WORKS by DOUGLAS HYDE, LL.D. (An Chraoibhin Aoibhinn).
“LEABHAR SGEULUIGHEACHTA.”
viii—261 pp., 8vo. Price 5/-. Gill & Son, O’Connell Street, Dublin.
Containing some sixteen Folk Tales, Riddles, Ranns, &c., in Irish, with copious Notes on the Pronunciation, Vocabulary, and Dialect.
“The multitude of characteristic idioms and of those charmingly expressive turns of speech which one meets with daily among the peasantry is so great as to make the work a perfect treasure-house of rich jewels of thought.... Dr. Hyde deserves well, not only of his country, but of all scientific investigators and philologists.”—Freeman’s Journal.
“This is the most noteworthy addition that has been made for nearly a century to modern Gaelic literature.”—Chicago Citizen.
“His collection of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories is the fruit of years of pious work. He has travelled into every corner of Ireland where the old tongue still lingers, gathering from the mouths of the Irish-speaking peasants the olden stories that linger among them.”—Nation.
“BESIDE THE FIRE.”
lviii—204 pp., large 8vo. Price 7/6. David Nutt, Strand, London.
Containing Folk Tales and Fairy Stories in Irish and English, collected from the mouths of the peasantry. With Introduction and Notes, and additional Notes by Alfred Nutt.