LONDON:
PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LD.,
ST. JOHN’S HOUSE, CLERKENWELL, E.C.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “BALLYBEG JUNCTION.”
THE
MERCHANT OF KILLOGUE
A Munster Tale
BY
F. M. ALLEN
AUTHOR OF “THROUGH GREEN GLASSES,” “A HOUSE OF TEARS,”
“IN ONE TOWN,” ETC., ETC.
In Three Volumes.
THE WORLD.
“An inside and intimate picture of Irish life and character, in phases and circumstances which have not, so far as we know, been approached by any other novelist or satirist. The work is not describable, it is not to be indicated by comparison; the very touch of occasional caricature in the election scenes, and in the ‘brigand’ of the story, O’Ruark, which throws out the sheer clear actuality of the people, the places, the ‘ways’; the extraordinary humour of the talk; the jarring of small interests and petty ambitions in the town that is all the world to its inhabitants; the swift stroke of fate and sudden investment of the scene with tragic interest—are Mr. Downey’s own. Mick Moloney’s last ‘few words with the master’ is an incident worthy to be placed beside the famous death scene in the mountain-pass in ‘Tom Burke.’”
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH.
“Vivid and convincing sketches of Irish provincial life abound in ‘The Merchant of Killogue.’... The story is admirably worked up to a surprising and startling dénouement.”