A little non-controversial Methodist story for young people. Tells (in the present tense throughout) how May and Willie lived a very poor life with their maternal grandmother, but by the coming of their father’s mother were raised to better circumstances. Nice descriptions of Mountmellick, the Bog of Allen, and Slieve Bloom. ⸺ KILKEE. Pp. 193. (_Wesleyan Methodist School Union_). Third ed. 1885. A moral and religious (but not controversial) tale. Adventures of two boys near the Pollock Hole Rocks, Kilkee, the scenery around which is well described. On all occasions the boys quote Scripture texts, and the piety of the personages concerned is constantly insisted on. ⸺ KEENA KARMODY, &c.: A Tale. Pp. 192. (_Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Union_). 1887. Also _The Golden City_, _Hazel Haldene_, and four or five others. =KETTLE, Rosa Mackenzie.= ⸺ ROSE, SHAMROCK, AND THISTLE. Pp. 286. (_Fisher, Unwin_). 6_s._ 1893. “A Story of two Border Towers.” Rhoda Carysfort, an Irish girl, comes to live with her English cousins, and eventually marries a Scotch laird. Except for the heroine’s nationality there is nothing Irish about the story, though the Author’s sympathies are with Ireland. The tone is very “respectable” and somewhat prim. It seems intended as a book of instruction for girls. =KICKHAM, Charles J.= B. Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary, 1828. Began early to write for nationalist papers—THE NATION, THE CELT, THE IRISHMAN, THE IRISH PEOPLE. Most of his contributions were verse, but to THE SHAMROCK he contributed his chief novels. He threw himself into the Fenian movement, was arrested along with John O’Leary, and sentenced to fourteen years’ penal servitude. His health never recovered from this period of prison. He died in 1882 at Blackrock, near Dublin. See the short _Life_ by J. J. Healy, publ. 1915 by Messrs. Duffy. Besides the novels mentioned below, Kickham wrote the following short stories:—“Poor Mary Maher” (a sad tale of ’98); “Never Give Up,” “Annie O’Brien,” “Joe Lonergan’s Trip to the Lower Regions” (Irish life in the fifties, dealing largely with land troubles); “White Humphrey of the Grange: A Glimpse of Tipperary fifty years ago”; “Elsie Dhuv” (a story of ’98, full of incident, much of it humorous). These tales have been collected for publication in the near future by Mr. William Murphy, of Blackrock. K. knew thoroughly and loved intensely his own place and people. He had wonderful powers of observation and a great fund of quiet humour. ⸺ SALLY CAVANAGH. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1869]. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.75. New ed. 1902.