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1 SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF THE CHIEF 
The Cabinet of POETS, ORATORS, AND PROSE WRITERS OF 
IRELAND. Edited by CHARLES A. READ, F.R.H.S., 
Irish Literature: and KATHARINE TYNAN HINKSON. In 4 vol- 
umes, super-royal 8vo, cloth extra, gilt edges, price 8s. 6d. net each. 
As there is an Irish Nationality, so there is an Irish Literature, in 
which that Nationality has found expression. And what a magnifi- 
cent Literature it is! how brilliant the roll of Irish writers from Swift, 
Steele, and Goldsmith, to Sheridan, Grattan, Moore, and the score of 
gifted men and women who are identified with the present renaissance 
of Irish letters! 
THE CABINET OF IRISH LITERATURE is an attempt to give every 
Irishman, every Irish household, a share in the priceless treasures 
with which the literary genius of the race has enriched mankind. 
It brings within the compass of a single great work a representative 
selection of all that is best in irish Literature. Not, be it said, the 
old Irish Literature in the old Irish tongue; of that most is unknown 
to the people itself, though a good deal of it, in translation, wil -be 
found in this book. By Irish Literature is meant the Literature read 
and understood by the Irishmen of the present day—the expression 
of the ideas they really feel, of the life they truly live, in Mayo, in 
Limerick, in Cork, and in Derry. 
It is a selection made without fear or favour, free from any bias, 
religious, political, or social. Merit is the only passport to its pages. 
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It gives, in brief pointed biographical notices, the life-history of 
every great Irish writer. We are enabled to realize the personality of the man as well as appreciate the 
qualities of his work. A 
It deals not only with the past but with the present; and it is the only work that brings home to us by 
illustrative extracts the great revival in Irish Literature that is now taking place. W. B. Yeats, Douglas 
Hyde, George Bernard Shaw, Nora Hopper, Seumas MacManus, Richard Ashe King, George Egerton, Moira 
O'Neill, are a few among the many scores of modern writers whose works are represented in the CABINET. 
No Irishman who is proud of his nationality can afford to be without a work which thus focuses the 
whole intellectual activity of the race. To the younger generation it will be an inexhaustible source of in- 
spiration, a priceless influence in forming their taste, in moulding their character—in a word, in perpetuating 
those qualities which now, as in the past, are associated with the name of Irishman. 
The CABINET was originally planned by Mr. Charles Anderson Read, but this accomplished Irish poet and 
novelist did not live to see the fruition of his hopes. His work was 
completed by Mr. T. P. O'Connor, under whose auspices the first 
edition was issued. Now, after the lapse of nearly a quarter of a 
century, the time has come for a new edition of this monumental work, 
which shall take due account of the extraordinary activity in Irish 
‘etters during the intervening years. Under the able editorship of 
Miss Katharine Tynan (Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson), herself one 
of Ireland's most distinguished writers, the work has been thoroughly 
revised and brought down to the present hour. 
In its get-up it is all that a book of its great importance should be. 
The illustrations are many and of the highest artistic value. Some of 
the most eminent black-and-white artists of the day, including John 
HH. Bacon, Charles M. Sheldon, W. Rainey, R.I., G. P. Jacomb- 
Hood, R.I., and W. H. Margetson, have been commissioned to illus- 
trate typical scenes from the masterpieces of our literature, and these 
drawings, rendered by the latest processes of photographic reproduc- 
tion, and printed on specially prepared paper, add an unique charm 
to the work. The CABINET is further embellished with a large num- 
ber of ‘photographs of the most eminent Irish writers; and the cover 
design, in gold upon green cloth, is the work of Talwin Morris, the 
well-known designer. F, Frankfort Moore 
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