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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME I.

JUSTIN MCCARTHY, M. P.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of IRISH LITERATURE.
Photogravure from a portrait from life.

ON THE OLD SOD

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Frontispiece

"The Irish Farmer in Contemplation," by William Mc-
Grath. From the painting in the Metropolitan Museum
of Fine Art, New York.

This famous picture of a familiar Irish scene, painted by an
Irishman, is a conspicuous and favorite object in our national
collection.

LONDONDERRY

From a photograph.

The walls of Derry-the maiden city, its fine Gothic cathe-
dral, and the Doric column erected to the memory of the Rev.
G. Walker are full of interest. The tower is of great antiquity
and has often suffered the effects of war, notably when it was
fruitlessly besieged by King James from Dec., 1688, to Aug.,
1689. This picture shows-

the water running from the green hills of Tyrone.
Where the woods of Mountjoy quiver above the changeful river."
-Mrs. Alexander.

JOHN BANIM

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From an old engraving.

JANE BARLOW.

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From a photograph taken in 1904 by J. F. Geoghegan of
Dublin.

DROGHEDA

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From a photograph.

This famous old town stands on both sides of the river Boyne.
It has been the scene of many wars and much bloodshed. The
story of the awful massacre under Cromwell is vividly told by
Father Denis Murphy in Volume VI. of ‘IRISH LITERATURE.'

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In the character of "Daddy O'Dowd" in his play of that
name. From a photograph.

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From a drawing after the painting by Mrs. Seymour Lucas,
which told the " Story of Childe Charity."

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From a photograph by J. Caswell Smith in London, taken in 1891 for the Alpine Club.

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At either side of the principal entrance to Trinity College,
Dublin, are the statues of Burke and Goldsmith, both by John
Henry Foley.

IRISH LITERATURE.

CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER.

(1818-1895.)

MRS. ALEXANDER was born in Dublin in 1818 and died in 1895. She was the daughter of Major John Humphreys. She came early under the religious influence of Dr. Hook, the Dean of Chichester, and subsequently of John Keble, who edited her Hymns for Little Children.'

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In 1850 she married William Alexander, the protestant Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, who after her death collected and edited her poetical works.

As a writer of hymns and religious verse she has enjoyed a wide reputation, and she has written some vigorous poetry on secular subjects. Her poem on 'The Siege of Derry' is a fine example of her mastery of language and of rhythm.

Gounod remarked that the words 'There is a green hill far away' were so harmonious and rhythmic that they seemed to set themselves to music. When her Burial of Moses' appeared, anonymously, in 1856, in the Dublin University Magazine, Tennyson declared it to be one of the few poems by a living author that he would care to have written. Her poems have been published with an introduction by her husband under the title 'Poems of the late Mrs. Alexander.'

THE BURIAL OF MOSES.

By Nebo's lonely mountain, on this side Jordan's wave,
In a vale, in the land of Moab, there lies a lonely grave;
And no man knows that sepulchre, and no man saw it e'er;
For the angels of God upturned the sod, and laid the dead man
there.

That was the grandest funeral that ever passed on earth;
But no man heard the trampling, or saw the train go forth—
Noiselessly, as the Daylight comes back when Night is done,
And the crimson streak on ocean's cheek grows into the great

sun

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