Published in U.S.A. by the John Lane Co., N.Y., under the title of _The House of a Thousand Welcomes_ (price 1.50), this being the name of a boarding house in New York opened by Mr. and Mrs. Dunleary and their daughter Didy, who have emigrated from Cork. The story is chiefly concerned with the lodgers in this house—the eccentric Dr. O’Dowd, a journalist, and the son of a big landlord in Ireland—all of whom fall in love with Didy. The last named is successful, and he makes the journalist, a Protestant named Healy (the remainder of the personages are Catholics), editor of the principal Irish Unionist paper, which he owns, in order “to make it a message of peace to all Ireland.” The author avoids religious or political bias, and tells a merry, good-humoured story. =“LISTADO, J. T.”= ⸺ MAURICE RHYNHART. Two Vols. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1871. “Or, A few passages in the life of an Irish rebel.” The hero, descended from a Williamite soldier, “in every respect the very model of a respectable young Protestant,” is a clerk in Selskar (Wexford) and in love with Miss Rowan, socially much above him. An ardent young Irelander, he joins the local branch and works might and main for the movement. Soon he is “on his keeping,” but escapes to London. There he marries Miss Rowan. After many hardships they go to Australia, where he rises to be Premier and is knighted. Returns, and is made M.P. for Selskar. Reminds one of the career of Sir C. Gavan Duffy. Splendidly told, the interest never flagging. Protestant dissenting tea-parties hit off cleverly. The whole atmosphere of the critical summer of ’48 is reproduced with vividness and fidelity. Dialogue good and characterisation life-like. =LOCHHEAD, A.= ⸺ SPRIGS OF SHILLELAH. Pp. 158. (DUNDEE: _Leng_). 1907. 6_d._ Sixteen humorous sketches, “founded on fact—more or less,” reprinted from the PEOPLE’S FRIEND. =LOGAN, J.= ⸺ THE McCLUSKY TWINS. Pp. 112. (_Drane_). 1912. 1_s._ A tale of twin tomboys, who provide gossip for an Ulster countryside. Dialect well handled.—(I.B.L.). =LOUGH, Desmond.= ⸺ THE BLACK WING. (_“Ireland’s Own” Library_). 6_d._ _n.d._ (1914). A story of secret societies and of revenge. Scene: Kerry and Corsica. Unconvincing, but unobjectionable. ⸺ RED RAPPAREE. Pp. 179. (_“Ireland’s Own” Library_). 6_d._ _n.d._ Thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes of Cahir Ronayne, who has taken to the road in revenge for his father’s execution. A fair lady is involved, also a dissolute lord, and there are plenty of plots and counter plots, duels and combats. =LOUGHNAN, Edmond Brenan.= ⸺ THE FOSTER SISTERS. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). 1871.