⸺ TIVOLI. Pp. 278. (CORK: _Guy_). 1886. A family story (landlord class) laid first at Deer Park, near Cork, afterwards in England, whither the family retires to be out of the Land League agitation. This last is referred to with evident aversion. The interest turns largely on a mystery of identity. The Author knows the Cork district well, and describes localities accurately. Her sympathies are clearly not nationalist. The religious attitude is one of tolerance. =LAWLESS, Hon. Emily.= B. in Ireland, 1845. Eldest d. of Lord Cloncurry. Came to know the W. of Ireland through her associations with the home of her mother’s family. Her mother was a Miss Kirwan, of Castle Hackett, Co. Galway. _See_ Miss Lawless’s _Traits and Confidences_ for some memories of her childhood. She went a good deal among the people in her natural history excursions. She had wide knowledge of Irish history, as her volume on _Ireland_ in the History of the Nations Series bears witness. She wrote several books besides those here noted. D. 1913. For a good article on her _see_ NINETEENTH CENTURY, July, 1914. ⸺ HURRISH. Pp. 342. (_Methuen_). [1886]. 1902. Scene: a wild and poverty-stricken district in Clare. A view of the bad days of the ’eighties by one to whom the Land League stands for “lawlessness and crime.” The people are depicted as half-savage. The story is a gloomy one, full of assassinations and the other dark doings of the Land League. The picture it gives of an Irish mother will jar harshly on the feelings of most Irishmen. The Irish dialect is all but a caricature. Yet the story met with an immediate and extraordinary success. In a vol. publ. by Mr. Gladstone in 1892, _Special Aspects of the Irish Question_, he says of _Hurrish_, “She has made present to her readers, not as an abstract proposition, but as a living reality, the estrangement of the people of Ireland from the law.... As to the why of this alienation, also, she has her answer (p. 309 of first ed.), ‘The old long-repented sin of the stronger country was the culprit.’ She thinks there was a sin, a deep sin, and (so I construe her) an inveterate sin, but a sin now purged by repentance.” ⸺ WITH ESSEX IN IRELAND. Pp. 298. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ [1890]. New ed., 1902. A narrative of Essex’s Irish expedition, 1599, purporting to be related by his private secretary. Pictures Elizabethan barbarity in warfare. It has a strange element of the uncanny and supernatural. Hints at the spell that Ireland casts over her conquerors. Written in quaint Elizabethan English which never lapses into modernness. ⸺ GRANIA: the Story of an Island. (_Smith, Elder_). 3_s._ 6_d._, and 2_s._ 6_d._ [1892].