The Irish Monthly (Volume 30) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: beautiful study of Aubrey de Vere's drama, Alexander the Great. The wielder of the brilliant pen to which we owe " Old Times in the Barony," among the publications of the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, has much to answer for in letting it lie idle so long. Another anonymous contributor to our volume for 1873 was Dr. C. W. Russell, President of Maynooth, who does not even mark with his initials his " Jottings from a Greek Prayer-book." " The Summons to the Council," namely, the Vatican Council, follows this paper. This very spirited poem is signed W. K.?that is, Father William Kelly, S.J., the eldest of three gifted brothers. In this volume appear, for the first of many times, the initials S. A., Mrs. Sarah Atkinson, whose name we write with reverence, affection, and gratitude. Page 219 of our first volume is occupied by a very graceful lyric about Luggelaw. The M. O'F. who wrote it was the Rev. Michael O'Ferrall, S.J., whom some still remember with affection for his amiable qualities and with respect for his varied attainments. The initials J. M. O'R. stand for Miss Julia O'Ryan, at the end of one of the most humorous sketches that ever brightened our pages?"Nancy Hutch and her Three Troubles." The same pleasant pen has, a little later, an ingenious paper on the " Uses of Hope and the Pleasures of Adversity," which is immediately followed by some delicious blank verse, "By the Seaside." No one but myself could discover the author of this poem from the letters H. L. appended to it. These are, indeed, the initials signed to several exquisite vignettes in our recent volumes; but this second H. L., who has hidden herself in the happy silence of Carmel, was not born till many years after the birth of our Magazine. H. L., at the remote date to which we have gone back, were not...