Three  girls,  brought  up  in  poverty  by  a  governess  in  London,  migrate  to
Galway  to  occupy  the  castle,  pending  the  discovery  of  the  missing  heir.  The
latter  turns  up,  but  is  not  what  he  was  thought  to  be,  and  there  are  complica-
tions. The  girls  hear  a  great  deal  of  folk-lore  and  legend  from  the  servants
and  from  the  peasantry.
CYNTHIA'S    BONNET   SHOP.      (Blackie).      55.    Eight  illustr.  by  G.
Demain  Hammond,  R.I.
"  Cynthia,  daughter  of  an  impoverished  Connaught  family,  wants  to
support  a  delicate  mother.  She  and  her  star-struck  sister  go  to  London,
where  Cynthia  opens  a  bonnet  shop.  How  they  find  new  interests  in  life
is  told  with  mingled  humour  and  pathos." — (Pitbl.).
GIANNETTA  :  A  Girl's  Story  of  Herself.      (Blackie).     35.     Six  full -page

illustr.  by  Lockhart  Bogle.
"  The  story  of  a  changeling  who  is  suddenly  transferred  to  the  position
of  a  rich  English  heiress.  She  develops  into  a  good  and  accomplished  woman,
and  has  gained  too  much  love  and  devotion  to  be  a  sufferer  by  the  surrender
of  her  estates." — (Publ.).
THE   RETURN   OF  MARY   O'MURROUGH.     Pp.282.    (Sands).    2s.
(N.Y.  :  Benziger).     0.75.     [1908].     Cheap  ed.,  1915.
Illustrated  by  twelve  exceptionally  good  photos  of  Irish  scenery  and  types.
Scene  :  near  Killarney.  The  girl  comes  back  from  the  States  to  find  her  lover
in  jail,  into  which  he  had  been  thrown  owing  to  the  perjury  and  treachery
of  some  of  the  police.  We  shall  not  reveal  the  sequel.  The  story  is  told  with
a  simplicity  and  restraint  which  render  the  pathos  all  the  more  telling.  It  is
faithful  to  reality,  deeply  Catholic,  and  wholly  on  the  side  of  the  peasantry,
of  whose  situation  under  iniquitous  laws  a  picture  is  drawn  which  can  only
be  described  as  exasperating.
