_By Shan F. Bullock_
“Irish Pastorals” is a collection of character sketches of the soil—of
the Irish soil—by one who has lived long and closely among the laboring,
farming peasantry of Ireland. It is not, however, a dreary recital of
long days of toil with scanty food and no recreation, but it depicts
within a life more strenuous than one can easily realize, abundant
elements of keen native wit and irrepressible good nature. The book will
give many American readers a new conception of Irish pastoral life, and
a fuller appreciation of the conditions which go to form the strength
and gentleness of the Irish character. (12mo, $1.50.)