In the title story we have two attempted suicides of parents distraught with grief, the return of a former convict, and an inheritance for the people who were dying with hunger. Dublin is the scene. The next story, “Grace Kennedy,” takes place in the Queen’s Co.: a mother murders her boy, the sister holds the corpse to the fire and “nestles beside him.” In “The Foundling” the mother drowns herself, but some charitable Protestants rescue her child and bring him up in their religion. “Ellen Seaton” tells how Ellen’s father goes off to be a priest and her mother to be a nun, and deals with the efforts made by priests and nuns to get hold of her. Finally she converts her nun jailer and both escape. In some of these stories the Author introduces very vulgar brogue, with coarse expressions. =CRAIG, Richard Manifold=, 1845-1913. Born in Dublin, and educated there. He entered the army as surgeon, and retired with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. His other works of fiction—_A Widow Well Left_, _All Trumps_, _A Sacrifice of Fools_, &c.—do not deal with Irish subjects. ⸺ THE WEIRD OF “THE SILKEN THOMAS.” Pp. 230. (ABERDEEN: _Moran_). 1900. The story of how Lord Thomas Fitzgerald was drawn into revolt by the treachery of a private enemy. Purports to be a narrative written at the time by Martyn Baruch Fallon, “scrivener and cripple,” a loyal inhabitant of Maynooth, with some account of the latter’s private affairs. Written in quaint, antique language difficult to follow, especially at the outset of the book. It seems of little value from an historical point of view. ⸺ LANTY RIORDAN’S RED LIGHT. I am not certain whether this story appeared in book form. It is not in the B. Museum Library. =CRAIG, J. Duncan, D.D.= ⸺ BRUCE REYNALL, M.A. Pp. 271. (_Elliot Stock_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1898. Author of “Real Pictures of Clerical Life in Ireland,” and of several learned works. A story of an Oxford man who came to Ireland as _locum tenens_ in the most disturbed time, and found life a good deal more exciting than at his English curacy. The Orangemen are very favourably represented. In the preface to the following work the Author says of this, “The Reign of Terror which prevailed in Ireland while the horrors of the Land League were brooding over the land, and a picture of which I have endeavoured to delineate in _Bruce Reynall_.” ⸺ REAL PICTURES OF CLERICAL LIFE IN IRELAND. Pp. 351. (_Elliot Stock_). [1875]. 1900.