Deals, in considerable detail, with political and social life in the Ireland of the time. The circles of Lord Edward and Pamela Fitzgerald (centering in Leinster House), of the Emmet family (at the Casino, Milltown), and of the Curran family (at the Priory, Rathfarnham) are fully portrayed and neatly interlinked in private life. The whole romance of Emmet and Sarah Curran is related. There are many portraits—Charles James Fox, Curran (depicted as a domestic monster), many men of the Government party, above all, Emmet. This portrait is not lacking in sympathy, though the theatrical and inconsiderate character of his aims is insisted on. The whole work shows considerable power of _dramatizing_ history, and is made distinctly interesting. “The author,” says Mr. Baker, “tries to be impartial, but cannot divest himself of an Englishman’s lack of sympathy with Ireland.” The book is preceded by a valuable list of authorities and sources. =GILL, E. A. Wharton.= ⸺ AN IRISHMAN’S LUCK. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 6_s._ 1914. “A domestic tale of young folk in a British settlement in Manitoba, and of the Canadian contingent in the Boer War.”—(T. LIT. SUPPL.). =GODFREY, Hal=, _see_ =CHARLOTTE O’C. ECCLES=. =GOODRICH, Samuel Griswold; “Peter Parley.”= Born 1793 in Connecticut. Author of 170 volumes, the list of them, with notes, occupying 7½ columns of Allibone, of which 116 appeared under pseud. “Peter Parley.” Seven millions had, according to the Author, been sold at date of Allibone. ⸺ TALES ABOUT IRELAND AND THE IRISH. 16mo. Pp. 300. (LONDON: _Berger_). [1834]. 1836, 1852, 1856. _n.d._ _c._ 1865. In Ch. I. there is a short account of the physical features, climate, etc., of I. Pages 20-140 give a popular account of Irish history from the English point of view, but on the whole not unfair to Ireland. At p. 150 commences a pleasant little description of a tour round I., with some little account of antiquities seen on the way; also occasional legends and stories connected with places. Illustrated by a number of small nondescript woodcuts of no value. The above work seems to be a portion of the Author’s _Tales about Great Britain_. First publ. Baltimore, 1834. =GRANT, John O’Brien; “Denis Ignatius Moriarty.”= The former of these two names is signed to a dedication in _The Wife Hunter_, one of the “Tales by the Moriarty Family.” I am not sure that it is not as fictitious as the second. ⸺ THE HUSBAND HUNTER. Three Vols. 1839. A society novel. Scene: Kerry, _c._ 1830. There is very little plot, and the matrimonial complications (a Russian prince and a German baron are involved) of the lady who gives to the story its title form by no means the central episode. The conversations are rather artificial and the humour a little insipid. Pleasant portrait of a priest of the old sporting type. Nothing objectionable.