMAN’S DAUGHTER. Pp. 228. (_Macmillan_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1912. Publ. in U.S.A. under title _Mary, Mary_.

A study of the soul of a simple girl of the people and its development amid the surroundings of a Dublin tenement house and of the Dublin streets—her girlhood, her dreams for the future, her love affairs. The incidents are quite subordinate to the psychological interest. The atmosphere of the reality is carefully reproduced if somewhat idealised. There is nothing morbid nor sensational in the book. This, the Author’s first published novel, and many think his best, first appeared in THE IRISH REVIEW.

⸺ THE CROCK OF GOLD. Pp. 312. (_Macmillan_). Many reprints. 1912.

Described, accurately enough, by THE TIMES as “this delicious, fantastical, amorphous, inspired medley of topsy-turveydom.” A fantasy in which human beings with Irish names, Irish gods and fairies, and the god Pan are mingled to bewilderment. And the whole is leavened with what may or may not be the Author’s philosophy. “Love is unclean and holy” ... “Virtue is the performance of pleasant actions.” “Philosophy would lead to the great sin of sterility.” These sentences are isolated from the context, but they seem to indicate the general trend—the philosophy of Pan. However, there is much besides this in the torrent of wayward thought and fancy that is here let loose. The pictures of nature are finely and delicately touched. And there is humour of a strange kind not easy to define.

⸺ HERE ARE LADIES. Pp. 349. (_Macmillan_). 5_s._ 1913.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=STEWART, Agnes M.=

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

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

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

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

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

=STEWART, Miss E. M.=

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

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

=STEWART, Rev. J.=

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

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

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

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

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

=STOKES, Whitley.= Ed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

=STRAIN, E. H.=

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

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

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

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

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

=SYKES, Jessica S. C.=

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

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

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

=“SYNAN, A.,”= _see_ =CLERY, A. E.=

=TAUNTON, M.=

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

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

=TAYLOR, Mary Imlay.=

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

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

=TEMPLETON, Herminie.=

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=THOMAS, Edward.=

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

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

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

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

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

=THOMSON, C. L.=

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

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

=THURNEYSEN, Rudolf.=

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=THYNNE, Robert.=

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=TOTTENHAM, G. L.=

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

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

=TOWNSHEND, Dorothea.=

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

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

[14] i.e., Fairies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scene: Co. Leitrim. Chief characters: the members of a broken-down Catholic county family. Miss MacDermott is engaged to a Sub-Inspector of police. This latter, because of certain difficulties that stand in the way of their marriage, attempts to elope with her. Her brother comes on the scene, and there is an affray, in which the Sub-Inspector is killed. Young MacDermott is tried and publicly hanged. This is the mere outline. More interesting is the background of Irish rural life, seen in its comic and quaint aspect, by an observant and not wholly unsympathetic Englishman. The portrait of the grand old Father John M’Grath is most life-like and engaging, but the pictures of low life in the village and among the illicit stills is vulgar in tone and the humour somewhat coarse. The

## book is spoken of by a competent critic, Sir G. O. Trevelyan,

as in some respects the Author’s best. The Author himself considers this his best plot. It has been spoken of as “one of the most melancholy books ever written.”

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

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

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

Scene: Co. Cork during the Famine years, 1847, and following, with which it deals fully. Tale of two old Irish families. The plot is commonplace enough but redeemed by great skill in the treatment, by admirable delineation of character, and by the drawing of the background. Absolutely cool and free from

## partisanship, he yet draws such a picture of those dreadful

times as, in days to come, it will be difficult to accept as free from exaggeration. It is a graphic and terrible picture. The noble character of Owen Fitzgerald is finely drawn. There are touches of pleasant humour and of satire.

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

⸺ PHINEAS REDUX. (_Bell_). 1874.

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

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

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

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

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

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

=TURK, S. A.=

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Motherless, and an only child, Biddy O’Connor brings herself up in a big, lonely Dublin house. Dr. O’Connor lives amid his memories and his books. Biddy is a winsome girl, and keeps the reader’s heart from the time we first meet her with the homeless dogs of Dublin as her favourite companions to the day when she weds the master of Coolbawn. The chief charm of the

## book lies in the picture of life amid the splendid scenery

of Connaught. The book has a pleasant atmosphere of bright simplicity and quick mirthfulness. The SPECTATOR calls it “fresh, unconventional, and poetic.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=UPTON, W. C.=

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

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

=VAIZEY, Mrs. G. de Horne.=

⸺ PIXIE O’SHAUGHNESSY.

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

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

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

=VANCE, Louis Joseph.=

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

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

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

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

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

=VERNE, Jules.=

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

The very varied and often exciting adventures of a poor waif. Rescued from a travelling showman at Westport, Co. Mayo, he is sent to a poor school in Galway, resembling the workhouse in _Oliver Twist_. Further adventures bring him to Limerick, and then to Tralee, and afterwards to many other parts of Ireland. The book is written in thorough sympathy with Ireland, and in

## particular with the sufferings of the poor under iniquitous

Land Laws, though at times with a little exaggeration. There is a vivid description of an eviction. Other aspects of Irish life are touched on, and with considerable knowledge. Dublin, Belfast, Killarney, Bray, are some of the places described. The spirit is Catholic: witness the kindly words on page 8 about Irish priests.

=“WALDA, Viola.”=

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

=WALSHE, Miss E. H.=

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

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

⸺ GOLDEN HILLS. (_R.T.S._). 1865.

The Famine.

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

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

=WARD, Mrs.=

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

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

=WATSON, Helen H.=

⸺ PEGGY, D.O.: the Story of the Seven O’Rourkes. Pp. 312. (_Cassell_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Four coloured plates from drawings by Gertrude Steele. 1910.

The story told by a little lame girl of fourteen of a proud Irish family reduced to a cheap flat, and living in discomfort and anxiety without losing their cheerfulness of heart. There is both humour and pathos. We are introduced to some pleasant and lovable children.

=WENTZ, Walter Yeeling Evans.=

⸺ THE FAIRY-FAITH IN CELTIC COUNTRIES: Its Psychica Origin and Nature. (RENNES: _Imprimerie Oberthur_). 1909.

The Author is Docteur ès Lettres, France; A.M., Stanford College, California; Member of Jesus College, Oxford; an American, and a pupil of Sir John Rhys, _q.v._ An investigation and discussion of “that specialised form of belief in a subjective realm inhabited by subjective beings which has existed from prehistoric times until now in Ireland, Scotland, Man, Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany.” The Author, a believer in the existence of fairies, went himself through many parts of the countries above mentioned and spoke with and studied the peasantry. Divisions of work: I. The Living Fairy Faith Psychically Considered. II. The Recorded Fairy Faith Psychically Considered. III. The Cult of Gods, Spirits, Fairies, and the Dead. IV. The Fairy Faith Reconstructed.

=[WEST, Jane].= 1758-1852. B. in London; the wife of a farmer in Northamptonshire. Author of _A Gossip’s Story_.

⸺ THE HISTORY OF NED EVANS: A Tale of the Times. Two Vols. (_Dublin_). [1796]. 1805.

Title-p.:—“Interspersed with moral and critical remarks; anecdotes and characters of many persons well known in the polite world; and incidental strictures on the present state of Ireland.” The hero is supposed to be the son of a Welsh parson. The story opens in 1779, and is the love story of the Lady Cecilia, daughter of Lord Ravensdale, and the hero, who turns out in the end to be the true Lord Ravensdale. The story is full of incident. Ch. xxii. brings the hero to Ireland. He has some adventures in Dublin, which is partly described; then goes down to Ravensdale, which is seventy-six miles from Dublin. He goes to the American war, and has many adventures with Indians, narrow escapes, &c.; but finally returns to wed Cecilia. The story is highly moral and sentimental, with a religious tone. The characters are mainly of the Anglo-Irish gentry—Lord Rivers, Lord Squanderfield, &c. The then state of Ireland is but slightly dwelt on.

=[WESTRUP, Margaret]; Mrs. W. Sydney Stacey.= Author of _Elizabeth’s Children_.

⸺ THE YOUNG O’BRIENS. Pp. 347. (_Lane_). 6_s._ 1906.

Doings of a family of Irish children left with an aunt in London during their father’s absence in India. With all their fun and pranks the children pine in London and long for the meadows and the woods of their home in Kilbrannan.

=WEYMAN, Stanley.=

⸺ THE WILD GEESE. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 6_s._ 1908. (N.Y.: _Doubleday_). 1.50. New thin paper ed., pp. 384, 2_s._ 1911.

Story of an abortive rising in Kerry in reign of George I., with exciting situations and a love interest. Style clear and vigorous. Irish characters nearly all vacillating, treacherous, and fanatical. Generally considered as giving an unreal idea of the times.

=WHISTLER, Rev. Charles Watts.= B. 1856. Author of a series of admirable stories for boys.

⸺ A SEA QUEEN’S SAILING. (_Nelson_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1907.

The Vikings about A.D. 935, time of Hakon the Good. Adventures of, among others, an Irish prince with the Vikings. Scene: northern and Irish coasts. Juvenile.

⸺ A PRINCE ERRANT. (_Nelson_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1908.

S.W. Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland about A.D. 792. Saxon, Briton, Norseman, and Dane. Juvenile.

=WHITE, Captain L. Esmonde.=

⸺ IRISH COAST TALES OF LOVE AND ADVENTURE. Pp. 307. (_Smith, Elder_). 1865.

Contains two tales—(1) “The Black Channel of Cloughnagawn;” (2) “The Lovers of Ballyvookan.” Dr. Small goes to the west as a dispensary doctor, and meets the various types of character. The pursuit of a slave ship is well described, as are the men who man the western hookers, and know every turn of the dangerous Black Channel. The second deals with the wreck of H.M.S. Wasp and the love story of Norah Flynn. Both are exciting stories. The brogue is fairly good.

=[WHITTY, Michael James].= (1795-1873).

⸺ TALES OF IRISH LIFE. Two Vols. 12mo. (LONDON: _Robins_). Six illustr. by Cruikshank. 1824.

“Illustrative of the manners, customs, and condition of the people.” Contents:—“Limping Mogue,” “The Rebel,” “The Absentee,” “The Robber,” “The Witch of Scollough’s Gap,” “The Informer,” “The Poor Man’s Daughter,” “Poor Mary,” “North and South, or Prejudice Removed” (showing, see especially pp. 29 _sq._, V. II., the Author’s freedom from bigotry), “The Priest’s Niece,” “The Last Chieftain of Erin,” “Turn-coat Watt” (Proselytism), “Protestant Bill,” &c. Intended “to disabuse the public mind and communicate information on a subject confessedly of importance.” Excellent stories by a journalist very well known in his day. B. Wexford, 1795, he came to London in 1821. In 1823 he was appointed editor of the LONDON AND DUBLIN MAGAZINE, in which he published his work on Robert Emmet. From 1829 till his death he lived and worked in Liverpool. His LIVERPOOL DAILY POST, 1855, was the first penny daily paper.—(D.N.B.). His son, E. M. Whitty (1827-1860), was a brilliant journalist, and wrote a novel: _Friends in Bohemia_, and _Parliamentary Portraits_.

=WHYTE-MELVILLE, Major G. J.= (1821-1878). Had Irish connections and wrote many novels. Killed in hunting field—a death he had often described.

⸺ SATANELLA: A story of Punchestown. Pp. 307. (_Chapman and Hall_). 1873. 2_s._ other eds.

A racy story of sportsmen and soldiers. Opens in Ireland and scene shifts to London. The talk of grooms and trainers fairly well done. The fate of the heroine and the famous black mare, both called “Satanella,” is tragic.

=WILDE, Lady; “Speranza.”= Well known as a poet of the NATION, one of the most passionately patriotic of them all. B. in Wexford, 1826. D. in London, 1896.

⸺ ANCIENT LEGENDS OF IRELAND. Pp. 350. (_Ward & Downey_). 6_s._ 1888.

A collection of fairy stories, legends, descriptions of superstitious practices, medicals cures and charms, robber stories, notes on holy wells, &c., taken down from the peasantry, some in Gaelic, some in English. The legends, &c., are preceded by a learned essay on the origin and history of legend, and the book concludes with chapters on Irish art and ethnology and a lecture by Sir W. Wilde on the ancient races of Ireland. Contains a vast amount of matter useful to the folk-lorist, to the general reader, and even to the historian. The stories are rather pathetic and tender than humorous. Wrote also _Ancient Cures, Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland_, _Driftwood from Scandinavia_, _The American Irish_, &c.

=WILLIAMS, Charles.= B. Coleraine, 1838. D. London, 1904. The celebrated war correspondent of the DAILY CHRONICLE and STANDARD; first editor of EVENING NEWS, and founder of the Press Club. Wrote a _Life of Sir Evelyn Wood_.

⸺ JOHN THADDEUS MACKAY. Pp. 327. (_Burleigh_). (1889). 6_s._

In this clever novel the Author draws upon his recollections of early days in Ulster. The hero, “a stickit minister,” goes out to India in company with a “Howley” father, so named after a famous Archbishop of Canterbury, and both learn charity and brotherly love and see the narrowness of their own views through mixing with the natives. Many real personages are introduced under thinly disguised cognomens, thus “Rev. Thomas Trifle” is the late Rev. Thomas Toye, of Belfast.

=WILLS, William Gorman.= B. Kilkenny, 1828. D. London, 1891. Poet, Painter, Dramatist, and Novelist. Ed. T.C.D. Son of Rev. James Wills, also a prolific writer. Wills is better known as a dramatist, having written no fewer than thirty-three plays, amongst the finest of them being _Charles I._, _Olivia_, and _Faust_. Amongst his other novels are _Life’s Foreshadowings_, which first appeared as a serial in IRISH METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE, 1857-8; _The Wife’s Evidence_, founded on an Irish tragedy, where a man named McLaughlin was hanged for a murder committed by his mother; _Old Times_, _Notice to Quit_, _David Chantry_, besides a long poem, _Melchior_.

⸺ THE LOVE THAT KILLS. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). 1867.

“It [the above novel] drew striking pictures of the relations between landlord and tenant in Ireland, the Irish Famine, and the Rebellion of 1848: and it showed a warm glow of sympathy with the Irish peasantry, which no one would have suspected in a man apparently so wholly out of touch with politics.” [From “Life of W. G. Wills” by Freeman Wills. LONDON. 1898].

=WILMOT-BUXTON, E. M.=

⸺ BRITAIN LONG AGO: Stories from Old English and Celtic Sources. (_Harrap_: _Told through the Ages_ series).

⸺ OLD CELTIC TALES. Pp. 128, large clear type. (_Harrap_). 6_d._ 1910.

One of Harrap’s “All-Time Tales,” a series of supplementary readers for young children. The first tale is “The Children of Lir,” told in three-and-a-half pages. The rest are from the Mabinogion and other Welsh sources. Six or seven moderately good full page ill. (one col.). Neat cover. Remarkably cheap.

=WINGFIELD, Hon. Lewis Strange.= B. 1842. Son of 6th Lord Powerscourt. Ed. Eton and Bonn. Lived a very strange life, trying as experiments various rôles—actor, nigger minstrel, attendant in a mad-house, traveller in Algeria and China, painter, &c., &c. Wrote many novels and books of travel. D. 1891.

⸺ MY LORDS OF STROGUE. Three Vols. (_Bentley_). 1879.

“A Chronicle of Ireland from the Convention to the Union.” History and romance curiously intermingled, _e.g._, Robert Emmet’s Insurrection is purposely ante-dated by two years and a half. “The prominence given to such unpleasant personages as Mrs. Gillin makes the book unsuitable at least for the lending libraries of convents.”—(I.M.). The Author is fair-minded and not anti-national.

=WOODS, Margaret L.= B. Rugby, 1856. Dau. of late Dr. Bradley, Dean of Westminster. Ed. at home and at Leamington. Lives in London. Author of about a dozen volumes—novels, poems, and plays.

⸺ ESTHER VANHOMRIGH. Pp. 347. (_Murray_). 1891.

A clever and interesting psychological study of the relations between Swift and the two Esthers, Johnson and Vanhomrigh, the latter being the chief centre of interest. The scene: partly in Ireland, partly in England. The political events and questions of the time are scarcely touched upon, but the atmosphere, language, and costume of the time have evidently been carefully studied, and are vividly reproduced. Swift’s relations to these two women are represented in a convincing and sympathetic manner. There is nothing objectionable in the tone of the book.

⸺ THE KING’S REVOKE. Pp. 334. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _Dutton_). 1.50. Second impression. 1905.

The strange adventures of Patrick Dillon, an officer in the Spanish army, in the course of his attempt to set free Ferdinand VII. of Spain, imprisoned in France by Napoleon I. Its pictures of Catholic life in Spain are not always flattering, though doubtless not intentionally offensive.

=[WRIGHT, E. H.].=

⸺ ANDRÉ BESNARD. (CORK). 1889.

A tale of Old Cork, giving good descriptions of its people, buildings, &c. Period: that preceding the times of the Volunteers. A tale of courtship and adventure. One of the chief characters is Paul Jones, the celebrated American admiral. Published under pen-name “G. O’C.”

=WRIGHT, John, A.M.=

⸺ THE LAST OF THE CORBES: or, The MacMahon’s Country. Pp. 342. (_Macrone_). 1835.

Described on title-p. as “a legend connected with Irish history in 1641.” A plain tale, devoid of description, excitement, and historical “atmosphere,” chiefly concerned with a family named Willoughby. The writer is anti-Puritan but not pro-Irish. He mentions the deed of the traitor O’Connolly with approval, and dwells much on the excesses of the insurgents. Heber Macmahon (afterwards Bishop of Clogher), Sir Phelim O’Neill, and Roger Moore are introduced into the story. The writer was rector of Killeevan, Co. Monaghan.

=WRIGHT, R. H.=

⸺ A PLAIN MAN’S TALE. Pp. 192. (BELFAST: _McCaw, Stevenson & Orr_). 1904.

Adventures of a young Yorkshireman who, about the ’98 period, sails for Ireland and lands at Island Magee, in Antrim. Exciting episodes—love-making, smuggling, &c. Not concerned with the rising. For boys.

⸺ THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF MY FRIEND PATRICK DEMPSEY. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ 1910.

=WYNDHAM, Eleanor.=

⸺ THE WINE IN THE CUP. Pp. 380. (_Werner Laurie_). 6_s._ 1909.

## Scene laid in Rathlin Island, but the book cannot be said to

depict the life of the place with fidelity to real conditions. By same Author: _The Lily and the Devil_, 1908.

=WYNNE, Florence.=

⸺ THE KING’S COMING. Pp. 489. (_Skeffington_). 6_s._ 1904.

The king is “Edward VII. of England and I. of Ireland” (_sic_). Nearly half the book is composed of minute descriptions of his reception in various parts of Ireland. The rest is chiefly made up of long discussions (mostly by the hero and heroine) on religion, divorce, loyalty, Irish history, the position of the Church of Ireland, and landlords. The Author seems to be strongly “loyal,” a High-Church member of the C. of I., an ardent Home-Ruler, and a Gaelic enthusiast. But no bias is displayed _against_ any class or creed, though the Author does not seem partial to the landlord class, unpleasant specimens of whom are introduced. Written with obvious sincerity and earnestness.

=“WYNNE, May”; Miss N. W. Knowles.= Writes much for magazines, and has published some twenty books. Has much sympathy with Ireland and the Irish. Resides in Kent.

⸺ LET ERIN REMEMBER. Pp. 312. (_Greening_). 6_s._ 1908.

A sensational romance of the Norman invasion of Ireland, very similar in kind to the Author’s _For Church and Chieftain_, _q.v._ The Irish are depicted as a wild, passionate people, torn by murderous feuds, led by selfish, unscrupulous chieftains. The Normans, who appear in the story, Strongbow in

## particular, are represented as gentle and courteous knights.

⸺ FOR CHURCH AND CHIEFTAIN. Pp. 314. (_Mills & Boon_). 6_s._ 1909.

A romance of the thrilling and popular type. Full of wonderful coincidences and the still more wonderful escapes of the heroes from the clutches of their enemies. The story is little concerned with historical events and persons. The Earl of Desmond, Archbishop O’Hurley, Dowdall, and Zouch are introduced occasionally. The tone is healthy, the standpoint Irish and Catholic.

⸺ FOR CHARLES THE ROVER. Pp. 324. (_Greening_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _Fenno_). 1.50. Third ed., 1909.

Scene: Cork city, and the neighbourhood of Kenmare. Adventures of Hugh Graham, a Scotchman, in recruiting for the Irish Brigade in company with Morty Oge O’Sullivan, a gay, reckless, debonnair type of Irish chieftain. On the other side are the brainless Whig fop, Sir Henry Morton, and O’Callaghan, a spy in King George’s pay. The unfortunate love-story of O’Callaghan’s beautiful sister and the happier love of the sister of Morty are interwoven with the narrative. The Author’s sympathies are Irish and Jacobite.

=WYNNE, George Robert, D.D.= Archdeacon of Aghadoe, Rector of St. Michael’s, Limerick, and Canon of St. Patrick’s, Dublin. Author of a number of religious works: _The Light of the City_, _Spiritual Life in its Advancing Stages_, &c.

⸺ NOT PEACE BUT A SWORD. Pp. 190. (_R.T.S._). _n.d._ (1897).

Relates how Miss Sybil Marchant, a young English lady, succeeded in converting to Protestantism some members of a poor family of Joyces in Connemara. Is concerned chiefly with the trials of the new converts at the hands of friends and the clergy. Tone not bitter towards Catholicism, which however, is regarded from the Low Church, strongly Protestant, standpoint. The story is pleasantly told.

⸺ BALLINVALLEY; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Pp. 244. (_S.P.C.K._). 2_s._ 6_d._ Two illustr. by J. Nash. 1898.

Scene: Wicklow, whose scenery is well described. Rebellion seen from Protestant and loyalist standpoint. Rebels appear as recklessly brave savages. Battles of New Ross and Hacketstown described. Characters well brought out. Some aspects of the life of the times described, notably stage-coach travelling and illicit distilling. Brogue not well reproduced. Based, says the Pref., chiefly on Lecky, but also on Maxwell, Musgrave, and Hay. There is a good deal about gold-mining in Co. Wicklow.

=YEATS, William Butler.= B. 1865, at Sandymount, Co. Dublin. Son of J. B. Yeats, R.H.A., a distinguished Irish artist. Ed. Godolphin School, Hammersmith, and Erasmus Smith School, Dublin. Went to London in 1888, and there, in 1889, publ. his first volume of verse. Since then many others have appeared, and he is now known as one of the foremost poets of the day, perhaps the only Irish poet whose name is familiar to students of European literature outside of Ireland, and it is true to say with Mrs. Hinkson in her _Reminiscences_, “All the world that cares about literature knows of his work to-day.” He was for a number of years

## actively interested in spiritism and magic, and there is more of this

than of genuine folk-lore in his writings. What there is of folklore in them seems to have been gleaned during visits to his mother’s people in Sligo. His prose is that of a poet full of changing colour and strange rhythm and vague suggestion.

⸺ FAIRY AND FOLK-TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY. Pp. 326. (_W. Scott_). 3_s._ 6_d._ and 1_s._ [1888]; often republ.

Introd. and notes by Ed. The Tales, sixty-four in number, are selected from previously published collections (Croker, Lover, Kennedy, Wilde, &c.), including several examples of poetry about the fairies. They are classed under these heads:—The Trooping Fairies, The Solitary Fairies, Ghosts, Witches, Tir na-n-óg, Saints and Priests, The Devil, Giants, &c. Each class is introduced by some general remarks. There is nothing objectionable but it is hardly a book for children. The weird and grotesque element largely predominates.

⸺ IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK-TALES. Twelve full page illustr. by James Torrance. (_W. Scott_). 3_s._ 6_d._

⸺ JOHN SHERMAN, and DHOYA. Pp. 195. (_Fisher Unwin_). 1891.

_John Sherman_ is not wild and fantastic like _The Secret Rose_, &c., but a pleasant narrative dealing with life in Ballah (Sligo), the scene at times shifting to London. The descriptions both of scenery and character are full of quaint little touches of very subtle observation. The style is remarkable for a dainty simplicity, lit up now and then by a striking thought or a brilliant aphorism. _Dhoya_ (last 25 pp.) is a wild Celtic phantasy.—(I.M.). Published under the pen-name of “Ganconagh.”

⸺ IRISH FAIRY TALES. Ed. with Introd. by. Pp. 236. 16mo. (_Fisher Unwin_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by J. B. Yeats. Third impress. 1892.

A dainty little volume, very popular with children. None of the stories included in it are to be found in the same Author’s _Irish Fairy and Folk-tales_.—(_W. Scott_).

⸺ THE SECRET ROSE: Irish Folk-lore. Illustr. by J. B. Yeats. Pp. 265. (_Maunsel_). 3_s._ 1898. (N.Y.: _Dodd & Mead_). 2.00.

Wild, formless tales, altogether from the land of dreams, told with the Author’s accustomed magic of word and expression, but to the ordinary reader well-nigh meaningless. In one of these tales some monks solemnly crucify a wandering gleeman because he had dared complain of the filthy food and lodging which they had given him. This tale may fairly be taken as typical of much that is in the book.

⸺ THE CELTIC TWILIGHT. Pp. 235. (_A. H. Bullen_). 3_s._ [1893]. New ed., enlarged, 1902. (N.Y.: _Macmillan_). 1.50.

Disconnected fragments of dim beliefs in a supernatural world of fairies, ghosts, and devils, still surviving among the peasantry. Told in a style often beautiful, but vague and elusive, by a latter-day “pagan,” who would fain share these beliefs himself. The talk of half-crazy peasants, the Author tells us, is set down as he heard it. To the ordinary reader the book cannot but seem full of puerilities. The peasants of whom the Author speaks are chiefly those of North-Eastern Sligo.

⸺ STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN: The Secret Rose: Rosa Alchemica. Pp. 228. (_Bullen_). 6_s._ net. 1913.

The first ed., 1897, had the general title _The Secret Rose_, _q.v._ In the present volume the revised ed., which appeared in Mr. Yeats’s collected works, 1908, has been followed.

=YOUNG, Ella.= B. 1867, at Fenagh, Co. Antrim. Is a graduate of the Royal, now the National, University. Is chiefly interested in the old tales of the Irish MS. collections and in folk-lore gathered directly from the people. Has published a volume of poems and many articles and tales in the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, THE IRISH REVIEW, IRISH YEAR BOOK, &c., and in American and New Zealand periodicals. Her writings are full of the influence of the Celtic Revival, in which movement she numbers many friends.

⸺ THE COMING OF LUGH. (_Maunsel_). 6_d._ net. 1909.

“A Celtic Wonder-tale Retold” for the young. A dainty little volume in which is prettily told the story of Lugh Lamh Fada’s sojourn in Tir-na-nOg and his return to Erin with the Sword of Light to drive out the Fomorians. The illustrations by Madame Gonne-MacBride are very well done.—(_Press Notice_).

⸺ CELTIC WONDER TALES. Pp. 202. (_Maunsel_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by Maud Gonne. 1910.

Tales of the ancient days of De Danaan gods and heroes—of Angus and Midyir and Lugh and the Gobhaun Saor. Told in rhythmic and musical language and with much beauty of expression, but most of the tales are altered quite out of their antique and primitive form by a strong flavour of modern mysticism and symbolism of the school of Yeats and A. E. “Conary Mor,” the finest (we think) of the tales, is perhaps freest from this. The first two or three are most influenced by it. Tales like “A Good Action,” “The Sheepskin,” strike a different and, as it seems to us, a discordant note, viz., broadly comical episodes, in which the actors are gods. Includes The Children of Lir and the Children of Turann (under title “The Eric Fine of Lugh”), and the Coming of Lugh. Original and artistic Celtic cover design, head-pieces, and tail-pieces. Four coloured illustr. The first two are mystic and symbolic. Most Catholics would consider them very much out of place here. The book is beautifully produced.

APPENDIX A.

SOME USEFUL WORKS OF REFERENCE.

=1. IRISH LITERATURE.= Ten Vols. 4126 pp., exclusive of introductory essays, which average over 20 pp.

Originally published by John D. Morris & Co. Afterwards taken over by the De Bower Elliot Co., Chicago, and brought out in 1904.

Edited by Justin M’Carthy, M.P., with the help of an advisory committee, including Stephen Gwynn, M.P., Lady Gregory, Standish O’Grady, D. J. O’Donoghue, Douglas Hyde, LL.D., J. E. Redmond, M.P., G. W. Russell (“A. E.”), J. J. Roche, LL.D., of the BOSTON PILOT, Prof. W. P. Trent, of Columbia University, Prof. F. N. Robinson, of Harvard, H. S. Pancoast, and W. P. Ryan; with Charles Welsh as Managing Director.

_Scope and Object_: To give a comprehensive, if rapid, view of the whole development of Irish Literature from its earliest days. In the words of the Editor, it is “an illustrated catalog of Ireland’s literary contributions to mankind’s intellectual store.”

_The Choice of Extracts_ is determined by two canons: literary value and human interest. The Library gives examples of “all that is best, brightest, most attractive, readable, and amusing,” in the writings of Irish authors. There is no dry-as-dust. The extracts comprise mythology, legend, folklore, poems, songs, street-ballads, essays, oratory, history, science, memoirs, fiction, travel, drama, wit, and humour. The vast majority are chosen as being specially expressive of Irish nationality. Choice is made both from the Gaelic and the Anglo-Irish literatures, but the ancient Gaelic literature is given solely in translation. A volume (the tenth) is given to _modern_ Gaelic literature, the Irish text and English translation being given on opposite pages. This volume also contains brief biographies of ancient Gaelic authors. The extracts are never short and scrappy, but nearly always complete in themselves.

_Other Special Features_: Three hundred and fifty Irish authors are represented by extracts. Of these one hundred and twenty are contemporaries, the great modern intellectual revival being thus very fully represented.

The extracts are given under the name of the authors, and these names are arranged alphabetically, beginning in Vol. I. with Mrs. Alexander, and ending with W. B. Yeats in Vol. IX.

To the extracts from each author there is prefixed a biographical notice, including, in many cases, a literary appreciation by a competent authority, and a fairly full bibliography.

Each volume contains an article, by a distinguished writer, on some special department of Irish literature. Thus, the Editor-in-Chief gives a general survey of the whole subject. W. B. Yeats writes on Irish Poetry, Douglas Hyde on Early Irish Literature, Dr. Sigerson on Ireland’s Influence on European Literature, Maurice Francis Egan on Irish Novels, Charles Welsh on Fairy and Folk Tales, J. F. Taylor, K.C., on Irish Oratory, Stephen Gwynn on the Irish Theatre, &c.

_Index_ of authors, books quoted from, titles and subjects dealt with—exceptionally full and valuable (over 80 pp.).

_Publisher’s Work_: 1. Illustrations, over 100 (several in colour), consisting of facsimiles of ancient Irish MSS., and of ancient prints and street-ballads, portraits of Irish authors, views of places, objects, scenery and incidents of Irish interest.

2. Letterpress—large and clear type.

3. Binding—cloth, and half-morocco.

4. Price—has varied a good deal since first publication.

=2. THE CABINET OF IRISH LITERATURE.= Four Vols. Super royal 8vo. Pp. 311 + 324 + 346 + 369. (_Gresham Publishing Co._). 8_s._ 6_d._ each. Illustrations in black and white by J. H. BACON, C. M. SHELDON, W. RAINEY, &c., and portraits. 1903.

_Editors_: Originally planned by C. A. Read, who collected matter for the first three volumes of the original edition. Completed and edited by T. P. O’Connor, M.P. New edition brought out by Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson.

_New edition_: The original edition (1879) was published by Blackie. The new edition contains about the same quantity of matter, but large portions of the original edition have been omitted to make room for new matter, which occupies the whole of the fourth volume and a large part of the third. A new Introduction (pp. xi.-xxxiv.) has been prefixed. It is a general survey of Irish literature.

_Scope, arrangement, &c._: The authors are arranged chronologically. There is first a sketch (full and carefully done) of each author’s life and works; then follow extracts, as a rule very short, from his works. The principle of selection is to give such extracts as would best illustrate the author’s style, to avoid anything hackneyed, and “anything that would offend the taste of any class or creed.”

In the original edition there was, perhaps inevitably, little of Irish Ireland, still less of Gaelic Ireland. That has been to a certain extent remedied in the new edition. But the old edition had the advantage of containing a mass of information about little known writers and of extracts from curious and rare books.

=3. BAKER, Ernest A., M.A., D.Lit., F.L.A.=

⸺ A GUIDE TO THE BEST FICTION IN ENGLISH. Sq. 4to. Pp. 813. (_Routledge_). 21_s._ New ed., enlarged and thoroughly revised. [1902, _Sonnenschein_]. 1913.

This new edition is a superb work, deserving the title of an Encyclopedia of English Fiction. It gives information in descriptive notes of between 7,000 and 8,000 works of fiction, including particulars of publishers (both in England and in U.S.A.), prices, and date of publication. It comprises every description of novel, translations of important continental and even non-European fiction, and of early stories and sagas from the Norse and from Celtic languages. The Guide is selective—not everything in the novel line is included—but it is most comprehensive. The _arrangement_ is first by nationalities (English, American, Celtic, pp. 517-521, French, &c.). Each of these divisions is subdivided according to the century in which the book was published, and the entries under the various centuries are arranged alphabetically according to names of authors. The _Index_, which runs to 170 pp., gives full reference to Authors, Titles, and Subjects. Every specific subject illustrated in the works is indexed with extraordinary accuracy and completeness.

4. ⸺ A GUIDE TO HISTORICAL FICTION. Pp. xii. + 566. 1914.

A new ed. of the Author’s _History in Fiction_; a companion to the preceding and uniform with it in size, publisher, and price. As in the case of the former work, full bibliographical particulars and descriptive notes are given. The main _arrangement_ is according to countries. Under each country it is chronological. The Index (140 pp.) gives information as full as in the preceding work. The standard of selection is “the extent to which a story illustrates any given period of history.”—(_Pref._). Ireland is not dealt with separately, the history of the British Isles being taken as a whole.

5. ⸺ HISTORY IN FICTION. Two Vols. 16mo. Pp. 228 + 253. (Routledge). 2_s._ 6_d._ each. _n.d._ (1906).

“A kind of dictionary of historical romance from the earliest sagas to the latest historical novel.”—(_Pref._). Aims to include “every good work of prose fiction dealing with past times.”—(_Pref._). Full bibliographical particulars (date, price, publisher) are given about each book. In most cases a short descriptive note is added. The entries average seven on a page. The titles are arranged first in order of countries. Thus in Vol. I., pp. 1-128 deal with English History; pp. 129-154, with Scotch; pp. 155-167, with Irish, and so on. Vol. II., pp. 1-56, U.S.A.; pp. 61-117, France; pp. 118-131, Germany, and so on. The books dealing with the history of each particular country are arranged in order of date. A copious Author, Title, and Subject Index is appended to each volume. We retain the note on this book as, though now in a sense out of date, it is still in print, and its price makes it more generally available than is the new edition.

=6. NIELD, Jonathan.=

⸺ A GUIDE TO THE BEST HISTORICAL NOVELS AND TALES. Pott 4to. Pp. xviii. + 522. (_Elkin Mathews_). 8_s._ nett. [1902, pp. viii. + 124]. Fourth ed., rev. and enlarged. 1911.

Introd. pp. 16 defends historical fiction. The work is in two parts—the main body as it appeared in the third ed., and a supplement nearly as large. Each is separately indexed. Each part is arranged in chronological order. The titles of the books, the author and publisher, the subject are arranged in three vertical columns. Prices are not given. On pp. 119 _sq._ there is a supplementary list of noteworthy semi-historical novels. On p. 129 a list of fifty representative historical novels. The Author appends suggested courses of juvenile reading and a valuable _Bibliogr._ The _Indexes_ are (1) Author and title, (2) Title only. The former give the dates of publication of the books. The number of novels noted is about 3,000. Ireland is, of course, not dealt with separately, as the histories of the various countries are mingled in one chronological list.

=7. BUCKLEY, J. A., M.A., and W. T. WILLIAMS, B.A.=

⸺ A GUIDE TO BRITISH HISTORICAL FICTION. Pp. 182. (_Harrap_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1912.

Intended for teachers of Secondary and Elementary schools. Chronological order with author- and title-indexes. Neatly arranged for ready reference. Full notes on each novel. A good many Irish novels are included.

=8. KRANS, Horatio Sheafe.=

⸺ IRISH LIFE IN IRISH FICTION. Pp. 338. (N.Y.: _Macmillan Co._). 6_s._ 6_d._ net. 1903.

The Author is a Professor of Columbia University.

_Scope of work_: A survey and criticism of the leading Irish novelists of the first half of the nineteenth century in so far as give us a picture of the national life and character.

_Contents_: Chap. i. A general survey of Irish society during the period treated by the novelists, _e.g._, 1782-1850, based on O’Neill Daunt’s _Eighty-five Years of Irish History_, Justin M’Carthy’s _Outline_, J. E. Walshe’s _Ireland Sixty Years Ago_, Barrington’s Reminiscences, &c. Chap. ii. The novelists of the Gentry. Chap. iii. The novelists of the Peasantry. Chap. iv. Types met with in the novels and typical incidents taken from them. Chap. v. Literary estimate. Then there is a “list of the more important stories and novels of Irish life by Irish writers whose literary activity began before 1850.” Throughout copious quotations are made.

_Treatment_: Wholly free from bias. Marked by broad-minded, judicial spirit, thorough interest in and sympathy with the subject, wide knowledge, and a remarkable gift of literary characterization. On the whole a work which I can scarcely praise too highly.

=9.= The following book may be mentioned as possibly useful to reviewers, teachers, and others:—

=WHITCOMB, Selden L.=

⸺ THE STUDY OF A NOVEL. (_Heath_). 1906.

It is “the result of practical experience in teaching the novel, and its aim is primarily pedagogical.”—(_Pref._). Contents:—External Structure, Consecutive Structure, Plot, The Settings, The Dramatis Personæ, Characterization, Subject Matter, Style, Influence, Rhetoric, Æsthetics, Analysis.

10. THE IRISH BOOK-LOVER. Published by Salmond & Co. Monthly. 2_s._ 6_d._ per annum, post free.

This excellent little periodical, edited by Dr. J. S. Crone, Kensal Lodge, Kensal Green, London, N.W., is entirely devoted to Irish books and their authors, and is the only publication of the kind. Beginning in August, 1909, and appearing monthly since then, its six volumes are a most valuable storehouse of Irish book lore of all kinds. As regards fiction, it reviews most of the Irish novels that appear, has many articles on Irish novelists past and present, and supplies a quarterly classified bibliography of current Irish literature, in which there is a section for fiction. The obligations of the present work towards it are very great.

APPENDIX B.

PUBLISHERS AND SERIES.

1. The Principal Irish Publishers:—

DUBLIN: MESSRS. BROWNE & NOLAN, Nassau Street. ” JAMES DUFFY & CO., Westmoreland Street. ” THE EDUCATIONAL CO. OF IRELAND, Talbot Street. ” M. H. GILL & CO., O’Connell Street. ” HODGES & FIGGIS, Grafton Street. ” MAUNSEL & CO., Ltd., 96 Middle Abbey Street. ” SEALY, BRYERS & WALKER, Middle Abbey Street. ” ALEX. THOM & CO., Middle Abbey Street. BELFAST: ERSKINE MAYNE. MCCAW, STEVENSON & ORR. CORK: GUY & CO.

NOTE.—None of these publishers, with the exception of Messrs. Maunsel, has a London house. The London address of Messrs. Maunsel is 40 Museum Street, W.C.

=2. IRISH NATIONAL TALES AND ROMANCES.= Nineteen Vols. (_Colburn_). 1833.

By LADY MORGAN (_O’Briens and O’Flahertys_), J. BANIM (_The Anglo-Irish_), E. E. CROWE (_Yesterday in Ireland_), THOMAS COLLEY GRATTAN (_Tales of Travel_), &c. This series is occasionally to be met with on sale at second hand.

=3. DOWNEY & CO.’S IRISH NOVELISTS’ LIBRARY.= EDMUND DOWNEY, General Editor. Biographical sketch prefixed to each volume, and portrait of Author. Price, 2_s._ 6_d._, cloth.

Included:—

O’DONNEL. By LADY MORGAN. Biography by Mrs. Cashel Hoey.

ORMOND. By MARIA EDGEWORTH. Biography by Mrs. Cashel Hoey.

FARDOROUGHA THE MISER. By W. CARLETON. Biography by D. J. O’Donoghue.

THE EPICUREAN. By THOMAS MOORE. Biography by E. Downey.

RORY O’MORE. By SAMUEL LOVER. Biography by Mrs. Cashel Hoey.

THE COLLEGIANS. By GERALD GRIFFIN. Biography by E. Downey.

THE O’DONOGHUE. By CHARLES LEVER. Biography by E. Downey.

TORLOGH O’BRIEN. By J. SHERIDAN LEFANU. Biography by E. Downey.

Downey & Co. issued, 1902, paper-covered, well printed, on good paper, a Sixpenny Library of Novels, many of which were by Irish authors such as Lever, Banim, Lady Morgan, Lover, and Carleton. Irish novels were included in several other series published by this firm.

=4. CHEAP POPULAR FICTION= published by CAMERON & FERGUSON, of Glasgow. The publications of this firm were taken over by MESSRS. WASHBOURNE, who keep in print such of them as were of any value.

THE GREEN AND THE RED; or, Historical Tales and Legends of Ireland. Picture boards, 1_s._

GERALD AND AUGUSTA; or, the Irish Aristocracy: A Novel, 1_s._

THE MISTLETOE AND THE SHAMROCK: a National Tale. 1_s._

BILLY BLUFF AND THE SQUIRE: a Picture of Ulster in 1796. 6_d._

THE IRISH GIRL; or, the True Love and the False. 6_d._

THE KNIGHTS OF THE PALE; or, Ireland 400 Years Ago. 256 pp. 6_d._

=5. SEALY, BRYERS & WALKER’S SIXPENNY LIBRARY OF FICTION.=

OWEN DONOVAN, FENIAN. By GRAVES O’MARA. A Tale of the ’67 Rising.

CAPTAIN HARRY. By J. H. LEPPER. A Tale of the Royalist Wars.

A SOWER OF THE WIND. By CAHIR HEALY. A Tale of the Land League.

OLAF THE DANE. By JOHN DENVIR. A Story of Donegal.

THE GAELS OF MOONDHARRIG. By REV. J. DOLLARD. A Tale of the Famous Kilkenny Hurlers.

FRANK MAXWELL. By J. H. LEPPER. A Royalist Tale of 1641.

PAUL FARQUHAR’S LEGACY. By J. G. ROWE. A Thrilling Tale of Mining Life in South Africa.

ONLY A LASS. By RUBY M. DUGGAN. A Tale of Girl School Life.

THE STRIKE. By T. J. ROONEY. A Tale of the Dublin Liberties.

BULLY HAYES, BLACKBIRDER. By J. G. ROWE. An Adventure Tale of the South Seas.

THE ENCHANTED PORTAL. By MARY LOWRY. A Tale of the Giant’s Causeway.

STORMY HALL. By M. L. THOMPSON. A Thrilling Tale of Adventure.

TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT. By ROBERT CROMIE. A Romance of the Norwegian Fjords.

BY THE STREAM OF KILMEEN. By SEAMAS O’KELLY. Exquisite Sketches of Irish Life.

THE MACHINATIONS OF CISSY. By MRS. PIERRE PATTISON. A Tale of a Sister’s Jealousy.

WHEN STRONG WILLS CLASH. By ANNIE COLLINS. A Tale of Love and Pride.

THE HUMOURS OF A BLUE DEVIL IN THE ISLE OF SAINTS. By ALAN WARRENER. A Tale of the Love Escapades of a certain Captain.

THE HONOUR OF THE DESBOROUGHS. By RITA RICHMOND. Concerns the Love Affairs of Honor Desborough, and a fight for an Estate.

THE LUCK OF THE KAVANAGHS. By C. J. HAMILTON. Relates the extraordinary Adventures of an Emigrant Irish Boy.

THE DOCTOR’S LOCUM-TENENS. By LIZZIE C. READ.

LADY GREVILLE’S ERROR. By MRS. WATT.

SWEET NELLIE O’FLAHERTY. By T. A. BREWSTER.

=6. “IRELAND’S OWN” LIBRARY.=

This excellent popular periodical, the circulation of which in England and abroad as well as in Ireland is very considerable, is bringing out cheap reprints of stories and other features that have appeared in its pages. The following is a list of the Library to date:—

RED RAPPAREE. By DESMOND LOUGH.

BARNEY THE BOYO. By L. A. FINN.

THE BLACK WING. By DESMOND LOUGH.

TRACKED. By V. O’D. POWER.

IRELAND’S OWN SONG BOOK.

THE LEAGUE OF THE RING and TORN APART. By MORROUGH O’BRIEN.

Each price 6_d._ Address:—“THE PEOPLE” PRINTING AND PUBLISHING WORKS, Wexford; or, 11 Sackville Place, Dublin.

=7. DUFFY’S POPULAR LITERATURE.= Messrs. DUFFY publish and keep in print very cheap editions of the standard Irish novelists.

(1) The following by Carleton: _The Black Baronet_, _The Evil Eye_, _Valentine M’Clutchey_, _Willy Reilly_, _Art Maguire_, _Paddy-go-Easy_, _The Poor Scholar_, _Traits and Stories_ (1_s._); _The Red Well_, _Rody the Rover_, _Redmond Count O’Hanlon_. (2) All Griffin’s works, at 2_s._ each. (3) All Kickham’s novels. (4) Banim’s _Boyne Water_ and _The Croppy_, at 2_s._ 6_d._ each. (5) Many stories by Lever, Mgr. O’Brien, Mrs. Sadlier, &c., noticed in the body of this work.

Besides these, Messrs. Duffy issue seven or eight series of popular fiction. The volumes of these series are neatly, in many cases tastefully, bound, and very cheap. Many, however, are old-fashioned in turn-out, and printed from old founts. The majority of the stories are moral and religious in tendency, but by no means all. The literary standard in some is not very high, but in many it is good. Of “Prize Library,” Series I. (42 titles), Mrs. Sadlier’s _Daughter of Tyrconnell_ is an example; of II. (20 titles), the same author’s _Willy Burke_; of III. (24 titles), Curtis’s _Rory of the Hills_, and Anon. _The Robber Chieftain_. Series IV. has 16 titles, 2_s._ 6_d._ each; V., 15 titles, at 3_s._; VI., 9 titles at 3_s._ 6_d._ There is also a “Popular Library” at 6_d._, “for the instruction of youth,” and a “Juvenile Library,” with 24 stories, at 1_d._ each.

=8. MESSRS. M. H. GILL & SONS.=

This firm (originally McGlashan, then McGlashan & Gill) has behind it a long history of publication, most of the books issued by it being Irish in subject. At present the catalogue of its publications contains various popular series or “libraries” at more or less uniform prices. None of these consist exclusively of fiction. The “Green Cloth Library” is one of them.

=9. THE CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY OF IRELAND (C.T.S.I.).=[15]

The main object of this Society is religious and moral propaganda, but it aims also at fostering among the people an interest in their country—its history, antiquities, ruins, scenery, &c. Cheap popular fiction is one of the chief vehicles of this propaganda, and it has published in the fifteen years of its existence—it was founded in 1899—upwards of a hundred penny booklets, besides the shilling series mentioned below. Nearly all these stories are Irish in subject. Most of them are distinctively Catholic in tone, and a number of them aim directly or indirectly at religious instruction. But there are a fairly considerable number which simply tell tales of ancient Ireland in pagan as well as in Christian times. The importance of the work of this Society may be gathered from the fact that since its start it has distributed over seven million copies of its publications. All that can be done here is to give a list of the stories published by the C.T.S.I., indicating the nature of the contents of some of them.

T. B. CRONIN.—THE COLLEEN FROM THE MOOR.

⸺ THE BOY FROM OVER THE HILL.

These are two stories of Kerry life, deservedly popular.

MARY MAHER.—THE IRISH EMIGRANT’S ORPHAN.

LADY GILBERT (ROSA MULHOLLAND).—A MOTHER OF EMIGRANTS.

NANO TOBIN.—NANCY DILLON’S CHOICE and FROM TEXAS TO INCHRUE.

A. CUNNINGHAM.—PASSAGE TICKETS.

Four emigration stories.

E. F. KELLY.—KEVIN O’CONNOR.

Religious persecutions in 17th cent. at home and in convict settlements.

ALICIA GOLDING.—ELLEN RYAN.

Land troubles.

PATRICIA DILLON.—IN THE WAKE OF THE ARMADA.

Home life of native Irish chiefs and their intercourse with continent, end of 16th century.

MARY T. MCKENNA.—MAUREEN DOHERTY: the Story of a Trinket.

ANNA M. MARTIN.—MAHON’S LEAP.

S. Sligo in ’98.

ALICE DEASE.—ON THE BROAD ROAD.

A Story of the White Slave Traffic.

K. M. GAUGHAN.—SHEELAH: the Story of a Mixed Marriage.

MYLES V. RONAN, C.C.—WOMAN’S INFLUENCE: a Dublin Hospital Romance.

⸺ THE HOUSE OF JULIANSTOWN; or, a Flight for the Faith.

Days of the Volunteers. Historically true.

M. SULLIVAN.—THE DESERTER AND OTHER STORIES.

Very nicely told.

MACDONAGH (MARY L.), _née_ BURROUGHS PARKER.—THREE TIPPERARY BOYS.

One of whom, a minister’s son, is converted and marries Delia.

LADY GILBERT.—AVOURNEEN.

A waif cast up by the sea on the island of Inishglas, and his life among the islanders.

⸺ THE GHOST IN THE RATH.

⸺ MRS. BLAKE’S NEXT OF KIN.

DELIA GLEESON.—WHERE THE TURF FIRES BURN.

Others by Lucy M. Curd, Nora F. Degidon, S. A. Turk, &c., and a series of thirteen stories entitled THE EMERALD LIBRARY.

For M. J. O’Mullane’s stories, see in the body of the book under his name.

=TEMPERANCE STORIES.=

A BATCH OF SACRIFICES. By Rev. FREDERICK C. KOLBE, D.D.

THE STRIKE; or, The Drunkard’s Fate.

THE BROKEN HEART and THE MISER’S DEATH.

DONAL’S EXTRAVAGANCE. By Rev. DAVID MCKEE, C.C.

REAPING THE WHIRLWIND. By MOLLY MALONE.

HELENA’S SON. By NORA F. DEGIDON.

THE CHILD OF HIS HEART. By MARY T. MCKENNA.

MIKE HANLON’S MOTHER-IN-LAW. By K. GAUGHAN.

MORE TEMPERANCE STORIES. By ALICE DEASE.

=THE IONA SERIES.= A new venture of the Irish Catholic Truth Society. Consists of 16mo volumes, prettily bound in cloth, with frontispiece. Price 1_s._

THE COMING OF THE KING. A Jacobite Romance. By ARTHUR SYNAN.

HIAWATHA’S BLACK ROBE. Father Marquette, S.J. By E. LEAHY.

PEGGY THE MILLIONAIRE. By MARY COSTELLO.

EARL OR CHIEFTAIN? The Romance of Hugh O’Neill. By PATRICIA DILLON.

ISLE OF COLUMBCILLE. A Pilgrimage and a Sketch. By SHANE LESLIE.

THE GOLDEN LAD. A Story of Child Life. By MOLLY MALONE.

A LIFE’S AMBITION. Ven. Philippine Duchesne. By M. T. KELLY.

THE MAKING OF JIM O’NEILL. A Story of Seminary Life. By M. J. F.

NICHOLAS CARDINAL WISEMAN. By REV. JOSEPH E. CANAVAN, S.J.

THE SORROW OF LYCADOON. By MRS. THOMAS CONCANNON, M.A.

THE EMPEROR MARCUS AURELIUS. A Study in Ideals. By JOHN C. JOY, S.J.

A GROUP OF NATION BUILDERS—O’DONOVAN, O’CURRY, PETRIE. By REV. P. M. MACSWEENEY, M.A.

[15] O’Connell Street, Dublin.

=10. THE CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY.=

Address, 69 Southwark Bridge Rd., London, S.E. This is the original Society, founded in 1884, on the model of which the Irish, Scottish, and Australian bodies were founded. It has on its lists a few Irish stories. Lady Gilbert has written a certain number for it, _e.g._, _Penal Days_, _Nellie_. Her sister Clara Mulholland has published through it a little shilling volume: _Some Stories_ (also in penny parts); Katharine Tynan another shilling volume: _The Land I love best_; Alice Dease: _Some Irish Stories_, 6_d._ (and in penny parts); and “M. E. Francis” has also some stories.

=11. MESSENGER OFFICE.=

The Office of the little periodical THE IRISH MESSENGER OF THE S. HEART, Gt. Denmark St., Dublin, publishes penny booklets of a kind similar to those of the Catholic Truth Societies. Here are some of the titles:—

JOE CALLINAN. (In its 20th thousand).

No. 18 BLANK ST. (85th thousand).

THE TRAIL OF THE TRAITOR. (35th thousand). A story of Cromwell’s sack of Wexford.

KATHLEEN’S PILGRIMAGE. (25th thousand). A tale of Lough Derg.

TEMPERANCE STORIES. By M. A. C. (15th thousand).

The fiction in the IRISH MESSENGER itself and in the MADONNA is almost always of an Irish complexion. The circulation of the former of these is over 170,000 a month.

=12. EVERY IRISHMAN’S LIBRARY.=

A new (Autumn, 1915) enterprise of THE TALBOT PRESS, 89 Talbot Street, Dublin. The aim is to bring out in a cheap (2_s._ 6_d._) but worthy form both well-known works by Irishmen about Ireland and new works. The Editors-in-chief are Mr. Alfred Percival Graves, Prof. William Magennis, and Dr. Douglas Hyde. It hopes to include every department of Irish literature—poetry, fiction, oratory, sport and travel, history, wit and humour, essays and belles lettres, politics, biography, art, music and the drama. Each book is in the hands of a competent editor, so that none of the books in the series are mere reprints. The volumes have been designed, printed, and bound (cloth, Celtic design in green and gold) in Ireland. The publication has been greatly interfered with by the war. The first six volumes, which are as follows, do not include a work of fiction, but Griffin’s “Collegians” and Carleton’s Stories will be in the next batch.

Now Ready:—

THOMAS DAVIS. Selections from his Prose and Poetry. Edited by T. W. ROLLESTON, M.A.

WILD SPORTS OF THE WEST. By W. H. MAXWELL. Edited by the EARL OF DUNRAVEN.

LEGENDS OF SAINTS AND SINNERS. From the Irish. Edited by DOUGLAS HYDE, LL.D.

HUMOURS OF IRISH LIFE. Edited by CHARLES L. GRAVES, M.A. (Oxon.).

IRISH ORATORS AND ORATORY. Edited by Professor T. M. KETTLE, National University of Ireland.

THE BOOK OF IRISH POETRY. Edited by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES, M.A.

=13. MAUNSEL & Co., Ltd.=

Has in course of publication two series of novels and stories by Irish writers, viz.:—

(1). A series at 1_s._, bound in red cloth, crown 8vo size, with excellent paper and printing. It includes the following books:—

THE NORTHERN IRON. By GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM.

BALLYGULLION. By LYNN DOYLE.

THE GLADE IN THE FOREST. By STEPHEN GWYNN.

THE PRISONER OF HIS WORD. By LOUIE BENNETT.

CAMBIA CARTY. By WILLIAM BUCKLEY.

(2). A series at 2_s._, crown 8vo., cloth; equal in get-up to the average 6_s._ novel. The following is a list of the books hitherto published in this series:—

MRS. MARTIN’S MAN. By ST. JOHN G. ERVINE.

THE BLIND SIDE OF THE HEART. By F. E. CRICHTON.

COUNTRYMEN ALL. By KATHARINE TYNAN.

THE ONE OUTSIDE. By MARY FITZPATRICK.

=14. AMERICAN PUBLISHERS OF IRISH BOOKS.=

A great many American publishers bring out books on Irish subjects: few specialize in this line. On the whole little new fiction of an Irish complexion is published in the States. On the other hand a large number of Irish tales and novels which have been allowed to go out of print in this country are still reprinted and sold on the “other side.” Many such books will be found in the catalogues of such firms as Benziger Bros., of New York; P. J. Kenedy, of the same city; Flynn, of Boston; John Murphy Co., of Baltimore; McVey, of Philadelphia, &c. J. S. Pratt, of 161 6th Ave., nr. 12th St., N.Y., publishes a catalogue containing Irish items exclusively.

APPENDIX C.

IRISH MAGAZINE FICTION.[16]

There is a wealth of Irish fiction buried in the volumes of long extinct Irish periodicals and others still existing. Most people will have pleasurable recollections of stories read by them in one or other of the magazines which they were accustomed to read in youth—recollections which are only occasionally confirmed on a second reading in after life. I can still recall with delight many stories of Irish and even of alien characters which appeared in THE SHAMROCK, YOUNG IRELAND, THE LAMP, and other periodicals—not to speak of the numerous tales, serial and otherwise, which were a feature of the weekly editions of the ordinary Irish newspapers. Perhaps in some future edition of “A Guide to Irish Fiction” it may be possible to appraise some of the more notable of these stories and their authors. Meanwhile, it is worth recalling that in the old DUBLIN AND LONDON MAGAZINE, 1825-7, there is much admirable Irish fiction, chiefly by Michael James Whitty and Denis Shine Lawlor. The same may be said, in a more restricted sense, of that in THE DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL, THE DUBLIN JOURNAL OF TEMPERANCE, SCIENCE, AND LITERATURE, THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL, THE IRISH PENNY MAGAZINE, and, above all, in THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, which in its forty odd years of existence added enormously to the general body of Irish literature. A good word must also be said for Duffy’s HIBERNIAN and FIRESIDE magazines, which carried on the work down to about the seventies. THE IRISH MONTHLY, most valuable of all in its services to the literature of the country, encouraged a host of clever novelists and sketch writers, though, as in the case of THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, much of its output has been gathered into volumes, there is still much to be gleaned. Much of the work already referred to is partly accessible in the libraries, but where is one to consult the stores of fiction—often charming and mostly interesting—which appeared first (and last) in the pages of THE SHAMROCK, YOUNG IRELAND, THE IRISH FIRESIDE, THE LAMP (especially during John F. O’Donnell’s editorship), THE IRISH EMERALD, and other more recent magazines? So far as I know, there are no complete sets of these in any library. But some of our best writers began their literary career by writing for these humble periodicals, and even authors who had arrived did not deem it beneath their dignity to contribute their maturer work. But it is a large question how much of this fiction is of permanent value. I have no doubt myself that a judicious collector could make many discoveries if an enterprising publisher could be found to give the results to the public. But perhaps that is not even worth discussing in these stormy days.

D. J. O’DONOGHUE.

[16] I have thought it best to insert Mr. O’Donoghue’s note as it stood, though my doing so involved certain repetitions in the following note.

IRISH FICTION IN PERIODICALS.[17]

I.—DEFUNCT PERIODICALS.

I should have liked to include in this work the fiction, at least the serial fiction, that lies buried in the back numbers of Irish periodicals. I was obliged to make up my mind, regretfully enough, that this was impossible. All that I have found practicable is to insert here a general note giving the names and dates, with occasional remarks, of some of the more noteworthy of Irish periodicals, omitting of course such as contain no fiction.

Of the eighteenth century literary periodicals, such as Droz’s LITERARY JOURNAL (1744-8) and Walker’s HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE (1771-1811), it is unnecessary to say much, as the little fiction they contain is not of a very Irish character. But in Watty Cox’s famous IRISH MAGAZINE, which began in 1807 and ran to 1815, there are excellent Irish stories. To THE DUBLIN AND LONDON MAGAZINE (1825-27) M. J. Whitty and Denis Shine Lawlor, both noteworthy writers, contributed Irish tales of a sympathetic and national character. Whitty collected his into a volume, which is noted in the body of this work. A serial about Robert Emmet and another entitled “The Orangeman” ran in this periodical. Bolster’s QUARTERLY (1826-31) and THE DUBLIN MONTHLY MAGAZINE (1830), afterwards revived in 1842-3 as THE CITIZEN OR DUBLIN MONTHLY MAGAZINE, call for no special comment though they contain a certain amount of fiction. The latter, for instance, had a story of 1641, “Lord Connor of Innisfallen,” and, in the 1842 revival, “Gerald Kirby, a tale of ’98.” Some of Carleton’s _Traits and Stories_ first saw the light in this magazine. THE DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL (1832-6), first edited by Philip Dixon Hardy, contains a large proportion of Carleton’s stories, and many others signed McC., S. W., J. H. K., E. W., &c. In fact, it is full of matter interesting from an Irish point of view.

Then there was THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL, THE IRISH PENNY MAGAZINE, and THE IRISH METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE, 1857 _sqq._ This last was not very Irish in tone; its eyes were upon the ends of the earth, but an occasional Irish story such as “Life’s Foreshadowings” is to be found in it.

Much was done for Irish periodical literature by the firm of James Duffy. Duffy’s IRISH CATHOLIC MAGAZINE, 1847 _sq._, contains much interesting Irish matter, but little fiction except a serial, “King Simnel and the Palesmen,” which, however, seems to have been dropped after the thirteenth chapter. Duffy’s HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE appeared in the early sixties. It had many of Carleton’s stories[18] and several serials, such as “Raymond de Burgh, or the Fortune of a Stepson, A Romance of the Exodus,” and “Winifred’s Fortune,” a story of Dublin in the days of Queen Anne.

Other ventures of Duffy’s were THE ILLUSTRATED DUBLIN JOURNAL (1862) and Duffy’s FIRESIDE MAGAZINE.

In the fifties came a periodical whose title seems a faint premonition of the Irish revival—THE CELT, 1857 _sq._ It had a curious series of articles on Ireland’s temptations, failings, and vices. There were sketches of the South of Ireland by Aymer Clington, and C. M. O’Keeffe’s “Knights of the Pale” ran in it as a serial.

The sixties were, as we have seen, catered for by some of Duffy’s ventures. In the middle of the seventies appeared THE ILLUSTRATED MONITOR, afterwards THE MONITOR, published by Dollard, a Catholic magazine which ran for about eight volumes. Vol. I. contains two serials, “The Moores of Moore’s Court,” by D. F. Hannigan, and “High Treason,” which is not of Irish interest. Other serials that ran in subsequent volumes were “Julia Marron, a tale of Irish peasant life,” by “Celt,” and “The False Witness; or, the martyr of Armagh,” by A. M. S.

In 1877 THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE reached its 89th volume and became THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, losing thereby its distinctively Irish character. In the forty odd years of its existence this magazine collected a great body of first-rate Irish literature.

Then there was YOUNG IRELAND, THE IRISH FIRESIDE, and THE LAMP (especially during the editorship of John F. O’Donnell). In these and others such some of the best of our Irish writers began their literary careers.

As we near our own times the number of periodicals of all kinds that have appeared and disappeared—most of them after a very brief career—becomes bewildering. But the fact that they have run their course within our own memory makes detailed reference to them the less necessary. It is not many years since THE IRISH PACKET closed its career, an excellent little popular periodical that was edited by Judge Bodkin. The Irish Literary movement produced several periodicals, for the most part perhaps somewhat exotic—DANA, SAMHAIN, BELTAINE, &c., &c. Their latest successor, and to our way of thinking much the best of them—THE IRISH REVIEW—is only just deceased. The Gaelic movement, too, has produced its periodicals, but naturally most, if not all, of the fiction they contain is in the national language. The two best of these, THE GAELIC JOURNAL and GADELICA, have most unhappily come to an end, the former after quite a considerable career, the latter after a short one.

I have said nothing of the provincial press, though there were excellent literary periodicals in Cork and Belfast,[19] nor of the weekly editions of the ordinary daily papers, which sometimes contain fiction of very good quality.

It would be impossible to give here even a bird’s-eye view of the fiction of the Irish-American press. I may, however, mention a very fine review, the GAEL, of New York, which reached its twenty-third and last volume in 1904. It has contributions from all our leading present day Irish writers.

[17] In the compilation of this short survey I am indebted for useful notes to Dr. J. S. Crone.

[18] _E.g._, “The Man with the Black Eye,” “The Rapparee,” and “The Double Prophecy.”

[19] Notably a periodical of fine national spirit which was run by Miss Alice Milligan and “Ethna Carbery,” THE SHAN VAN VOCHT (1896-1899).

II.—CURRENT PERIODICALS.

The IRISH MONTHLY may fairly, I think, claim mention in the first place for, to the best of my knowledge, its forty-three years constitute a life longer than that of any other still surviving Irish literary review.[20] In it, under the sympathetic guidance and the kind encouragement of Father Matthew Russell, its founder and for forty years its editor, many authors well known to-day began the making of their literary reputations. It contains many serials, not a few of which have since appeared in book form. “The Wild Birds of Killeevy” first ran in its pages.

THE IRISH ROSARY is in its nineteenth volume. It is one of the very few Irish periodicals that has succeeded in maintaining itself as a well illustrated magazine, and it has done so at the exceptionally low price of fourpence. Fiction forms a large proportion of its contents, which are never stodgy nor yet what is called goody-goody.

THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN is comparatively a new-comer, but already quite a number of volumes, including Fr. Fitzgerald’s two books (_q.v._), have been reprinted from its pages. Its tone is thoroughly Irish.

Then there are innumerable little periodicals which, unlike the three just mentioned, contain stories of an almost exclusively religious or moral character, such as the ANNALS OF ST. ANTONY, THE MESSENGER OF THE SACRED HEART, &c.

The excellent IRELAND’S OWN, a popular weekly on the lines of ANSWERS and TIT-BITS, deserves a word of mention. Its library of reprints is referred to elsewhere.

Besides these there are the weekly numbers of the daily papers already referred to and the periodicals devoted to Gaelic literature, a list of which will be found in the section of this Appendix, entitled Gaelic Epic and Romantic Literature.

In America many periodicals publish Irish fiction from time to time, but practically the only periodicals the contents of which are predominantly Irish are of an almost exclusively political character. THE CATHOLIC WORLD has published Irish serials, _e.g._, in the seventies, “The Home Rule Candidate: a tale of New Ireland,” by the author of “The Little Chapel at Monamullin.” Several of Canon Sheehan’s novels first appeared in American periodicals.

[20] THE DUBLIN REVIEW and THE IRISH ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD, which are older, not being, properly speaking, literary reviews.

APPENDIX D.

I.—IRISH HISTORICAL FICTION.

The following is a select list: it does not aim to include all the historical novels mentioned in the body of this work. But many novels that, as literature, are of very little value have been included in order to cover periods not otherwise dealt with in fiction.

DALARADIA. WILLIAM COLLINS. _c._ 500-1016. KINGS AND VIKINGS. LORCAN O’BYRNE. 500-507. THE LAST MONARCH OF TARA. T. J. ROONEY. _c._ 550-597. BRANAN THE PICT. MARY FRANCES OUTRAM. _c._ 560-615. COLUMBANUS THE CELT. WALTER T. LEAHY. _c._ 584-592. THE DRUIDESS. MRS. FLORENCE GAY. _c._ 650. THE LIFE AND ACTS OF EDMOND OF ERIN. MRS. F. PECK. THE INVASION. GERALD GRIFFIN. 888. KING AND VIKING. P. G. SMYTH. 935. A SEA QUEEN’S SAILING. C. W. WHISTLER. _c._ 1130-1151. THE KNIGHT OF THE CAVE. W. LORCAN O’BYRNE. 1152-1172. DEARFORGIL, THE PRINCESS OF BREFFNY. C. B. GIBSON.

The Invasion and After.

1169. THE FALCON KING. LORCAN O’BYRNE. 1167-1198. THE COURT OF RATH CROGHAN. MISS M. L. O’BYRNE. LET ERIN REMEMBER. MAY WYNNE. 1333. THE RETURN OF CLANEBOY. SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON. 1373-1399. UNDER ONE SCEPTRE. EMILY S. HOLT. 1375-1417. ART MURROUGH O’KAVANAGH. M. L. O’BYRNE. _c._ 1397. THE CAPTURE OF KILLESHIN. SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON. _c._ 1410. CORBY MacGILLMORE. SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON.

The Geraldines.

THE HEIRESS OF KILORGAN. MRS. J. SADLIER.

Silken Thomas.

1533-7. THOMAS FITZGERALD THE LORD OF OFFALY. 1532-1537. THE WEIRD OF “THE SILKEN THOMAS.” R. MANIFOLD-CRAIG. 1534-5. THE SIEGE OF MAYNOOTH. 1534-5. THE REBELLION OF SILKEN THOMAS. SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON.

Seaghan O’Neill.

1559-1567. A PRINCE OF TYRONE. CHARLOTTE FENNELL AND J. P. O’CALLAGHAN.

The Desmond Wars.

_c._ 1560. THE PALE AND THE SEPTS. M. L. O’BYRNE. 1565. RALPH WYNWARD. H. ELRINGTON. _c._ 1577. FOR CHURCH AND CHIEFTAIN. MAY WYNNE. 1577-1582. MAELCHO. EMILY LAWLESS. 1580-2. GERALDINE OF DESMOND. MISS CRUMPE.

Grania Ni Mhailie (Grace O’Malley).

_c._ 1585-1590. A QUEEN OF MEN. WILLIAM O’BRIEN, M.P. _c._ 1579 _sq._ GRACE O’MALLEY, PRINCESS AND PIRATE. ROBERT MACHRAY. _c._ 1585. GRANIA WAILE. FULMAR PETREL. _c._ 1585. THE DARK LADY OF DOONA. W. H. MAXWELL.

Elizabethan Persecutions.

THE SPAEWIFE. REV. JOHN BOYCE, D.D. 1584. THE SORROW OF LYCADOON. MRS. T. CONCANNON.

Elizabethan Ireland.

1585-1590. SIR LUDAR. TALBOT BAINES REED. HIBERNIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON. THE BOG OF STARS. STANDISH O’GRADY. 1580-1600. THE SPANISH WINE. FRANK MATHEW.

The War of the Earls.

1587. FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE. STANDISH O’GRADY. 1601-1602. ULRICK THE READY. STANDISH O’GRADY. EARL OR CHIEFTAIN. PATRICIA DILLON. THE ADVENTURER. THE RED HAND OF ULSTER. MRS. SADLIER. THE CHARMING OF ESTERCEL. GRACE RHYS. _c._ 1597. MacCARTHY MOR. MRS. JAMES SADLIER. 1599-1603. LAST EARL OF DESMOND. C. B. GIBSON. THE BROKEN SWORD OF ULSTER. RICHARD CUNINGHAME. SIR GUY D’ESTERRE. SELINA BUNBURY. 1599. WITH ESSEX IN IRELAND. EMILY LAWLESS.

Ireland under James I. and Charles I.

1608. THE LAST OF THE IRISH CHIEFS. MRS. M. T. PENDER. 1603. THE DAUGHTER OF TYRCONNELL. MRS. JAMES SADLIER. 1609. HUGH TALBOT. W. J. O’NEILL DAUNT. 1633. KATHLEEN CLARE. DORA MCCHESNEY. 1640. FRANK MAXWELL. J. H. LEPPER.

The Confederation and the Parliamentary Wars.

1641-1652. THE CONFEDERATE CHIEFTAINS. MRS. JAMES SADLIER. 1641-1652. THE WILD ROSE OF LOUGH GILL. P. G. SMYTH. 1642-1652. THE CHANCES OF WAR. REV. T. A. FINLAY, S.J. 1644. CAPTAIN HARRY. J. H. LEPPER. _c._ 1645. SILK AND STEEL. H. A. HINKSON. 1645. FRIENDS THOUGH DIVIDED. G. A. HENTY. 1647-1654. LORD ROCHE’S DAUGHTERS OF FERMOY. M. L. O’BYRNE. THE FLIGHT FROM THE CLIFFS. JAMES MURPHY. 1649. WHEN CROMWELL CAME TO DROGHEDA. RANDAL M’DONNELL. 1649. IN THE KING’S SERVICE. F. S. BRERETON. 1649. CASTLE OMERAGH. F. FRANKFORT MOORE. 1649. JOHN MARMADUKE. SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH. _c._ 1649. THE SILK OF THE KINE. MISS L. MACMANUS.

Roundhead Rule.

1652-1660. THE KING OF CLADDAGH. T. FITZPATRICK. 1654. CAPTAIN LATYMER. F. FRANKFORT MOORE. 1654. ETHNE. MRS. FIELD. 1654. NESSA. L. MACMANUS.

The Williamite Wars.

1671-1748. MEMOIRS OF GERALD O’CONNOR. W. O’CONNOR MORRIS. 1680. THE FIGHT OF FAITH. MRS. S. C. HALL. 1685-1691. THE BOYNE WATER. J. BANIM. 1689. TRUE TO THE WATCHWORD. E. PICKERING. 1689-1690. A MAN’S FOES. E. H. STRAIN. 1689. THE KNIGHTS OF THE WHITE ROSE. GEORGE GRIFFITH. 1689. DERRY. CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH. 1690. IN SARSFIELD’S DAYS. MISS L. MACMANUS. 1690. LEIXLIP CASTLE. M. L. O’BYRNE. 1689-91. THE FORTUNES OF COL. TORLOGH O’BRIEN. J. SHERIDAN LE FANU. 1689-1691. MY SWORD FOR PATRICK SARSFIELD. RANDAL M’DONNELL. 1689-1690. THE CRIMSON SIGN. S. R. KEIGHTLEY. 1689-1691. ORANGE AND GREEN. G. A. HENTY. BALDEARG O’DONNELL. HON. ALBERT S. CANNING. THE HOUSE OF LISRONAN. MIRIAM ALEXANDER. 1689-1770. THE IRISH CHIEFTAINS. CHARLES FFRENCH BLAKE-FORSTER.

The Eighteenth Century.

_c._ 1696. THE DENOUNCED. JOHN BANIM. 1696. REDMOND O’HANLON. WILLIAM CARLETON. 1690-1726. LUTTRELL’S DOOM. D. F. HANNIGAN. _c._ 1698. THE COMING OF THE KING. ARTHUR SYNAN. _c._ 1705-1710. THE COCK AND ANCHOR. J. SHERIDAN LE FANU. _c._ 1712. ESTHER VANHOMRIGH. MARGARET L. WOODS. 1761-1764. THE HEARTS OF STEEL. JAMES M’HENRY, M.D. 1770. ANDRÉ BESNARD. 1770. IN THE DAYS OF GOLDSMITH. M. M’D. BODKIN. _c._ 1771. THE JESSAMY BRIDE. F. FRANKFORT MOORE. 1750-1798. THE TWO CHIEFS OF DUNBOY. J. A. FROUDE. 1760. SARSFIELD. DR. JOHN GAMBLE. 1766. THE FATE OF FATHER SHEEHY. MRS. JAMES SADLIER.

The Irish Brigade.

A SWORDSMAN OF THE BRIGADE. M. O’HANNRACHAIN. _c._ 1702. MOUNTCASHEL’S BRIGADE. BRIGADIER-GEN. C. G. HALPINE. _c._ 1702. LALLY OF THE BRIGADE. MISS L. MACMANUS. 1703-1710. IN THE IRISH BRIGADE. G. A. HENTY. 1719. CLEMENTINA. A. E. W. MASON. SPANISH JOHN. WILLIAM MCLENNAN. _c._ 1745. THE LAST RECRUIT OF CLARE’S. S. R. KEIGHTLEY. _c._ 1745. TREASURE TROVE. SAMUEL LOVER.

Grattan’s Parliament and the Union.

_c._ 1785. THE KING’S DEPUTY. H. A. HINKSON. 1780-1797. THE LOST LAND. JULIA M. CROTTIE. 1782-1803. MY LORDS OF STROGUE. LEWIS WINGFIELD. 1793-1798. THE O’BRIENS AND O’FLAHERTYS. LADY MORGAN. 1797-1801. ILL-WON PEERAGES. M. L. O’BYRNE. _c._ 1800. THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE. CHARLES LEVER.

Ninety-eight in the North.

THE INSURGENT CHIEF. JAMES MCHENRY. O’HARA. W. H. MAXWELL. THE NORTHERN IRON. GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM. THE GREEN COCKADE. MRS. M. T. PENDER. STRONG AS DEATH. MRS. CHARLES M. CLARKE. THE NORTHERNS OF ’98. EYRE EVANS CROWE. A PRISONER OF HIS WORD. LOUIE BENNETT. NINETY-EIGHT AND SIXTY YEARS AFTER. “ANDREW JAMES.” BETSY GRAY. W. G. LYTTLE. THE PIKEMEN. S. R. KEIGHTLEY.

Ninety-eight in Wexford.

THE FORGE OF CLOHOGE. JAMES MURPHY. THE CROPPY. MICHAEL BANIM. CROPPIES LIE DOWN. WILLIAM BUCKLEY. AGNES ARNOLD. WILLIAM BERNARD MACCABE. NINETY-EIGHT. “PATRICK C. FALY” (JOHN HILL). MAUREEN MOORE. RUPERT ALEXANDER. KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN. RANDAL M’DONNELL. THE IRISH WIDOW’S SON. C. O’LEARY. CORRAGEEN IN ’98. MRS. ORPEN. ROSE PARNELL. D. P. CONYNGHAM. OLIVE LACY. ANNA ARGYLE. THE WOOD OF THE BRAMBLES. FRANK MATHEW. UP FOR THE GREEN. H. A. HINKSON. THE O’MAHONY, CHIEF OF THE COMERAGHS. D. P. CONYNGHAM. 1798-1805. MICHAEL DWYER, THE INSURGENT CAPTAIN. DR. CAMPION.

Humbert in the West.

1798. THE ROUND TOWER. FLORENCE SCOTT and ALMA HODGE. 1793-1809. MAURICE TIERNAY. CHARLES LEVER. CONNAUGHT: A TALE OF 1798. M. ARCHDEACON. 1798. LE BRISEUR DE FERS. GEORGES D’ESPARBES. THE RACE OF CASTLEBAR. EMILY LAWLESS and SHAN F. BULLOCK.

The United Irishmen.

TRUE TO THE CORE. C. J. HAMILTON. THE PATRIOT BROTHERS. CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE. 1798. THE SHAN VAN VOCHT. JAMES MURPHY. _c._ 1796. LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD. M. M’DONNELL BODKIN. 1792-1798. KILGORMAN. TALBOT BAINES REED. 1796. THE REBELS. M. M’DONNELL BODKIN. 1796-1797. THE HOUSE IN THE RATH. JAMES MURPHY. 1797. THE O’DONOGHUE. CHARLES LEVER.

Emmet.

1803. ROBERT EMMET. STEPHEN GWYNN. TRUE MAN AND TRAITOR. M. M’D. BODKIN. 1803. RAVENSDALE. ROBERT THYNNE. 1797-1803. THE ISLAND OF SORROW. GEORGE GILBERT.

The Nineteenth Century.

1817. THE BLACK PROPHET. WILLIAM CARLETON. 1829. GLENANAAR. CANON P. A. SHEEHAN. 1830. HUGH ROACH THE RIBBONMAN. JAMES MURPHY. _c._ 1830. THE MANOR OF GLENMORE. PETER BURROWES KELLY. 1831. THE TERRY ALT. STEPHEN JOSEPH MEANY. IRISH LIFE IN COURT AND CASTLE. (ISAAC BUTT.) 1843. THE KELLYS AND THE O’KELLYS. ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

The Famine and Young Ireland.

THE HUNGER. ANDREW MERRY. 1845-1848. CASTLE DALY. MISS KEARY. 1846-1847. CASTLE RICHMOND. ANTHONY TROLLOPE. 1848. MONONIA. JUSTIN M’CARTHY. 1848. LILY LASS. JUSTIN HUNTLY M’CARTHY. 1848. THE FALCON FAMILY. MARMION SAVAGE. 1848. MAURICE RHYNHART. J. T. LISTADO.

Fenianism.

1865-6. THE THREE FENIAN BROTHERS. JOHN HAMILTON. THE GRAVES AT KILMORNA. CANON P. A. SHEEHAN. 1866. CARROLL O’DONOGHUE. CHRISTINE FABER. 1865-1883. FITZGERALD, THE FENIAN. J. D. MAGINN. 1865. WHEN WE WERE BOYS. WILLIAM O’BRIEN, M.P. 1866. RIDGEWAY. “SCIAN DUBH.” 1867. THE DUNFERRY RISIN’. J. J. MORAN. 1867. LIGHT AND SHADE. CHARLOTTE GRACE O’BRIEN.

Home Rule, &c.

1870. THE BAD TIMES. G. A. BIRMINGHAM. _c._ 1870. A SON OF ERIN. ANNIE S. SWAN. 1875-1891. HER MAJESTY’S REBELS. S. R. LYSAGHT.

II.—GAELIC EPIC AND ROMANTIC LITERATURE.

I have thought it well to set apart from the mass of Anglo-Irish fictional literature and to put together in a list that portion of our national fiction which draws its inspiration from ancient Gaelic sources. To do this with any sort of completeness, it would be necessary, of course, to deal with the whole body of fiction that has been written in the Irish language. Reasons have been given in the Preface stating why this task was not undertaken. A further reason presented itself some two years ago, viz., the appearance of the magnificent work published in 1913 by the National Library—_Bibliography of Irish Philology and of Printed Irish Literature_ (price 5_s._). In this scholarly work the literature of Gaelic epic, saga, and romance is scientifically classified and described with the greatest bibliographical accuracy. For me to attempt that task over again would be little better than an impertinence. It might even be thought, and not unnaturally, that the present list is wholly superfluous. Yet perhaps it may not be without its utility, owing to the fact that in the work just referred to descriptive notes are not provided. This list, then, is practically an excerpt from that work, with the addition of some notes that may be useful. The notes will be found in the body of the book.

O’GRADY, STANDISH HAYES. SILVA GADELICA.

FARADAY, WINIFRED, M.A. THE CATTLE RAID OF CUAILNGE.

MEYER, KUNO. THE VOYAGE OF BRAN, SON OF FERBAL, TO THE LAND OF THE LIVING.

⸺ LIADAIN AND CUIRITHIR.

⸺ THE VISION OF MACCONGLINNE.

JOYCE, P. W. OLD CELTIC ROMANCES.

GREGORY, LADY. CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE.

⸺ GODS AND FIGHTING MEN.

SKELLY, REV. A. M., O.P. CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE.

O’MULLANE, M. FINN MACCOOLE: His Life and Times, and other pamphlets published by the C.T.S. of Ireland. See under name O’Mullane.

HULL, ELEANOR. THE CUCHULLIN SAGA IN IRISH LITERATURE.

⸺ CUCHULAIN THE HOUND OF ULSTER.

ROLLESTON, T. W. THE HIGH DEEDS OF FINN, and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland.

⸺ MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE CELTIC RACE.

RUSSELL, VIOLET. HEROES OF THE DAWN (Stories of Finn and the Fianna).

O’GRADY, STANDISH. FINN AND HIS COMPANIONS.

⸺ THE COMING OF CUCHULAINN.

⸺ THE GATES OF THE NORTH.

⸺ HISTORY OF IRELAND: Heroic Period.

LEAHY, A. H. THE COURTSHIP OF FERB.

⸺ ANCIENT HEROIC ROMANCES OF IRELAND.

SQUIRE, CHARLES. THE BOY HERO OF ERIN.

⸺ CELTIC MYTH AND LEGEND.

O’BYRNE, W. LORCAN. CHILDREN OF KINGS.

⸺ A LAND OF HEROES.

MACLEOD, FIONA. THE LAUGHTER OF PETERKIN, etc.

CARBERY, ETHNA. IN THE CELTIC PAST.

HOPPER, NORA; MRS. W. H. CHESSON. BALLADS IN PROSE.

DEASE, ALICE. OLD-TIME STORIES OF ERIN.

BUXTON, E. M. WILMOT. OLD CELTIC TALES RETOLD.

M’CALL, P. J. FENIAN NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENTS.

YOUNG, ELLA. THE COMING OF LUGH.

⸺ CELTIC WONDER TALES.

SIMPSON, JOHN HAWKINS. POEMS OF OISIN, BARD OF ERIN.

CARMICHAEL, ALEXANDER. DEIRDRE AND THE LAY OF THE CHILDREN OF UISNE.

THOMAS, EDWARD. CELTIC STORIES.

CHISHOLM, LOUEY. CELTIC TALES.

FURLONG, ALICE. TALES OF FAIRY FOLKS, QUEENS, AND HEROES.

CAMPBELL, J. F. THE CELTIC DRAGON MYTH.

HENDERSON, GEORGE. THE FEAST OF BRICRIU.

MACSWEENEY, P. M. MARTIAL CAREER OF CONGHAL CLÁIRINGHNEACH.

HYDE, DOUGLAS. ADVENTURES OF THE LAD OF THE FERULE.

⸺ ADVENTURES OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KING OF NORWAY.

MACALISTER, R. A. S. TWO IRISH ARTHURIAN ROMANCES.

STOKES, WHITLEY. THE DESTRUCTION OF DÁ DERGA’S HOSTEL.

BUGGE, A. CATHREIM CELLACHAIN CAISIL.

THURNEYSEN, RUDOLF. SAGEN AUS DEM ALTEN IRLAND.

DOTTIN, GEORGES. CONTES ET LÉGENDES D’IRLANDE.

D’ARBOIS DE JUBAINVILLE. COURS DE LITTÉRATURE CELTIQUE.

⸺ TÁIN BO CUALNGE.

Owing to a mistake the note on this writer and his books will be found

## partly on p. 68 and partly on p. 125.

DUNN, JOSEPH. THE ANCIENT IRISH EPIC, TÁIN BO CUALNGE.

Many of our heroic legends and ancient sagas have been retold in English verse. Though fiction in verse does not come within the scope of the present Guide, yet it may be of interest to mention here a few of these poetic renderings of ancient Gaelic tales. Sir Samuel Ferguson’s _Congal_, _Conary_, _Lays of the Red Branch_, and _Lays of the Western Gael_; Aubrey de Vere’s _Foray of Queen Maeve_; Robert Dwyer Joyce’s _Blanid_ and _Deirdre_; John Todhunter’s _Three Irish Bardic Tales_; Douglas Hyde’s _Three Sorrows of Story-telling_; Herbert Trench’s _The Quest_; Katharine Tynan’s “Diarmuid and Gráinne” in her _Shamrocks_; Mrs. Hutton’s stately blank verse translation of _The Táin_; and, last year, Dr. Geo. Sigerson’s _The Saga of King Lir_; also _The Red Branch Crests_, a trilogy by Charles L. Moore; _The Death of Oscar_ by Alice Sargant. Hector MacLean has collected in the Highlands and presented in English verse _Ultonian Hero Ballads_, which, as the title implies, are of Irish origin. For notes and bibliographical particulars of the above see _A Guide to Books on Ireland_,