Scene: a country village in the West of Ireland. Father Anthony is a young priest, who for his brother’s sake has sacrificed a career in the world to devote himself to God’s poor. He finds himself called upon in virtue of his sacred office to keep the secret of the confessional when by a word he could save his brother from the hangman’s hands. The pathos of the young priest’s agony of mind is depicted with great power and sympathy. The other priest, Father John, is drawn as the true parish priest of the old type, blood and bone of the people, jovial, homely, lovable and beloved. The Author, though alien in faith and race, tells us that he knew intimately and loved both priests and people during his stay in Ireland. ⸺ THE PEEP-O’-DAY BOY: A Romance of ’98. (_Dicks_). 6_d._ _n.d._ A conventional sensational tale, little above the “shilling shocker,” with oath-bound societies meeting in under-ground caverns, abductions, informers, an absentee landlord, the Earl of Dromore, whose daughter loves the expatriated owner, The O’Connormore, and soforth. The three chapters on the insurrection are from Cassell’s _History of Ireland_. The story is scarcely worthy of this Author. =BUCKLEY, William.= Born in Cork, and educated there at St. Vincent’s Seminary and the Queen’s College. His first literary work appeared in MACMILLAN’S MAGAZINE. Resides in Dublin. ⸺ CROPPIES LIE DOWN. Pp. 511. (_Duckworth_). 6_s._ 1903. Scene: Wexford, the year of the rising. The Author banishes all romance and artistic glamour, and deals with the horrors of the time in a spirit of relentless realism. Quite apart from historical interest, the book is thrilling as a story of adventure. The tone is impartial, but the writer clearly means the events and scenes described to tell for the Irish side. The NEW IRELAND REVIEW says that “it sketches the origin and course of the Wexford insurrection with a conscientious accuracy which would do credit to a professed historian”; and it praises the Author’s “exceptional literary ability” and the “intense reality of his characters.” “Rather more than justice is done to the English authorities (_e.g._, Castlereagh), to the Irish Protestants, and even to the government spies.”—(_Baker_, 2). ⸺ CAMBIA CARTY AND OTHER STORIES. Pp. 230. (_Maunsel_). 1_s._ 1907. Close descriptions of lower and middle classes in modern Youghal. In places will be unpleasant reading for the people of Youghal. Picture of Cork snobbery decidedly unfavourable to Cork people, and on the whole disagreeable and sordid. =BUGGE, Alexander=, Professor in University of Christiania, ed. ⸺ CATHREIM CELLACHAIN CAISIL: The Victorious Career of Cellachain of Cashel. Pp. xix. + 171. (_Christiania_). 1905.