l8 Mr. Edward Arnold's AitUimn Announcements. 



TINKER'S HOLLOW. 



By Mrs. F. E. CRICHTON, 



Author of "The Soundless Tide," etc. 



The story moves in a Presbyterian village of Co. Antrim, in 

 Victorian days. Here Sally Bruce's childhood is passed amid the 

 kindly austerity of old servants and an elderly uncle and aunts. 

 Her acquaintance with the Beausires, an old Huguenot family 

 settled in the same county, leads to the discovery of a kindred spirit 

 in Anthony, the last of the line. Their few meetings are the only 

 outward events of her life, and one spring morning in the Tinker's 

 Hollow they realize their love for each other. The genial spinster, 

 Katharine Brough, has found a name for these rare and magical 

 days of life, with their fleeting possibilities, and "the thirty-first of 

 April" brings its sudden opportunity to several people in Tullysillan 

 — to the frail old uncle in the chains of an evil habit, and to John, 

 the minister's son, Sally's playmate and faithful lover. The fear of 

 a hereditary barrier between Sally and Anthony separates them for 

 a time, and John still hopes until Sally finds Anthony's message in 

 the Tinker's Hollow, helping her to wait on until his return with 

 good tidings. Their lives throughout are interwoven with those of 

 the Irish country people — Rachel the old nurse, Mrs. McGovern of 

 the post-office, and the unhappy young schoolmistress, Esther 

 Conway. 



OLD DAYS AND WAYS. 



By JANE CONNOLLY. 

 One volume. Crown Svo. 6s. 

 The Connollys are an old Irish family, who were heart and soul 

 with the rebel movement in Ireland in bygone times. The author 

 has many anecdotes to relate of the old days of '98, and has inherited 

 a respect for the superstitions and legends of her ancestors that 

 enables her to tell many curious stories, ghostly and otherwise, with 

 a strong sense of their reality. Her own early life was passed at 

 Woolwich, where the Dockyard still employed thousands of work- 

 men. There was a very distinctive note about the life of the 

 residents, and the author has described them with a humorous fidelity 

 and skill that often reminds the reader of the characters in Jane 

 Austen's novels. The book is full of homely wisdom, amusing 

 stories, and regrets for the good old fashions which have so rapidly 

 passed away. 



