A melodrama full of plot and murder and hair-breadth escape, in which the hero wins his way to the heroine through unheard of perils from swindlers, assassins, jealous rivals, and all the other _dramatis personæ_ of melodrama. Yet the hero and heroine start with a peaceful youth in Tipperary as members of the small farmer class. Parents oppose the match, and the hero goes to Dublin, where he falls into the hands of a gang of desperadoes. Then the scene shifts to America, to return to Ireland only for the wedding bells of the close. The Irish peasant at home is appreciatively described, his intense spirit of faith being dwelt on. =CADDELL, Cecilia Mary=, 1814-1877. ⸺ NELLIE NETTERVILLE; or, One of the Transplanted. (N.Y.: _Catholic Publication Co._). 1878. “A tale of Ireland in the time of Cromwell.” =CALLWELL, J. M.= Mrs. Callwell, a member of the famous family, the Martins of Ross, Galway, is a frequent contributor to BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE, and Author of _Old Irish Life_, 1912. ⸺ A LITTLE IRISH GIRL. Pp. 240. (_Blackie_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Four good pictures by Harold Copping. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.25. 1908. Scene: West of Ireland. The doings and adventures of a lot of very natural and “human” children, particularly the bright, wild little heroine, and Manus, a typical English-reared schoolboy. Peasants seen in relation to better class, but treated with sympathy and understanding. No moralizing. =CAMPBELL, Frances.= A county Antrim woman. ⸺ LOVE, THE ATONEMENT. Pp. 345. (_Digby, Long_). 6_s._ Second edition. 1902. A very pretty and highly idealized little romance of marriage, with a serious lesson of life somewhere in the background all the while. It opens—and closes—in an old baronial mansion somewhere in the West of Ireland, but the chief part of the action passes amid vice-regal society in Australia. Two quaint Australian children furnish delightful interludes. =CAMPBELL, J[Iain] F., of Islay.= ⸺ POPULAR TALES OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS. Four Vols., containing in all cxxxi. + 1743 pp. (PAISLEY: _Gardner_). [1861]. New edition, an exact reprint of first, 1890. Handsome binding. Ranks among the world’s greatest collections of folk-lore. Of great scientific value to the folk-lorist, for each tale is “given as it was gathered in the rough.” (Preface). Moreover, the table of contents gives, besides title of story, name of teller and of collector, date and place of telling. Most, if not all of the stories are in origin Irish. The Gaelic text is given along with translation. Exceptionally interesting Introduction—untechnical, pleasantly written, and full of curious information. =CAMPBELL, J. F.= ⸺ THE CELTIC DRAGON MYTH. Pp. li. + 172. (EDINBURGH: _Grant_). 6_s._ net. Good illustr. in colour by Miss R. A. Grant-Duff. 1911.