An ugly, but very powerful, tale of seduction in Irish peasant life. The study of the ignominious aspirations of the seducer, a Protestant clergyman, after social elevation forms the pith of the book. The difficulty of his position, technically on a level with the gentry, though he is wholly unequal to them in breeding, is brought out. ⸺ BEYOND THE BOUNDARY. Pp. 306. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 1902. Scene: first in London, afterwards among Ulster peasantry (dialect cleverly reproduced). Theme: a curiously ill-assorted marriage. Brian Lindsay, son of Presbyterian Ulster peasants, had during a panic deserted his men in action. Afterwards he had been decorated mistakenly, instead of the man who had died to save him. In London he meets this man’s sister, a solitary working girl, but a lady. They are married, and he takes her home. Disillusionment on the wife’s part follows, and Brian is threatened with the discovery of his secret. What came of it all is told in a beautiful and convincing story. Not gloomy nor morbid. Running through the main plot is the story of poor little French Pipette, deserted by the foolish, selfish, mother, whom she adores. Old Lindsay, dour and godly, is very well done. An element of humour is found in the characters of Miss Arnold of the venomous tongue; fat little Mr. Leslie, who loves his dinners; and Maggie, the Lindsay’s maid-of-all-work. =HANNAY, Rev. James Owen=, _see_ =“GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM.”= =HANNIGAN, D. F.= Was born at Dungarvan, 1855. Ed. at St. John’s, Waterford, and Queen’s College, Cork. Called to Irish bar, and formerly a journalist in Dublin; is now in America. Contributed a long serial, _The Moores of Moore’s Court_, to the MONITOR, 1879, and other stories to the Dublin press. ⸺ LUTTRELL’S DOOM. Pp. 76. (ABERDEEN: _Moran_). 1_s._ 1896. Purports to be extracts from an Irish gentlewoman’s diary kept between 1690 and 1726. =HANNON, John.= Born at Isleworth, 1870. Son of John Hannon, of Kildorrery, Co. Cork. Ed. at St. Edmunds, England. For long engaged in educational work, he afterwards took up journalism. He resides in Isleworth.—(CATH. WHO’S WHO). ⸺ THE KINGS AND THE CATS: Munster Fairy Tales. Pp. 78. Size 6¾ × 9¾ (_Burns & Oates_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Thirteen illustr. by Louis Wain. 1908. Handsomely produced. Preface by Father M. Russell, S.J. Introductory verse by Katharine Tynan. Stories gleaned from old Irish peasants in England. Full of quaint, amusing turns of expression. =HANRAHAN, P. R.= ⸺ EVA; or, the Buried City of Bannow. Mentioned in the notice of this Author in O’Donoghue’s _Poets of Ireland_. =[HARDY, Miss].= ⸺ MICHAEL CASSIDY; or, The Cottage Gardener: a tale for small beginners. (_Seeley_). [1840]. 1845.