BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.

With Etched Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.

The myth tales included in this volume were collected personally by the author, during 1887, in the west of Ireland,—in Kerry, Galway, and Donegal,—and taken down from the mouths of men who, with one or two exceptions, spoke only Gaelic, or but little English and that imperfectly. To this is due the fact that the stories are so well preserved, and not blurred and rendered indistinct, as is the case in places where the ancient Gaelic language, in which they were originally told, has perished.

CONTENTS.

Introduction. The Son of the King of Erin and the Giant of Loch Léin. The Three Daughters of King O’Hara. The Weaver’s Son and the Giant of the White Hill. Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island. The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The Three Daughters of the King of the East and the Son of a King in Erin. The Fisherman’s Son and the Gruagach. The Thirteenth Son of the King of Erin. Kil Arthur. Shaking-Head. Birth of Fin MacCumhail. Fin MacCumhail and the Fenians of Erin in the Castle of Fear Dubh. Fin MacCumhail and the Knight of the Full Axe. Gilla na Grakin and Fin MacCumhail. Fin MacCumhail. the Seven Brothers, and the King of France. Black, Brown, and Gray. Fin MacCumhail. Cucúlin. Oisin in Tir na n-og.

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NOTICES.

Mr. Curtin is the first to give to the public a volume of Irish popular tales which may justly be ranked with the best recent collections of popular tales in Germany, France, and Italy.… A delightful book alike for the scholar and general reader.—The Nation.