JOURNAL OF TBiE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTOiRICAL SOCIETY. 75 A Modem Daedalus pp. 261. London: Griffin, Fa-rran and Oo. (1885). Tom Greer The i111troducition is signed John O'iHallloran, Dublin, 30th Feibruary 1887. A curious story, told in fi'rst person, of a .Donegal Lad who learned the' secret of aerial fUght by watching the sea'~birds. iHe flli,es· over London. Is in the House of Commons fiOr a deibate. Parnell is well described. The way P.ariiament and the Cklvernmen1t and the Press dea'lt with the new invention is cleverly and amrusin:gly .told. Jack, the hero, is imprisoned, but es:capes, and on his return there is a su~cessfuJ Iii.sing in Ireland, who establishes her independence by her air fleet. The book is full of poliit1cs (Niationaiist point of view). An ev1Clti'On scene in Donegal-"The Baittle of Kil:lyilJUre"~is descr~bed. Shrewd s1t"IOkes oif sa·tire are aimed at the Tories throughout. The Old ·Knowledge MacMillan (1901). Stephen Gwynn A book quite unique in concetPtion. II11to the romaruce are woven fishing episodes and cyicling e~riences, with adventures among flowers. There are exquisite glimpses, too, of Irish home life, and the very spirit of the mists and loughs and ril.ounta,ins of Donegal is called up before the Tea'der. But above all there is the mysiti'C coniceiption of Oonroy, the Donegal schoolmaster, whose soul lives with v·isLons, and communes 'With the spirit~ of old, the nature ~ods of pagan Ire~and. JC)hn Maxwell's Marria.ge MacMillan (19{)1). Stephen Gwynn Scene: Chiefly Donegal, c. 1761-1779. A strong and intense story interesting not only for its powerfiul plot, but for the admir1~ble background o·f scenery and manriers and for irts· study of chara1citers. It depicts, in st.rong colours, the tyranny o.f the Oo1:onis1t.s and the hate it prnd,uces in the outcast Oa1tho1ics. One of the main motives of the story is a forced maTiiage of a peculiarly odious kind .... 1the hero fights on the American side in the War of Independence and takes a share in ·the NaitionaList ~chemes a1t home. The Glade in the Forest !IJP. 224. Marnnsel (1907) Stephen Gwynn Seven short stories, chiefly a1bout Donegal, five o:Jl them dealing with peasant. life, of wMch the author writes wit'h intimate and kindly knorwledge. "The GritP of the Liand" desic·r~bes the st·rillggles of a small farmer and-the love of his bleak fields that found no counter1Part in his eldest boy, who has his hear't set on emi:gra'tion. Oom1Pare Bazin's "La Terre qui Meurt." All the stories h.a.d previously ap1pea:red in such magazines ·as the "Oornhill" and ''Blackwoods.'' A So·wer of the Wind pp. 168. Sealy, Bryers (1910). Cabir Healy· Scene: The Donegal coast. A sensatiornal and romantic story. Local Land Le.ague doings d·escr1:bed. The authnr wrLtes of the people with knowledge and sym[pruthy. The, Escapades of Coody Corrigan p.p, 172. Society of the Divine Word. Techny, Ill., U.S.A. (1910). Cahir Healy sic.ene: Done.g1al at some indefinUe period ".a long time ago." A series of comic <"•Pisodes in which condy Corrigan .is the centrtal figure, retold, the .author tells us, frnm memories IQf 1the Seanachies' yarns heard in youth, by a Donegal fireside. They are folk!lorish and picturesque, bu1b1b.ling with wholesome bu1t extravagant humour. Out of eve-ry adventure and s.cralpe and tight cor.ner, condy, tne rogue, comes trimnphant. The diale.c.t is not overdone.
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