A Land of Battles. By ARTHUR W. Fox. With Illustrations De Quincey as Self-pourtrayed. By LAURENCE CLAY Ashbourne and Dr. Johnson. By JOHN MORTIMER. Music and Memory: Verses. By THOMAS NEWBIGGING . Le Sage and the Picaresque Romance. By EDMUND MERCER . The Green Hedge: A Poem. By WILLIAM E. A. AXON. A Vanished Bower. By ARTHUR W. FOX Notes on Japan and the Japanese. By ABEL HEYWOOD. With The Original D'Artagnan. By EDMUND MERCER Henry Vaughan, Silurist. By Rev. W. C. HALL Bibliographical Notes to Vaughan's Poems. By J. H. SWANN On an old Volume of the "Spectator." By JOHN MORTIMER. PAGE 357 370 376 383 Axon (W. E. A.) Green Hedge: Green Hedge: A Poem. By W. E. A Poem. 160. Bagshaw (Wm.) 188. Bagshaw (W.) A. Axon. 160. Ernest Dowson. Hall (W. C.). Henry Vaughan, In a certain Garden : 93. Butterworth (W.). Pearl. 125. Silurist. 288. Hall (W. C.). Poetical Works of Heywood (James) Notice of. By Japan and the Japanese. By A. Clay (L.). De Quincey as Self- Johnson (Dr. S.) and Ashbourne. pourtrayed. 26. Club Old Border Club. By J. E. Craven. 105. Land of Battles. By A. W. Fox. 1. Craven (J. E.). Old Border Club. Le Sage (A. R.) and the Picaresque Romance. By Edmund Mercer. 62. 105. D'Artagnan, Original. By Edmund Life: Verses. By S. Bradbury. 198. Fox (A. W.). Vanished Bower. 162. Milner (Geo.). Shakespeare's Method of Work. 315. Gerard (John). Vanished Bower. Milner (Geo.). Verses Written at By A. W. Fox. 162. Porthleven. 215. Mortimer (John). Dr. Johnson. Ashbourne and Romance, Picaresque. By Edmund 54. Mercer. 62. Mortimer (John). Old Volume of Shakespeare (W.). Method of Work. By Geo. Milner. 315. the "Spectator." 357. Mortimer (John) Shap Fells: An Shap Fells. By John Mortimer. Redfern (B. A.). Suburb. 199. By Fox. 1. Sonnet. By Wm. Bagshaw. 92. Sutton (C. W.). James Heywood. 143. Swann (J. (J. H.). Bibliographical Notes on 313. Vaughan's Poems. Swindells (T.). Market Street, Manchester. 244. Traherne (Thomas). Poetical Works. By W. C. Hall. 376. Unsolved: A Painting. By Tom Mostyn. 1. Vanished Bower. By A. W. Fox. 162. 313. Vaughan (Henry) Bibliographical Shields. 103. By F. J. Manchester Walton (Izaak). Essay on. By W. Butterworth. 93. By Hy. Plummer. 81. Richardson (J. J.). George Gissing. Wordsworth (W.) "Lucy" Poems. 236. THE HE Province of Connaught is a veritable land of battles; the tombs of prehistoric heroes lie along the wind-swept hills and over cultivated fields, in sequestered valleys and on the margin of lonely lakes. The town of Sligo is the central point, around which fierce conflicts have raged from the earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century. Within a few miles of one another may be seen perhaps the finest collection of ancient stone monuments in Europe, the camp of Cromwellian soldiers, and the memorial erected to the leaders who fell in the '98, whose tattered flags hang on the walls of Calry Church. Every lake has its crannog, most of which have been too thoroughly explored to leave any trace of their primitive inhabitants to the present-day antiquary. Giants' graves are to be found along the highway, and earthern raths are so numerous that it is by no means easy to remember each. Stone cashels are set in commanding positions, while abbeys of all kinds, from the rude remains on Inismurray to the noble ruins of Creevellea and Sligo, recall a past of many centuries. Of Creevellea there is a tradition that it was never roofed over owing to the terror of the approach of Cromwell, who, however, seems never to have reached Sligo. Older stories of a still older past A |