This is the third volume of a Catholic author's literary reminiscences, "Twenty-Five Years" and "The Middle Years" having preceded it. Mrs. Hinkson now continues her entertaining recollections from 1913 to the last year of the war. The book is full of anecdotes about such literary folk as Father Matthew Russell, "A. E.," Lord Dunsany, W. B. Yeats, Francis Ledwidge, etc., describes intimately the life led by the author at Claremorris, County Clare, where her husband was a resident magistrate, and the names of the notables ...
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This is the third volume of a Catholic author's literary reminiscences, "Twenty-Five Years" and "The Middle Years" having preceded it. Mrs. Hinkson now continues her entertaining recollections from 1913 to the last year of the war. The book is full of anecdotes about such literary folk as Father Matthew Russell, "A. E.," Lord Dunsany, W. B. Yeats, Francis Ledwidge, etc., describes intimately the life led by the author at Claremorris, County Clare, where her husband was a resident magistrate, and the names of the notables she met during the past few years are joined with pleasant reminiscences. Though Mrs. Hinkson did not witness the Rebellion of Easter Week, she has put into her book two good accounts of it, one by a country priest who happened to be in Dublin at the time, and the other by John Higgins, a gifted young Irishman, who was an onlooker, but not a sharer of the revolt. Mrs. Hinkson herself is far from being a Sinn Feiner and seems to regard Easter Week and its consequences as one of Ireland's greatest misfortunes. But the vast majority of her countrymen, and of those in every other land allied to them by race or lineage, undoubtedly consider that revolt as the heroic beginning of a movement that will not end till Erin is free. The author's numerous English friends and admirers, many of whom bear titles, have perhaps made it hard for her to be a Sinn Feiner. Mrs. Hinkson finds "The Genesis of the Rebellion " in the wretched condition of the Dublin poor and in the great strike of 1913. She gives a vivid description of life in the slums, with their "decent" population, the "outcasts" of which "are probably as respectable as you, and of a higher degree of virtue." "Holy Ireland" shines out in her account of the Lough Derg Pilgrimage. "When you leave the island you feel that you have spent four days in heaven, and when you look round on the faces of your fellow-passengers you feel that they have been there too." The author's pages are rich in amusing anecdotes about the Irish priesthood and glowing tributes to their worth. She remarks: "There can be very little serious criticism of them as priests and men, though one may criticize if one is against them in politics. Their conduct is practically beyond reproach. They are the best of men and Irishmen." Mrs. Hinkson was very busy with her pen during that three years' stay in Mayo. Besides writing nine novels, she finished "Lord Edward: a Study in Romance," two volumes of reminiscences, three volumes of poetry, two school-books and a great number of short stories and articles. This untiring industry kept her and her family from worrying about the war for before peace came she had two sons in the British army. The reason why the Titanic struck the iceberg, by the bye, is at last known. It seems that the pious Ulstermen who built that ship scrawled on every sheet and plank of the vessel, "To Hell with the Pope!" so she was doomed to destruction from the very start. - America , Vol. 21
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