THE

IRISH MONTHLY.

A Magazine of General Literature.

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

TWENTIETH YEARLY VOLUME.

1892.

DUBLIN:

M. H. GILL & SON, OCONNELL STREET.

LONDON: BURNS AND OATES; SIMKIN MARSHALL, AND CO.

In a Sandy Land. By Frances Maitland
The Stake, a Queen. An Irish Legend. By M. C. Kelly
The Blue Cap. A Tale of Leinster. By Mrs. F. Pentrill
A Little Boy and a Little Girl. By Mary Hayden, M.A.
Kitty's Delinquencies. By Jessie Tulloch

How the Question was Answered. By Mary Hayden, M.A.
Margery Kenrick's Diamonds. By Eleanor C. Donnelly
Won by Worth. A Tale. By Attie O'Brien.

Dr. Russell, of Maynooth. Memorial Notes. By the Editor.

John George MacCarthy, Andrew J. MacKenna, James M'Carroll
Renan's Beginnings and End. By J. C. M.

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Our Poets:-

Parliamentary Life to one of the Rank and File. By Alfred Webb, M.P.

The Book of the Rhymer's Club. By H. W.
May and December: A Coincidence. By C. H.

A Layman's Charity Sermon. By the late Judge O'Hagan
About Roses. By Rosa Mulholland

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Anonymities Unveiled. IX. Contributors to Duffy's Magazine
About Ghosts. By Rosa Mulholland

Some Episodes of the American Civil War. By M. A. C.
Children's Game-Songs. By Rachel Busk

The Irish Exile's Home-sickness. By Rosa Mulholland
The Dialect of the Barony of Forth. By C. W. Russell, D.D.
Impressions of Tennyson. By P. A. S.

Ere the Steamer Sails. By Magdalen Rock

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS.

Mr. J. T. Gilbert's Jacobite Narrative of the Irish Wars.-Dr. R. R. Madden's

Memoirs.-Ireland and Saint Patrick.-Liberatore's Political Economy.-

Continuity or Collapse?—The Heir of Liscarragh.-Tom Playfair.—The

Correct Thing for Catholics.-Sundry Periodicals, etc., etc.

Theological Essays. By Rev. Edmund O'Reilly, S.J.-Moments before the

Tabernacle.-The Tug of War.-The Trial of Margaret Brereton.-

Journey of the Magi Kings.-Maxims of Blessed Margaret Mary.—

Watchwords from John Boyle O'Reilly

Ceremonies of some Ecclesiastical Functions.-Manual of Church History.—

The Banshee and Other Poems. - Christianity and Infallibility.-Memo-

rials of Cardinal Manning.-The Journal of the Cork Historical and

Archæological Society.—The American Messenger of the Sacred Heart.—

The Holy Coat of Treves.-Nouet's Meditations.-How to get on, etc.,

etc.

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The Wit and Wisdom of Blessed Thomas More.-Churchyard Flowers. --Mo-

ments before the Tabernacle.-The Children's Corner.-Biographical

Dictionary of Irish Poets, &c., &c.

Birthday Book of the Madonna.-Flute and Violin.-Good English for Be-

ginners.-Sayings of Cardinal Manning.-Thoughts and Teachings of

Lacordaire.-Mariana.-The Sinless Conception of the Mother of God.—

Aquinas Ethicus.-Christian Anthropology.

Monsieur Henri.-Slavery and Serfdom in Europe.-Mary Queen of May.-

The Sack of Sollier.-Moments before the Tabernacle.-Father Edmund

O'Reilly's Critics.-My Great-Aunt's Story.-Iona.-Lays of Country,

Home, and Friends.—Songs of Arcady.---Henry VIII. and the English

Monasteries.-Arcadia and other Periodicals.

Conversations with Carlyle.-M'Dermott's Sermons.-Lucan Spa.-Stead's

Index to Periodicals.-Verses on Doctrinal and Devotional Subjects.-

English Illustrated Magazine-Salve Regina, etc., etc.

Letters on Archbishop Ullathorne.-Phases of Thought and Criticism.-Spiri-

tual Counsels for the Young.-The Conversion of the Teutonic Race.--

Auguste Comte, sa Vic et sa Doctrine.-Christianity and Infallibility.-

Both or Neither.-Spirit af St. Ignatius.-History of the Church in Eng-

land, Everybody's Pocket Cyclopædia.-Father Goloma's Tales.—

Spanish Legends-Ouina.-St. John Berchmans.

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The National Songs of Ireland.-The Irish in Great Britain.-O'Donoghue's

Poets of Ireland.-Chapters towards the Life of St. Patrick.-The Mis-

sion of St. Catherine and Other Poems.-An Idyl of the Spring.-Critics

of Miss Mulholland's Spiritual Counsels.-The Human Life of Jesus.-

Some American Magazines and Others.- Familiar Answers, etc., etc. 500