Fun, frolic, and love in a student’s career. A gay and wholesome novel. Sympathetic picture of Trinity College life. Highly praised by Lionel Johnston. ⸺ THE CONSIDINE LUCK. Pp. 300. (_Swift_). 6_s._ 1912. It was popularly believed that the estate could not pass from Considine hands. Sir Hugh C. dies, and lo! the estate is found to be mortgaged to Mr. Smith, of London. Mr. Smith arrives, and brings with him his English notions which he proceeds to carry out to the disgust of the locality. He refuses all attempts to buy him out, but the Considine luck comes to the rescue, and the estate falls once more into the hands of a Considine. Pleasant, light style. =HOARE, Mrs.= ⸺ SHAMROCK LEAVES; or, Tales and Sketches of Ireland. Pp. 237. (_M’Glashan_). 1851. If one could abstract from the bits of gossipy anecdote intended as links to the principal stories, this book consists of several studies, touching and true to the reality, of the lives of the poor, and in particular of their sufferings during and after the Famine years. Written with much sympathy for the lowly, and a vivid sense of actuality. Most of the tales have a moral, but it does not spoil the story. =HOBHOUSE, Violet.= Born 1864. Eldest daughter of Edmund McNeill, D.L., of Craigdunn, Co. Antrim. Married Rev. Walter Hobhouse, second son of Bishop Hobhouse. She was devoted to Irish traditions, folklore, &c., and could speak Irish, but was a keen Unionist, and in 1887 and the following years spoke much against Home Rule on English platforms. After her death in 1902 a small volume of poems, serious and deeply religious, _Speculum Animae_ was printed for private circulation. ⸺ AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY. Pp. 382. (_Downey_). 6_s._ 1898. ⸺ WARP AND WEFT. (_Skeffington_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1899. “A conscientious rendering of homely aspects of life in Co. Antrim.”—(_Baker_). =HOCKING, Rev. Joseph.= ⸺ ROSALEEN O’HARA. Pp. 352. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 3_s._ 6_d._ and 1_s._ Two illustr. 1913. A product of the Home Rule controversy. The Author is a noted anti-Catholic writer, but he is also a Liberal, and desirous of defending Liberalism from the charge of seeking to establish Rome Rule in Ireland. Home Rule, so reads the story, would mean Rome Rule for some years, but would ultimately lead to the emancipation of the Irish from the thralldom of priestcraft and dogma. The story tells of Denis who unexpectedly discovers that he is heir to an Irish estate, and neighbour of Elenore Tyrone, whom he had seen and loved. A quarrel and the attractions of the beautiful “Fenian,” Rosaleen, separate the two for a time. The Author clearly knows little or nothing of Ireland, but he would like to be benevolent in tone to “dear old beautiful Erin.” By the same Author: _Follow the Gleam_, _The Wilderness_, _The Jesuit_, _The Scarlet Woman_, and some thirty other novels.