1893.

18mo, pp. xii and 212. Cloth.

CONTENTS.

Poem: Time drops in decay. Originally appeared, under the title The Moods, in The Bookman, Aug., 1893.

The Host. Originally appeared under the title The Faery Host, in The National Observer, October 7, 1893.

This Book.

A Teller of Tales. A part of this essay originally appeared in the introduction to Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, 1888.

Belief and Unbelief. A part of this essay originally appeared in an essay Irish Fairies in The Leisure Hour, October, 1890.

A Visionary. Originally appeared, under the title An Irish Visionary, in The National Observer, October 3, 1891.

Village Ghosts. Originally appeared in The Scots Observer, May 11, 1889.

A Knight of the Sheep. Originally appeared, under the title An Impression, in The Speaker, October 21, 1893.

The Sorcerers.

The Last Gleeman. Originally appeared in The National Observer, May 6, 1893.

Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni.

Kidnappers. Originally appeared in The Scots Observer, June 15, 1889.

The Untiring Ones.

The Man and his Boots.

A Coward.

The Three O’Byrnes and the Evil Faeries. Originally appeared as part of an essay Irish Fairies in The Leisure Hour, October, 1890.

Drumcliff and Rosses. Originally appeared, under the title Columkille and Rosses, in The Scots Observer, October 5, 1889.

The Thick Skull of the Fortunate.

The Religion of a Sailor.

Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth and Purgatory.

The Eaters of Precious Stones.

Our Lady of the Hills. Originally appeared in The Speaker, November 11, 1893.

The Golden Age.

A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the disposition of their Ghosts and Faeries. Originally appeared under the title Scots and Irish Fairies in The Scots Observer, March 2, 1889.

The Four Winds of Desire.

Into the Twilight. Originally appeared, under the title The Celtic Twilight in The National Observer, July 29, 1893.