Period: last years of Elizabeth’s reign. Scene: the country of O’Sullivan Beare, the south-west corner of Cork. Weaves the battle of Kinsale and the siege of Dunboy into the story of the young O’Sullivan, Ulrick. Full of vividly presented details of the public and private life of the time, and of novel and suggestive presentments of its political and social ideals. These it brings home to the reader as no history could do. Yet the story is not neglected. Standpoint: impartial, on the whole. ⸺ IN THE WAKE OF KING JAMES. Pp. 242. (_Dent_). 4_s._ 6_d._ 1896. A wild and nightmare-like tale. Scene: a lonely castle on the west coast inhabited by a gang of Jacobite desperadoes. Contains no historical incidents. ⸺ FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE. Pp. 298. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [_Lawrence & Bullen_, 1897]. New ed., 1908. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.10. The historical episode of the kidnapping of Hugh Roe O’Donnell and his escape from Dublin Castle evoked in a narrative of extraordinary dramatic power and vividness. The Author has breathed a spirit into the dry bones of innumerable contemporary documents and State Papers, so that the men of Elizabethan Ireland seem to live and move before us. The effect is greatly strengthened by the vigour and rush of the style, which reminds one of that of Carlyle in his _French Revolution_. The Author has peculiar and decided views about Elizabethan Irish politics. “The authorities for the story,” he tells us in his Preface, “are the _Annals of the Four Masters_, the _Historia Hiberniæ_ of Don Philip O’Sullivan Beare, O’Clery’s _Life of Hugh Roe_, and the _Calendar of State Papers, Ireland_, from 1587 forward.” =O’GRADY, Standish Hayes.= B. 1832, Co. Limerick. Was a fluent Irish speaker, and his knowledge of the language and of Irish traditions was, according to those who knew him, unrivalled. Evidence of this will be found in his _Catalogue of the Irish MSS. in the British Museum_, never finished, but, as far as it goes, a mine of Gaelic lore. Was one of the founders of the Ossianic Society. D. 16th October, 1915. ⸺ SILVA GADELICA. Two Vols. Demy 8vo. (_Williams & Norgate_). 1892.