| + | Outlook. 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 100w. |
Lysaght, Sidney Royse. Her Majesty’s rebels. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–35217.
“Back in the days of tumult and shouting, of bitter strife and fostered crime, of no-rent manifestos and coercion bills, Her Majesty’s rebels, led by one of the greatest political leaders of the century, had Ireland in a ferment.” (Ath.) In this time of unrest the story has its setting, and the hero is Parnell in the disguise of Michael Desmond, “a notable hero, compounded of giant strength and strange weakness—a man, in fact, and a man full of magnetic force to draw men and women to him, now the victim of a passion he would not stop to control, now cold, reserved, and unscrupulous.... It is seldom we are given a picture of the Ireland of the early eighties half so finished, or so just as Mr. Lysaght’s.” (Ath.)
“Few Irish books of such good parts have come into our hands since Carleton’s days, for few authors hold the balance so accurately or write so restrainedly and so simply as Mr. Lysaght, content to fill their pages with the moving figures of men, animated by the spirit of life itself.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 188. F. 23, ’07. 590w. |
“Compelling story.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 136. My. ’07. |
“The worst fault, indeed, of the story is a certain want of what journalists style actuality.”