N.B.—A book with the title of “Contes Irlandais” was published by Messrs. Gill, of Dublin, 70 pp., 4to, 7_s._ 6_d._ It consists of extracts from the untranslated portion of Douglas Hyde’s “Leabhar Sgeuluigheachta” translated into French by M. Georges Dottin, with the original Irish text in Roman letters on the opposite page. ⸺ CONTES ET LÉGENDES D’IRLANDE. Pp. 218. (_Le Havre_). 3_fr._ 50. 1901. See previous item. Thirty-eight tales translated from Irish texts, published without translation in the Gaelic Journal since 1882. Collected in all parts of Ireland, _e.g._, Les exploits de Fion MacCumhail et de son géant Seachrin. Fion MacCumhail et son pouce de science. Le Gobán Saor et Saint Moling. La belle fille rusée du Gobán Saor. Le trèfle à quatre feuilles, &c. =DOUGLAS, James.= Born in Belfast of a Tyrone family. Is assistant editor and literary critic of the London STAR. Author of _The Man in the Pulpit_, _Adventures in London_, &c. Contributes to ATHENÆUM, BOOKMAN, &c. ⸺ THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. Pp. x + 418. 6_s._ (_Grant Richards_). 1907. Falls into two parts. Part I. describes upbringing of a boy in Belfast (Bigotsborough). Pictures sectarian hatred leading to riots, in one of which, vividly described, the hero loses a little brother. Other characters finely portrayed are “Jane the Nailor” and the then Head Master of the Model School (“the Castle”). In Part II. the boy has become a great preacher. All London flocks to hear him, but he is beset with doubts and difficulties. W. B. Yeats and Miss Maud Gonne are introduced under thinly disguised names. The first part has been called by editor of I. B. L. “the finest delineation of Belfast boyhood ever penned.” The second part has been not inaptly described as “the dream of an opium-eater.” =DOWLING, Richard.= Born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, 1846. Educated St. Munchin’s, Limerick. Much of his life was passed in journalistic work, first for the NATION, then for London papers. He edited the short-lived comic papers ZOZIMUS and YORICK, and was a leading spirit in another, IRELAND’S EYE. In 1879 came his Irish romance, _The Mystery of Killard_; but he found that there was no public at the time for Irish novels, so he devoted himself to writing sensational stories for the English public. He published some delightful volumes of essays, _Ignorant Essays_ and _Indolent Essays_. These deal with all kinds of subjects in a quaint, humorous, fanciful vein. Other novels—_The Sport of Fate_, _Under St. Paul’s_, _The Weird Sisters_, &c., seventeen or so in all. ⸺ THE MYSTERY OF KILLARD. Pp. 357. (_Tinsley Bros._) [1879]. New edition, 1884.