“A grave domestic story worked out on a basis of character, laid in an Irish rural district.”—(_Baker_). ⸺ THE TRACKLESS WAY. Pp. 465. (_Brimley Johnson_). 6_s._ 1903. “The story of a man’s quest for God.” (Sub-t.). Scene: chiefly “Garvaghy, Co. Innismore,” in Ulster. The book is a searching study of the inward religious and outward social life of a Presbyterian minister, Gideon Horville, his difficulties, aspirations, friendships, disappointment in marriage. He is dismissed by his Church for teaching erroneous doctrines, begins to write, and subsequently helps his great friend Lord Tomnitoul in his religious and socialistic schemes. The Author’s religious attitude is equally opposed to Catholicism, to Calvinism, and, indeed, to Christianity. The background, Horville’s social circle, with its meannesses, spites, and petty jealousies, is not a pleasant one. The Author writes with thorough knowledge. There are no politics. =“ESMOND, Henry.”= ⸺ A LIFE’S HAZARD: or, The Outlaw of Wentworth Waste. Three Vols. (_Sampson, Low_). 1878. Scene: N. Co. Dublin. A sensational tale—abducted heir, forged will, usurped title, jealousy, revenge, attempted murders, perjury, &c. The outlaw, O’Grady, a T.C.D. man and a barrister, heads a popular rising, twice escapes execution, and performs wonderful deeds, always appearing in the nick of time to rescue beauty in distress, or upset the schemes of the false lord. There is much brogue—of a sort. The supernatural is frequently introduced. =FABER, Christine.= This is said to be a pen-name. An American Catholic writer. Other novels—_An Original Girl_ (1901), _Ambition’s Contest_, _A Fatal Resemblance_, _Reaping the Whirlwind_ (1905), _A Chivalrous Deed_, _The Guardian’s Mystery_, _A Mother’s Sacrifice_. All of these are published by P. J. Kenedy of New York. ⸺ CARROLL O’DONOGHUE; a Tale of the Irish Struggles of 1866 and of recent times. Pp. 501. Pretty cover. (_Duffy_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1903. Scene laid chiefly in Kerry, at the time of the Fenian movement, though it is not a narrative of the latter. A very dramatic story finely wrought out. Full of local colour, humour, and pathos. =“FALY, Patrick C.”; John Hill.= ⸺ NINETY-EIGHT: being the Recollections of Cormac Cahir O’Connor Faly (late Col. in the French Service) of that awful period. Collected and edited by his grandson, Patrick C. Faly, Attorney-at-Law, Buffalo, N.Y. (_Downey_). Illustr. A. D. M’Cormick. 1897. Cormac is heart and soul with the rebels. Life in Dublin, 1798, described. Then we are brought all through the scenes of the rising. =FARADAY, Winifred, M.A.= ⸺ THE CATTLE RAID OF CUALNGE. (Táin bó Cuailnge). An ancient Irish prose epic [Grimm Library, No. 16]. Pp. xxi. + 141. (_Nutt_). 4_s._ (N.Y.: _Scribner_). 1.25. 1904.