THE

IRISH MONTHLY.

A Magazine of General Literature.

EDITED BY THE REV. MATTHEW RUSSELL, S.J.

SEVENTEENTH YEARLY VOLUME,

1889.

DUBLIN:

M. H. GILL & SON, O'CONNELL STREET.
LONDON: BURNS AND OATES; SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO.

CONTENTS.

STORIES.

Barefut Sally. By Frances Mary Maitland

Paddy Shea's Fireside. By John Francis O'Donnell

Jean Wilson. A Memory. By Frances Mary Maitland

A Little Pilgrim. By the Same

Molly's Fortunes. By M. E. Francis

CHAPTER I. Wanted an Heir

II. Sent on Approval

III. Castle O'Neill

IV. Social and Political..

V. New Experiences

VI. Life at the Castle

VII. Mrs. Mackenzie's Diplomacy

VIII. Settlements

XV. A Peep at "The Lady's Jewel"

SKETCHES OF PLACES AND PERSONS.

The Death and Letters of Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee. By the Editor
The Rapt Culdee. By S. A. ..

A Walk in the Hartz Mountains, By Alfred Webb

Our Poets:-

No. 21-Ellen O'Leary. By Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
No. 23-John Todhunter. By the Editor

No. 23-William Butler Yeats. By Rosa Mulholland
No. 24-John Howard Payne. By the Editor

The late Father O'Carroll, S.J. By M. R.
St. Brigid's Birthplace By M. M'G.

St. Patrick and the Monastery of Lerins. By Marion Mulhall
Mary Redmond, the Young Irish Sculptor. By Rosa Mulholland
Sketches in Irish Biography :-

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No. 16-Rev. Charles Patrick Meehan. By the Editor
No. 17-Kathleen O'Meara. By the Same

No. 18-Sir John O'Shanassy. By D.

Cardinal Ximenes. By the Rev. C. W. Russell, D.D.

Boulogne the Despised. By Mrs. Frank Pentrill

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A Western Heroine. By the Author of Leaves from the Annals of the

The Story of an Orange Leaf.

By M. R.

By A. W.

The Fruits of the Holy Ghost. By the Rev W. A. Sutton, S.J.

Landscape Painting and Amateurs. By Montagu L. Griffin. 129, 187,261,300,592
The Sonnets of an Irish Nun.

Bishop Alexander's Poems. By Dene Bernards

On Villanelles and other Metrical Villainies. By the Present Writer

Some Notes on the Building of a Play. By John Littlejohn

A Missing Chapter (Mistresses and Servants). By Susan Gavan Duffy
Irish Painters in this year. By Rosa Mulholland

Anonymities Unveiled :-

I. Introductory

II. Signatures in The Nation

III. The Nation and The Cell

IV. The Irishman, The Shamrock, &c.

V. Miscellaneous Irish Literary Signatures

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Greengages. By James Britten, F. L.S.

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Miss Ryan's "Songs of Remembrance." By D. Moncrieff O'Connor

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS.

Mrs. Piatt's New Poems.-Mrs. C. Martin's St. Jerome.-Lady M. Domville's
Lamartine.-Thomas Moore's National Airs.-Miss Mulholland's English
Critics.—Cardinal Manning's Miscellanies.-Annals of the Sisters of
Mercy.-Miss Howitt's St. Anastatia.—Catholic Family Annual.--Burns
and Oates' New Publications

W. B. Yeats' “Wanderings of Oisin.”—Eucharistic Gems.-True Spouse of
Christ.-Mary of Nazareth.-New Fairy Tales.-Brian Boru.-Dr. Lee's
King Edward VI.-Leaves from St. John Chrysostom.-Ullathorne's
Characteristics.-English Catholics of 1715.-Irish Schools.-The Grey
Lady of Hardcastle

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Dr. Cahill's Letters, Lectures, and Speeches.-St. Alphonsus' Prayerbook.
F. Genelli's Life of St. Ignatius.-Le Lelan's Way of Interior Peace.-
Rogacci's Christian Reformed.-American Catholic Quarterly.-Book
Chat
Lessons from Our Lady's Life.-A Study of Cardinal Newman's Grammar of
Assent.-The Wandering Knight.-Thoughts of Many Hearts.—The
Book of the Professed. -Catéchisme du Patron.-The "Saturday Review"
on Yeats' Poems. -Barry O'Brien's Life of Drummond. - Quadragesima.
-Fordham Monthly.-Stonyhurst Magazine.-Our Alma Mater
Dr. M'Evilly on the Gospel of St. John.-Tales by Mrs. Dorsey.--New
Edition of the Ritual.-Father Gallwey's Thoughts on Apostolic
Succession.-"Our Lady's Last Christmas."-Herder's New Publications
---Little Nell.—Thoughts of Many Minds.-Lessons from Our Lady's
Life -Eaton's Leaflets.—A Cycle of Verse.-The Strange Adventures of
Little Snowdrop, and Other Stories, &c.
Dr. M.Devitt's Introduction to Scripture.-The Usher Memoirs -The Red-
haired Man's Wife.-Eily O'Hartigan.-Aubrey de Vere's Essays,
Literary and Ethical.-Authorised Edition of Sir Charles Russell's Speech
before the Parnell Commission.-Old English Catholic Missions.—
American Ecclesiastical Review.-The Castle and the Manor.-Railway
Stations' Handbook.-Esoteric Buddhism.-Mr. C. L. Murray's Benediction
Music.-A Spiritual Man.-Life of John Mitchel.-Father Rowland.—
The Felon Literature of Ireland, &c.
Eugene Davis's Poems.-Leaves from the Annals of the Sisters of Mercy.—
Merry Hearts and True.-Benziger's New Publications.-The Fordham
Monthly.-Georgetown College Gazette.-Rev. M. Russell's First Friday
Hymn. Mr. Washbourne's Publications.-Sweet Thoughts about Jesus
and Mary.-Mary of Nazareth, Part II., &c.
Archdeacon O'Rorke's History of Sligo.-The Ave Maria.-An Epic of Dawn.
-Funeral Discourses on E. M. K. Devas.-Life of St. Bonaventure.-
Catholic Truth Society.-The P.P. Index.-Morgan's Campion.-St.
Adamnan's Columba, &c. ..
Margaret Ryan's Songs of Remembrance.-E. H. Hickey's Verse-Tales and
Lyrics.-Fr. Devine's Convent Life.-The Shan Van Vocht.-C. T.
Society's New Publications.-St. Mary Magdalen. - Douglas Hyde's
Folk-Lore, in Irish.-Garden of Divine Love, etc.-Kingdom of God.—
Lays and Lyrics of the Pan-Celtic Society

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