National Characteristics as Molding Public Opinion, fr. the American Commonwealth' 331 The Position of Women in the United States, fr. the American Commonwealth' National Music, fr. a Lecture on 'The National The Preternatural in Fiction, fr. 'The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night' LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME I. JUSTIN MCCARTHY, M. P. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of IRISH LITERATURE. ON THE OLD SOD PAGE Frontispiece "The Irish Farmer in Contemplation," by William Mc- This famous picture of a familiar Irish scene, painted by an LONDONDERRY From a photograph. The walls of Derry-the maiden city, its fine Gothic cathe- the water running from the green hills of Tyrone. JOHN BANIM xvii 44 From an old engraving. JANE BARLOW. 98 From a photograph taken in 1904 by J. F. Geoghegan of DROGHEDA 150 From a photograph. This famous old town stands on both sides of the river Boyne. In the character of "Daddy O'Dowd" in his play of that 192 252 From a drawing after the painting by Mrs. Seymour Lucas, From a photograph by J. Caswell Smith in London, taken in 1891 for the Alpine Club. At either side of the principal entrance to Trinity College, 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.' 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, That was the grandest funeral that ever passed on earth; sun |