The story of the love of a Kerry peasant girl for the ill-fated John Sheares. The interest is that of plot, history being quite of minor importance, and centres in the scheming of his various enemies to compass the destruction of John Sheares in spite of all the efforts of his guardian angel, Norah Nagle. There is not one really sympathetic character. Sheares is a mere dreamer; Norah is generous and faithful, but lies and “barges” on occasion; almost all the rest, except Norah’s peasant lover, are fools or villains of the blackest sort. Disagreeable picture of the Dublin of the day. The story is told with considerable verve and carries one along. The Author is not at all hostile, but seems unstirred to any feeling of enthusiasm for the cause of Ireland. ⸺ DR. BELTON’S DAUGHTERS. Pp. 169. (_Ward, Lock_). 1890. Alice the second marries a curate in the W. of Ireland and struggles to keep up on small means a good appearance. Her husband is an incurable optimist. ⸺ THE LUCK OF THE KAVANAGHS. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ 1910. Strange adventures of an emigrant Irish boy. =HAMILTON, Edwin, M.A., B.L., M.R.I.A.= Born 1849. Resides at Donaghadee, Co. Down. Author of _Dublin Doggerels_ (1880), _The Moderate Man_ (1888, _Downey_). The two following books are not in the British Museum Library. ⸺ BALLYMUCKBEG. 1885. Political satire. ⸺ WAGGISH TALES. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1897. =HAMILTON, John, of St. Ernan’s. “An Irishman” [N.M.].= ⸺ THE THREE FENIAN BROTHERS. (_Macmillan_). 18mo. 1866. 1_s._ Paul, Mark, and Ned Ryan, sons of a well-to-do farmer, were enticed into joining the Brotherhood, the two former by Patrick Mahoney, the village schoolmaster. Ned had served in the Federal Army (U.S.A.), and was sent back to Ireland as a captain. “The characters and careers of the brothers are vividly depicted in an interesting tale, the dialogue is pointed, often witty.... In the unfolding of the story much light is incidentally thrown on the state of feeling in Ireland in 1865-6.” The Author has told his life-story in _Sixty Years’ Experience as an Irish Landlord_, and given his views in _Thoughts on Ireland by an Irish Landlord_ (1886). =“HAMILTON, M.”; Mrs. Churchill-Luck=, _née_ =Spottiswoode-Ashe=. Is a native of Co. Derry. Publ. also _The Freedom of Harry Meredith_, _M’Leod of the Camerons_, _A Self-denying Ordinance_, _Mrs. Brett_, _The Woman who Looked Back_, &c. ⸺ ON AN ULSTER FARM. Pp. 143. (_Everett_). A realistic sketch of the life of a workhouse child sent out to service to a particularly unlovable set of hard Scotch Ulster folk. Interesting as a study of character and as an exposure of the misery attendant on the working of certain parts of the workhouse system. This subject is also treated in Rosa Mulholland’s _Nanno_, _q.v._ ⸺ ACROSS AN IRISH BOG. (_Heinemann_). 1896.