zeal, who would have done much for God if consumption had not already marked him as its victim-engaged the young Rector of St. Munchin's to give a course of sermons on devotion to the Sacred Heart, on all the Fridays of that Lent. I followed them all most carefully, and I have never heard or read anything so satisfactory on the subject. Dr. Fitzgerald urged very earnestly that these discourses should be preserved as a book; and it is a pity that he did not carry his point. I may hereafter try to disinter some notes of this admirable series.

Early in this sketch mention was made of a nine-year old Laurence Kelly, who died on the 3rd of May, 1835, and was the first tenant of the family grave in Glasnevin. His father and namesake (if that be a proper use of the word) joined him there after many years, dying on the 4th of January, 1860, aged sixty-seven years. His sons solaced his dying hours as often as they could, spending most of the night sometimes in travelling to Dublin after their hard day's work in Limerick. To be near them in her desolation, their mother lived for some time in Limerick, where I had the happiness of knowing her ; and there survives a curious little indication of the impression she made upon me. After I had left Limerick, and spent three years between Wales and France, I chanced to read a speech which Theodore Jouffroy made to the pupils of the Collège Charlemagne. Though he was only thirty-nine when he died, he spoke of himself as an old man. "Of the two sides of the mountain of life, my dear pupils, you know one only, the side you are climbing up: it is sunny, it is beautiful, it is full of perfume like the springtime. You cannot see the other sidewith its melancholy aspect, the pale sun that lights it up, the icy shore that it ends in. If we have a sorrowful countenance -si nous avons le front triste, etc." At this point, I interrupted M. Jouffroy to deny that old people had always le front triste; and the two that I thought of as a refutation of the philosopher's statement, were Father Robert Haly, S.J., and Edward Kelly's mother. She was indeed a most cheerful, amiable, and attractive lady, worthy of the devotion lavished on her by her sons. She survived her husband six years, dying on the 17th of March, 1866. "No St. Patrick's Day passed for many years that Father Edward did not come with a basket of flowers for his mother's grave." So writes Mr. J. K. O'Connell, the Superintendent

of Glasnevin Cemetery, in a letter which may be further quoted before its proper time :

"Father Edward was the sunshine of the poor funerals he attended, and the strength and support of all in the hour of need. After my long experience I cannot recall any priest who attended an equal number of funerals, especially of the poor. No pen could describe the loss his death has been to the destitute and lonely, whose wants he ever attended to."

Happily his death was far ahead at the point we have reached; and even the reference to his mother's death has been made prematurely; for in our narrative Father Edward Kelly is still occupying the first post that he filled after his ordination, as Superior of the Jesuits working in Limberick. In August, 1864, he resigned the reins of office into the very capable hands of his most fitting successor, his brother, Father Thomas. During all his Limerick life Father Edward's devotedness to duty, his unwearying kindness, and all his noble qualities of heart and head, had won the affectionate esteem of all classes of the citizens of Limerick, who have never forgotten him. His remembrance of them was vivid and tender to the last. One of the two survivors of the original Limerick community was hapily inspired to write a letter of loving allegiance to his first Rector on St. Edward's Day, October 13th, 1904, not thinking that it was his last opportunity of paying such a homage. Father Edward wrote in reply:-" Your kind and faithful letter was very, very welcome. The remembrances out of which it came are to me very dear and very sweet, though they have their ingredient of sadness. I find myself thinking sometimes that there were not many happier families in the Compagnie at home and abroad, than that little group in the 'corner house '-were not then, nor have been since. . . . It is all a long way back. We were all very young and very bright. God bless you." That was the last word that passed between the first Rector of Limerick and the youngest of his subjects. It was a good word to end with. Is there in all literature a brighter or more amiable story than the one that ends with these words, "And, as Tiny Tim said, God bless us every one" ?

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NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

I. Innocencies. A Book of Verse. By Katharine Tynan. London: A. H. Bullen; Dublin: Maunsel & Co., Ltd. (Price 3s. 6d.)

We have placed together half a dozen volumes of verse to which we intended to devote a good deal of space; but this is impossible in our present issue. Several of these volumes belong to the Vigo Cabinet Series (Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, London). Larger than all these together is the volume containing The Three Resurrections and the Triumph of Maeve, by Miss Eva Gore Booth, who has already proved herself to be far above the clever and agreeable writers of verse so numerous nowadays But the truest and most attractive poetry of the new year is Mrs. Hinkson's Innocencies, which is full of music and tenderness. Many readers, mothers especially, will find it more attractive than any other of the many volumes of poetry that Katharine Tynan has given us. If we could quote samples, they would probably be, "The Meeting," "The Sick Child," and in another mood "To the Mother"-in another mood, for this is not the mother who fills the rest of the book, but Ireland. We still regret that one who has such a command of rhyme and rhythm indulges deliberately, now and then, in rhymes that remind one of Mrs. Browning.

2. Studies in Roman History. By E. G. Hardy, M.A., D.Litt. London: Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd.

Mr. Hardy, who is a Fellow and tutor of Jesus College, Oxford, dedicates his work to his pupils past and present. Only very mature pupils can appreciate the book which has the appearance of a schoolbook, but in reality is a collection of very learned historical essays, many of which appeared in the English Historical Review. Out of sixteen essays the first ten are a second edition of the work entitled, Christianity and the Roman Government. The six additional essays are on cognate subjects. They are all marked by solid and exact learning, and deserve to be described (by a phrase which Mr. Hardy

applies to the writings of three others), as " notable contributions to the scientific study of Roman History."

3. The Priest in the Pulpit. A Manual of Homiletics and Catechetics. By the Rev. Boniface Luebbermann. New York: Benziger. (Price 6s. net.)

The title page informs us that this work has been adapted from the German of the Rev. Ignatius Shuech, O.S.B., by the Rev. Boniface Luebbermann, who is one of the professors at Mount St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati. Father Shuech taught Pastoral Theology for more than thirty years with great success in a German seminary. The present work is only the first part of a treatise which he published with the title Pastoral Theology, which has gone through twelve editions in the original German. The Acta Pontificia, published every month in Rome, has pronounced Father Shuech's work to be the best of its kind. "There is none better suited to our times, none that shows maturer judgment or furnishes more reliable information."

4. The Manchester Guardian in its review of the Life of Sir John Gilbert, says of the book that it "has the style and taste which have for many years made the writings of Rosa Mulholland popular; " and it says of the subject of the book, "he was in truth the founder of what is spoken of as the Gaelic Revival. His purpose is disclosed in his own words: 'One day to come they (the Irish people) will wake up and look round for the authentic facts of their history, and I will work while I live to provide for that day.' All his works were, and were intended to be, the materials for the chapters of such an Irish history as has not yet been written."

5. Messrs. Burns & Oates-it is unnecessary to add their address, 28 Orchard Street, London-are doing excellent service to Catholic literature by bringing out cheap reprints of good books. One of the most important of these is The Throne of the Fisherman, the fifth volume of The Formation of Christendom, by the late Mr. Thomas William Allies. This great and solidly learned work is reissued in independent volumes, price five shillings each. The stores of accurate erudition laid up in them are made more accessible by the admirable table of contents which almost renders the full index at the end unnecessary. For half-a-crown we have the new edition of In the Brave Days of Old, Historical Sketches of the Elizabethan Persecution, by

Dom Bede Camm, O.S.B. Wonderful for sixpence each are the new translation of The Spiritual Combat, and the new edition of the Visits to the Blessed Sacrament, which Cardinal Wiseman wrote when he was only Vicar-Apostolic of the London District. Perhaps this little book has done more for God's glory and his own happiness than his more learned and dignified books from the Horae Syriacae onwards.

6. The great Music Publishers, Novello & Co., of London and New York, have sent us a large collection of their recent publications: "Six Morceaux de Salon pour violon et piano, par Carl Bohm," each 1s. 6d.; three musical plays for children, "The Bee Queen," "The Court Card," and "The Babes in the Wood," for two, three, and four sixpences respectively; Choral Society Vocalisation, Instructions and Exercises in Voicetraining, by J. Stainer, four parts, sixpence each; Score-reading Exercises by Emily Daymond, price is. 6d. ; and A Garland of Songs for Children, price Sixpence. It is a pity that worthy words have so seldom been wedded to music. Writer and composer. are not often so well matched as in the partnership between Gilbert and Sullivan.

The most important of these items are the six excellent pieces for violin and piano by Carl Bohm. As regards the printing, we do not remember to have seen music more clearly and beautifully set forth for each of the two instruments employed. Violinists will find a great advantage in having the entire violin part for each piece confined to the two inside pages, without any turning over of the leaf. The changes, also, of keys, the repetitions, the expression of light and shade, are admirably indicated. We have nothing but praise for the technical skill shown in the harmonies of the piano accompaniments, and the musical form, the tuneful mechanism throughout the whole series. Perhaps the Sarabande, the Valse Study, and the Capriccio Finale will give the greatest pleasure. It may be well to notice two misprints. A flat is inserted for a sharp in the key signatures of the last six lines of the violin part of the Capriccio Finale; and crochets are substituted for quavers in the seventh bar of the fifth page of the piano part of the same composition.

7. The Lay of the Wee Brown Hen, by W. H. Shepheard Walwyn (Longmans & Co.), is a very artistic present for the