Edited by JAS. GAIRDNER. A New Issue in three styles. _3 vols., Foolscap 8vo. Paper label and cloth, 16s. net; Cloth gilt, 16s. net; Half-vellum, 21s. net._ The Principles of Local Government By G. LAURENCE GOMME. _Demy 8vo, cloth gilt._ The Pupils of Peter the Great By J. NISBET BAIN. With Portraits. _Demy 8vo, cloth gilt._ Fidelis and other Poems By C. M. GEMMER. _Foolscap 8vo, cloth gilt._ A Tale of Boccaccio and Other Poems By ARTHUR COLES ARMSTRONG. _Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 5s. net._ Songs of Love and Empire By E. NESBIT. _Crown 8vo, cloth gilt._ FOOTNOTES: [1] In Gaelic, the name of Lir’s daughter is _Fionnghuala_, and is variously given in English as Fionula, Fionnuola, Finoola, and Finola. [2] Now Loch Derravaragh, in West Meath. [3] That is, between the north-east of Ireland (the Giant’s Causeway) and the south-west of the Scottish Highlands (the Mull of Cantire). [4] The Tailcen: a name given by the early Irish to St. Patrick. [5] Coineag, Gaelic for “rabbit.” The common English equivalent, Bunny, is a Gaelic derivative, from _Bun_, a stump or tail. [6] St. Patrick. (Druidic name.) [7] With the advent of St. Kemoc, the story comes within historical times. Lairgnen and Finghin were kings of Connaught and Munster, who flourished in the seventh century A.D. [8] It was the wont among the early Celtic peoples to bury their dead erect, particularly in the case of kings, and great warriors, and sons and daughters of kings. [9] _i.e._, from the north of Norway to the coasts of Denmark. [10] Probably Isberna is Hispania (Spain), and the apples the golden apples of the Hesperides. [11] _Alba._ That is, Gaelic Scotland, and in particular Argyll. [12] _Naois_ in the old Irish Gaelic. [13] Ulster. [14] This song, adapted to Macha, is founded upon a portion of the poem by Coel O’Neamhain, in honour of a beautiful queen named Crede, as translated by Professor Sullivan and others. [15] Given as in the Gaelic: _ciugear agus tri fichead agus tri chead_. Large numbers are in Gaelic invariably built up thus (instead of, for example, as here, four hundred and sixty). In an old Irish-Gaelic version the particular number here is given as “five and three score above six hundred and one thousand” (_i.e._, 1,760). [16] In old Irish Gaelic, _Derdriu_, then _Deirdrê_, sometimes _Darethra_. In Scotland, _Dearduil_ (pronounced Dart’weel, Darth-uil, or “Darthool,” whence Macpherson’s “Darthula,” who rather loosely says the name is _Dart’huile_, a woman of beautiful eyes). The oldest name is said to signify alarm. [17] The Gaelic original is _Beanchaointeach (Banchainte) Conchubhar fein_, etc., and means literally Concobar’s Conversation-woman, which perhaps might be rendered as “gossip.”