THE CABINET OF IEISH LITEEATUEE SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF THE CHIEF POETS, ORATORS, AND PROSE WRITERS OF IRELAND. WITH BIOGEAPHICAL SKETCHES AND LITERARY NOTICES, - CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV. Portrait CHARLES JAMES LEVER From a photograph by Chancellor, Dublin, frontispiece. MRS. S. C. HALL From a photograph by Frankland, London, to face 34 THE RIGHT HON. JAMES WHITESIDE From a photograph by Mayall, London,... 64 SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY From a photograph by Lesage, Dublin, 108 ISAAC BUTT, M.P. From a photograph by OShea, Limerick, 164 THE RIGHT HON. EARL CAIRNS From a photograph by Russell, Chichester, ... 202 THE RIGHT HON. EARL DUFFERIN, K.C.B. From a photo, by Notman, Montreal, JUSTIN MCCARTHY, M.P. From a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Co.,. CHARLES JAMES LEVER 1806-1872, 1 An Irish Legislator of the Olden Time from Charles OMalley, 4 A Fatherand Son from Luttrell ofArran , 9 Song The Irish Dragoon, 12 ,, Mickey Frees PAGE AUBREY T. DE VERE b. isu, 40 Florence MacCarthys Farewell to his English Love, 41 The March to Kinsale, 41 The Intercession, 42 Ancestry, .... 13 Dirge The ManforGalway, 13 The Widow Malone, 13 Bad Luck to this Marching, ... 14 ARCHBISHOP MHALE b. iroi, 14 An Irish Parliament and an Irish Famine from Letters, 15 SIR JOSEPH NAPIER b. isoi, 17 Character of Burke, 18 JAMES GODKIN b. isoe, 19 Ulster in Eighteenth Century from The Land-war in Ireland, 19 ARCHBISHOP TRENCH b. isor, 22 The Poetry of Words from The Study of Words, 22 The Evening Hymn, 24 Some Murmur, 24 JOHN PATRICK PRENDERGAST b. isor, 24 The Clearing of Galway from The Cromwellian Settlement, 24 HON. MRS. CAROLINE NORTON isor-isrr, 26 The Gipsy Girl in Prison from The Child of the Islands, 28 The Child of Earth, 29 The Blind Man to his Bride, 30 The Arabs Farewell to his Steed, .... 30 JOHN EDWARD WALSH . . . ISIG-ISGO, A Tragic Case of Abduction from Ninety Years . . . Ago , Ireland of Rory OMore, 42- Woods 43 The Long Dying, 43 Grattan, 43 The Old Land, 43 The Little Black Rose, 44 JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU isu-isrs, 44 A Narrow Escape from Murder, .... 45 Shemus OBrien, 48 MARMION W. SAVAGE 1823-1872, 51 An Adventurous Couple from The Falcon Family, 51 THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER ms-iser, 54 Speech from the Dock, 55 Nash and the Dragoons from Recollections of Ireland and the Irish, 56 SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON b. mo, The Forging of the Anchor, Una Phelimy, The Fairy Thorn, Willy Gilliland, Pastheen Fion, JAMES WHITESIDE isoe-me, Speech on the Yelverton Case, Speech 58 58 60 61 62 64 64 66 in Defence of Charles Gavan . Duffy, 68 THOMAS DARCY MGEE 1825-1868, The Celts, Memories, Am I Remembered 71 72 73 73 My Irish Wife, 73 Death of the Homeward Bound, .... 74 Home Thoughts, 74 The Death of OCarolan, 74 MRS. S. C. HALL i805-i88i, 34 WILLIAM MCULLAGH TORRENS b. isis, An Irish Tragedyfrom Lightsand Shadows of Irish Life, .... .36 Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb from Biography of Lord Melbourne, 246 306 75 75 WILDE Speranza ,..- To Ireland i . The Year of Revolutions, . imine Year, . AK1US, Related Souls, . . . - MEADOWS TAYLOR im-im 4 1 1 , ,w the Mutiny was Preparedfrom Seeta 84 , THOMAS CAULFIELD IBWIN b. 1823, Lucys Attire, Hymn to Eurydice, Ho.irthSong LAngelo, An Urn, England, Summer Wanderings, .... Sonnet, CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV. .. 90 . 90 . 91 . 91 . 92 . 92 . 92 RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON b. mi, ............. 93 Female Influence and Poetry among the Arabs from Pilgrimages to Mecca, c., 94 JAMES RODERICK OFLANAGAN b. isw, ......... 97 Harry Deane Grady from The Irish Bar, 97 WILLIAM CONNOR MAGEE, D.D. b. 1821, ..........