KENNY, M. L.
⸺ THE FORTUNES OF MAURICE CRONIN. Three Vols. (Tinsley). 1875.
A very long novel with a very complicated plot and without a trace of brightness or of humour. The plot turns chiefly on a case of mistaken identity. Maurice returns from soldiering in India to find that he is really heir to the estates of the Grace family, and can marry Mary Grace, his cousin, whom his putative mother had thought to be his sister. No national interest. Date 184-. Places such as Deverell’s Chase, Desmond’s Tower, Rathcroghan, are mentioned.
KERR, Eliza.
⸺ SLIEVE BLOOM. Pp. 153. (Wesleyan Conference Office). Three illustr. 1881.
A little non-controversial Methodist story for young people. Tells (in the present tense throughout) how May and Willie lived a very poor life with their maternal grandmother, but by the coming of their father’s mother were raised to better circumstances. Nice descriptions of Mountmellick, the Bog of Allen, and Slieve Bloom.
⸺ KILKEE. Pp. 193. (Wesleyan Methodist School Union). Third ed. 1885.
A moral and religious (but not controversial) tale. Adventures of two boys near the Pollock Hole Rocks, Kilkee, the scenery around which is well described. On all occasions the boys quote Scripture texts, and the piety of the personages concerned is constantly insisted on.
⸺ KEENA KARMODY, &c.: A Tale. Pp. 192. (Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Union). 1887.
Also The Golden City, Hazel Haldene, and four or five others.