Sub-title: A page from Ireland’s Martyrology. A finely written romance dealing with the fate of the brothers Sheares, executed in 1798. Their story is followed with practically historical exactitude, a thread of romance being woven in. A good account of the politics of the time, especially of the elaborate spy-system then flourishing, is given, but not so as to interfere with the interest of the tale. There are fine descriptions of the scenery of Wicklow, in which the action chiefly takes place, and especially of the Golden Vale between Bray and Delgany. =HAMILTON, Catherine J.= Born in Somerset of Irish parents, her father being from Strabane and her mother from Queen’s Co. Ed. chiefly by her father, a vicar of the Ch. of England. At his death, in 1859, removed to Ireland and lived there more than thirty years. Publ. at twenty-five her first story, _Hedged with Thorns_. Wrote verse for the ARGOSY and Irish stories for the GRAPHIC; contributed regularly to WEEKLY IRISH TIMES and IRELAND’S OWN, including several serials. At present resides in London. Author of _Notable Irishwomen_ (1904), _Women Writers, their Works and Ways_ (1892), &c. ⸺ MARRIAGE BONDS; or, Christian Hazell’s Married Life. Pp. 439. (_Ward, Lock_). _n.d._ (1878). First appeared in THE ENGLISHWOMAN’S DOMESTIC MAGAZINE. An unhappy marriage of a sweet, loving, sensitive nature to a man of a hard, selfish character, who treats his wife with studied neglect and discourtesy. Christian comes from her native English manor house to live with Alick Hazell in an ugly, ill-managed Irish country house, among disagreeable neighbours somewhere on the S.E. coast of Ireland. He hates the people, and is a bad landlord. She has no friend until the arrival of his brother Eustace, whose mother was Irish and who loves Ireland. Almost unawares they fall in love, but E. is a man of honour, and C. is faithful to her husband to the very end. The author is on Ireland’s side, though somewhat apologetically and vaguely. Good picture of bitterly anti-Irish narrow-minded type of minor country gentry. ⸺ THE FLYNNS OF FLYNNVILLE. Pp. 250. (_Ward, Lock_). 1879. A story of the sensational kind, founded on the murder of a bank-manager by a constabulary officer called Montgomery, and the subsequent trial, which many years ago excited considerable interest. Scene: S. of Ireland. ⸺ TRUE TO THE CORE: a Romance of ’98. Two Vols. (_F. V. White_). 1884.