⸺ MEMORIES OF A MONTH AMONG THE “MERE IRISH.” Pp. xxix. + 321. (_Keegan, Paul_). [1881]. Second edition, 1886. A record of conversations held and things seen, but especially of legends, stories, and anecdotes heard from the peasantry during a stay made by the Author when a youth at Doe Castle, near the head of Sheephaven, Co. Donegal. Owen Gregallah (Gallagher?), an old water-bailiff, with whom the Author used to go fishing, tells many of these latter, in the local dialect, which is faithfully reproduced. The stories are interesting in themselves, and very well told. Dr. Mahaffy referred in the _Academy_ to one of them as the funniest Irish story in print. There is no condescension in the Author’s tone. He likes and respects, as well as enjoys, his peasant companions. He seems to be an American. The Preface to the second ed. gives a humorous account of the difficulties of travel in Donegal in those days. N.B.—The title on the cover is “‘Mere Irish’ Stories.” ⸺ DERRYREEL. Pp. vi. + 184. (LONDON: _Hamilton, Adams_). 1886. “A collection of stories from N.W. Donegal.” This writer published also a volume entitled _Floredice Stories_. =FLYNN, T. M.= Was living at Carrick-on-Shannon at the time of writing these sketches. ⸺ A CELTIC FIRESIDE: Tales of Irish Rural Life. (_Sealy Bryers_). 1_s._ 1907. Nine little tales—tragedies and comedies—of Irish life in country and city. Many little touches show how well the Author knows Irish life. He has a power, too, of making the truth of his pictures go home to our hearts.—(_N.I.R._). =FOREMAN, Stephen.= ⸺ THE OVERFLOWING SCOURGE, Pp. 335. (_Alston Rivers_). 6_s._ 1911. Career of an unprincipled lawyer, who gains judgeship by a series of crimes and keeps it by crimes even more heinous. A greatly overdrawn picture of a dark and unpleasant side of life. Such incidents as a packed jury condemning unjustly the presiding judge’s son (with the judge’s own approbation) to penal servitude seem wholly improbable. The parson and his wife afford a gleam of humour. Although some of the worst of the characters are Protestants, there are several apparent sneers at things Catholic. “It is not written virginibus puerisque.”—(_I.B.L._). The career of Blanco Hamilton seems to be founded on that of Judge Keogh, and the incidental references are to the latter’s times. Other novels of this writer, a Corkman, living in Cork, are _The Errors of the Comedy_, _The Fen Dogs_, _The Terrible Choice_. =FORSTER, C. F. Blake-=, _see_ =BLAKE-FORSTER=. =FRANCILLON, Robert E.= ⸺ UNDER SLIEVE BÁN: a Yarn in Seven Knots. Pp. 275. (N.Y.: _Holt_). 1881. It originally appeared as a Christmas Annual with Coloured Illustrations. Pp. 128. (_Grant_). 1_s._