Contains:—Lover’s _Legends and Tales of Ireland_ (twenty-four in all), and Croker’s _Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland_. “Croker and Lover,” says W. B. Yeats, “full of the ideas of harum-scarum Irish gentility, saw everything humourized. The impulse of the Irish literature of their time came from a class that did not—mainly for political reasons—take the people seriously, and imagined the country as a humorist’s Arcadia; its passion, its gloom, its tragedy they knew nothing of. What they did was not wholly false; they merely magnified an irresponsible type, found oftenest among boatmen, carmen, and gentlemen’s servants, into the type of a whole nation, and created the Stage-Irishman.”—(Introd. to _Fairy and Folk-tales of the Irish Peasantry_). =LOWRY, Frank M.= ⸺ THE DUBLIN STATUES “AT HOME”: A New Year’s Tale. 4to. (_Sealy, Bryers_). Illustr. with Seven Cartoons. 1912. =LOWRY, Mary.= ⸺ THE ENCHANTED PORTAL. Pp. 142. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ Paper. _c._ 1910. Scene: Antrim coast, whose scenery is vividly pictured. A novel of romance, intrigue, and adventure, pleasant and healthy in tone, but fanciful and somewhat unreal. Author has also written _The Clans of Ireland_, _Old Irish Laws and Customs_, and _The Story of Belfast_. =“LYALL, Edna”; Ada Ellen Bayley.= Was born and educated at Brighton, and resided there and at Eastbourne. Her first story, _Won by Waiting_, appeared in 1879. Titles of eighteen of her books are to be found in Mudie’s LIST. ⸺ DOREEN. Pp. 490. (_Longmans_). Various prices from 6_d._ to 6_s._ [1894]. 1902. Doreen, daughter of an old ’48 man and Fenian, and herself an ardent Nationalist, is a professional singer, but helps the Home Rule cause by her singing. The chief interest is a love story, but in the background there is the national struggle and a vivid picture is drawn of the feelings of those engaged on both sides. The author is on the nationalist side, and the most striking figure in the book is Donal Moore, a Nationalist member. The first ed. was dedicated to Gladstone. =LYNAM, Col. William F.= Belonged to the 5th Royal Lancashire Militia. Lived at Churchtown Ho., Dundrum, 1863-87, and then at Clontarf till his death in 1894. He was a Catholic and a man of much piety. He lived a very retired life. ⸺ MICK McQUAID.