Bridget’s father is the son of a broken-down shopkeeper somewhere beyond the Shannon, but clings to aristocratic notions. She grows up in London along with “Lennie-next-door,” but her mind outgrows his. She goes to stay W. of the Shannon as secretary to a rich lady. There she becomes engaged to Hugh Delmege, a young landowner. All her yearnings seem fulfilled, yet somehow it is not what she had expected; a short separation from Hugh still further opens her eyes, and she returns disillusioned. This is the bare skeleton: it does not do justice to the philosophy and the style of the book, both of which are remarkable. =CROSBIE, W. J.= ⸺ DAVID MAXWELL. (_Jarrold_). 6_s._ 1902. ’98 from the loyalist standpoint, and adventures in Mexico and South Texas, &c. “David” is “Scotch-Irish.”—(_Baker_, 2). =CROSFIELD, H. C.= ⸺ FOR THREE KINGDOMS. Pp. 241. (_Elliott Stock_). 1909. “Recollections of Robert Warden, a servant of King James.” By a series of accidents the teller finds himself on board one of the ships that raises the blockade of Derry; he escapes and goes to Dublin, where he has exciting adventures. Tyrconnell is introduced—a very unfavourable portrait; and the hero goes through the Boyne Campaign. Told in lively style, with plenty of incident. =CROTTIE, Julia M.= Born in Lismore, Co. Waterford. Educated privately and at the Presentation Convent, Lismore. Contributed to the CATHOLIC WORLD, N.Y., and to other American Catholic periodicals, also to the MONTH, the ROSARY, &c. She resides in Ramsay, Isle of Man. ⸺ NEIGHBOURS. Pp. 307. (_Unwin_). 6_s._ 1900. Pictures of very unlovely aspects of life in a small stagnant town. Twenty separate sketches. Wonderfully true to reality and to the petty unpleasant sides of human nature. The gossip of the back lane is faithfully reproduced, though without vulgarity. The stories are told with great skill. ⸺ THE LOST LAND. Pp. 266. (_Fisher Unwin_). 6_s._ [1901]. 1907. “A tale of a Cromwellian Irish town [in Munster]. Being the autobiography of Miss Annita Lombard.” A picture of the pitiful failure of the United Irishmen to raise and inspirit a people turned to mean, timid, and crawling slaves by ages of oppression. Thad Lombard, sacrificing fortune, home, happiness, and at last his life for the Lost Land, is a noble figure. The book is a biting and powerful satire upon various types of anglicized or vulgar or pharisaical Catholicism (the author is a Catholic). The whole is a picture of unrelieved gloom. The style, beautiful, and often poetic, but deepens the sadness. Thad Lombard, a hundred years before the time, pursues the ideals of the Gaelic League. Period: _c._ 1780-1797.