⸺ CHAPTERS OF COLLEGE ROMANCE. Pp. 344. (London). 1863.
A reprint of stories that first appeared in the Dublin University Magazine, some of them as far back as 1834. The purpose and character of these stories is well described in Preface:—“When I say that these pages are the romance of truth, I mean that they are true.... I am very sure that if I succeed in simply bringing before the reader’s eyes the life and the death of many whom I myself remember gay and light-hearted.... I shall have done something towards impressing on his mind the lesson, ‘remember thy Creator.’” He tells us also, “I was much, very much longer an inmate of Alma Mater than falls to the average of her sons.” Five Stories, tragic for the most part, viz. I. “The Billiard Table” (ruinous results of gambling.) II. “Reading for Honours” (a harrowing story of the fatal results of jealousy). III. “The Mariner’s Son.” IV. “The Murdered Fellow; an incident of 1734.” V. “The Sizar,” “a story of a young heart broken in the struggle for distinction.”
⸺ CHILDREN OF SORROW.
An obituary notice in, I think, the Irish Times describes this as Butt’s first essay in fiction, but the book is not in the British Museum Library, and I have been unable to trace it.
BUXTON, E. M. Wilmot-, [see WILMOT-BUXTON].
[BYRNE, E. J.]. Author of Without a God.
⸺ AN IRISH LOVER. Pp. 271. (Kegan Paul). 6s. 1914.
A melodrama full of plot and murder and hair-breadth escape, in which the hero wins his way to the heroine through unheard of perils from swindlers, assassins, jealous rivals, and all the other dramatis personæ of melodrama. Yet the hero and heroine start with a peaceful youth in Tipperary as members of the small farmer class. Parents oppose the match, and the hero goes to Dublin, where he falls into the hands of a gang of desperadoes. Then the scene shifts to America, to return to Ireland only for the wedding bells of the close. The Irish peasant at home is appreciatively described, his intense spirit of faith being dwelt on.
CADDELL, Cecilia Mary, 1814-1877.
⸺ NELLIE NETTERVILLE; or, One of the Transplanted. (N.Y.: Catholic Publication Co.). 1878.