FOOTNOTE:[1]A report of a lecture delivered in the spring of 1907 at the Hibernian Academy, Dublin.
[1]A report of a lecture delivered in the spring of 1907 at the Hibernian Academy, Dublin.
[1]A report of a lecture delivered in the spring of 1907 at the Hibernian Academy, Dublin.
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Miss Purdon here tells the story of one of the little street urchins who swarm and play on the steps of the tenements in the faded Georgian thoroughfares of Dublin. Realism and sentiment combine to make this novel one which will move and interest every reader who has felt the pathos and humour of the city waif.
WRACK AND OTHER STORIES. By Dermot O’Byrne. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.
These half-dozen tales of Ireland, ancient and modern, are in that peculiar vein of historic realism which set the author’s “Children of the Hills” apart from the average book of Irish short stories. The Syngesque vigour and raciness of Mr. O’Byrne’s idiom gives a quality to his writings which is absent from that of his contemporaries.
A GARDEN BY THE SEA. By Forrest Reid. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. net.
The author of “The Bracknels” and “Following Darkness” has brought together a volume of short stories marked by the distinction which has characterised his previous novels of Irish life.