Sixteen typical folk-tales collected in Kiltartan, a barony in Galway, on the borders of Clare, from the lips of old peasants. “I have not changed a word in these stories as they were told to me.”—(Note at end). But some transpositions of parts have been made. It does not appear whether the stories were told to Lady Gregory in Irish or in English. Nothing unsuited to children. All the tales are distinctly _modern_ in tone if not in origin. The illustrations are quaint and original, with their crude figures vividly coloured in flat tints. =GRIERSON, Elizabeth.= ⸺ THE CHILDREN’S BOOK OF CELTIC STORIES. Pp. 324. (_Black_). 6_s._ Twelve very good illustrations in colour from drawings by Allan Stewart. 1908. Sixteen fairy, folk, and hero-tales, partly Irish, partly Scotch, dealing, among other things, with wonderful talking animals that prove to be human beings transformed, adventures of king’s sons amid all kinds of wonders, &c. One is “The Fate of the Children of Lir,” and there are five or six about Fin. There is little or no comicality. The style is simple and refined, free from the usual defects of folk-lore. The book is beautifully and attractively produced. ⸺ THE SCOTTISH FAIRY BOOK. Pp. 384. (_Fisher Unwin_). 6_s._ 100 Ill. by M. M. Williams. 1910. Same series as Mr. A. P. Graves’s _Irish Fairy Book_, _q.v._ Illustr. in a similar way. Not all of these tales will be new to Irish children. =GRIERSON, Rev. Robert.= Resides at 41 Ormond Road, Rathmines. His two books are long out of print. I have been unable to obtain information about them. They are not in the British Museum Library. ⸺ THE INVASION OF CROMLEIGH: a Story of the Times. ⸺ BALLYGOWNA. (ABERDEEN: _Moran_). 1898. =GRIFFIN, Gerald.= Is one of our foremost novelists of the old school. Born 1803, died 1840. Brought up on the banks of the Shannon, twenty-eight miles from Limerick, at twenty he went to London, where all his writing was done. Two years before his death he became a Christian Brother. “He was the first,” says Dr. Sigerson, “to present several of our folk customs, tales, and ancient legends in English prose.” P. J. Kenedy, of New York, publishes an edition of his works in seven volumes, and Messrs. Duffy have an edition in ten vols. at 2_s._ each. ⸺ HOLLAND TIDE. Pp. 378. (_Simpkin & Marshall_). 1827. First series of _Tales of the Munster Festivals_, _q.v._ Often published separately. ⸺ THE COLLEGIANS; or, The Colleen Bawn. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1828]. Still reprinted. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.75. A new ed. forthcoming (_Talbot Press_). 2_s._ 6_d._