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Even Sir Samuel Ferguson's great poem, "Conary," not to be confused with Congal- a fine but heavy work - cannot be got for less than seven shillings and sixpence, though his poeticallY unimportant Patrician Papers is buyable for a shilling. 19 Yet, to my mind, "Conary" is the best poem in modern Irish literature, and Aubrey de Veret has said just the same. 20 Mr. O'Grady, in his Dublin letter to The Daily Graphie, has been criticizing the Irish wolf hounds at the Royal Dublin Societies' show, from the standpoint of a specialist in the bardic literature.
Carlyle's poem, "under German eaves,"t and Miss Ryan hers maybe on the benches of her own village chapel; yet both are alike in being a little sentimental. Indeed Miss Keeling is not a litde sentimental, but very much so. There is scarcely anything in the world she would not drop a tear on. Miss Ryan can write very prettily sometimes, as thus: On earth and sky and far-off sea, I t is a lovely tender hour: A sweet virgin crowned with gracious power. 18 The notion ofheaven sharing somehow the more gentle changes of earth receives a new thought and a pleasant one.
15 Campbell was an imaginative man and a good writer, but his long introduction leaves me at any rate rather bored. Mr. Curtin is not less scientific, but the whole science of folk-lore has grown more imaginative these last twenty years. To the old folk-Iorists, fables and fairy tales were a haystack of dead follies, wherein the virtuous might find one litde needle of historical truth. Since then Joubainville and Rhys l6 and many more have made us see in all these things old beautiful mythologies wherein ancient man said symbolically all he knew about God and man's soul, on ce famous religions fallen into ruin and turned into old wives' tales, but stilliuminous from the rosy dawn ofhuman reverie.