Memoir of Author by D. J. O’Donoghue, pp. v.-xxxiii. He was a self-educated Midlands peasant, who lived in the first half of the last century. This miscellany consists of (_a_) Six tales of the Rockites, the brutal doings of a secret society that flourished about 1830; (_b_) Legends and tales of the peasantry of Queen’s County and North Munster; (_c_) Pp. 289-446, “Gleanings in the Green Isle,” a series of letters written in 1846 to DOLMAN’S, a London Catholic magazine, which deals with Irish country life, and are interspersed with stories; (_d_) Pp. 493-552, Poems. =KEIGHTLEY, Sir Samuel R.= B. Belfast, 1859. Son of S. Keightley, of Bangor, Co. Down. Ed. Queen’s Coll., Belfast. Contested Antrim as Indep. Unionist (1903), and S. Derry as Liberal (1910). Member of Senate of Queen’s Univ. Resides in Lisburn, Co. Antrim. Other works:—_A King’s Daughter_, _The Cavaliers_, _Heronford_, &c. ⸺ THE CRIMSON SIGN. Pp. 189. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._, and 6_d._ (N.Y.: _Harper_). 1.50. [1894]. Adventures of a Mr. Gervase Orme, “sometime lieutenant in Mountjoy’s (Williamite) regiment of foot,” previous to and during the siege of Derry. The story is told with great verve, and is full of romantic and exciting adventure. There is little or no discussion of politics, and no bitter partisan feeling. ⸺ THE LAST RECRUIT OF CLARE’S. (_Hutchinson_). (N.Y.: _Harper_). 1.50. [1897]. 1908. A stirring and exciting story of the Irish Brigade in Jacobite days, told in bold, dashing style. Strong pro-Jacobite feeling. Part of the story takes place at Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, the rest on the Continent—Tournay, Fontenoy, &c. Madame de Pompadour is one of the historical personages. ⸺ THE PIKEMEN. Pp. viii + 311. Well illustrated. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1903. The supposed “narrative of Rev. Patrick Stirling, M.A., of Drenton, Sangamon Co., Ill., U.S.A., formerly of Ardkeen, Co. Down,” telling his experiences in the Ards of Down (district between Strangford Lough and the sea) during the rising. Presbyterian-Nationalist bias. Strong character study. Faithful descriptions of scenery. The study of the Government spy is especially noteworthy. ⸺ A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. Pp. 319. (_Long_). 1906. A swaggering young bravo—a faint imitation of Barry Lyndon—tells his adventures in Dublin and on the Continent in the days of the drinking, gambling, out-at-elbows squireens (end of eighteenth century). The hero is thus described:—“I should like to have seen the man who at cards, drinking punch, riding or selling a horse, deludhering a woman, or winging his man had any advantage of Rody Blake” (p. 12). A facetious, swashbuckler tone is adopted throughout. ⸺ RODY BLAKE. The preceding book seems to have been publ. also under this title, or possibly this is a sequel, but I failed to come across it, in spite of much research.