=NEVILLE, Elizabeth O’Reilly.= ⸺ FATHER TOM OF CONNEMARA. (N.Y.: _Rand, McNally Co._). $1.50. Illustr. [1902]. 1903. Rural life in W. of Ireland. =NEVILLE, Ralph.= ⸺ LLOYD PENNANT: a Tale of the West. Two Vols. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1864. First ran as a serial in “Duffy’s Hibernian Magazine,” 1863. Well-written and exciting melodrama, with a good plot, but very quiet and plain in style. The hero, who bears an assumed name, and is really heir of an old Anglo-Irish family, joins the British navy. He is unjustly accused of disloyalty and intimacy with Lord Edward Fitzgerald. But all ends well, including his love affair with Kate Blake, daughter of a family that plays a principal part in the story. The Humbert invasion is touched upon, especially the Castlebar “Races.” There is a good deal about the ways of gombeen men and middlemen in the West. Sympathies national. Wrote also _The Squire’s Heir_, 1881. =NEWCOMEN, George.= ⸺ A LEFT-HANDED SWORDSMAN: a Romance of the Eighteenth Century. Pp. 239. (_Smithers_). 6_s._ 1900. The life and doings of Cicely Grattan and of her adopted son Victor La Roche, a noble and generous youth, brave and skilled in sword-play—examples respectively of womanly virtue and manly character. The interest centres chiefly in Cicely’s wrecked love affairs and in Victor’s successful ones. Abundance of incident sustains the interest throughout, and the book gives a fairly good picture of society in the Dublin of the day, with not a little reference to its loose morals. =NEWTON, W. Douglas.= ⸺ THE NORTH AFIRE. Pp. 204. (_Methuen_). 2_s._ 1914. Sub-t.: “A non-political story of Ulster’s war.” By a Catholic Conservative. =NOBLE, Mrs. Nicholas; [Madge Irwin].= ⸺ DRUIDEAN THE MYSTIC, and Other Irish Stories. Pp. 93. Sq. 12mo. (DUNDALK: _W. Tempest_). 1_s._ 6_d._ 1913. Three little stories, only the last of which has a definite plot, and a poem. They deal with peasant life. They are told in a dialect which is not very sure of itself nor very true to reality. The nine little illustrations by J. E. Corr and the excellent printing and general get-up make the book very dainty. =NOBLE, E.= ⸺ AN IRISH DECADE. Pp. 110. (_Digby, Long_). _n.d._ (1891).