  A power of, a large number. Bohlan, rag-weed. Loy, a sort of spade peculiar to the west and north-west of Ireland. Lone bush, a hawthorn growing at a distance from all other trees. The lone bushes are dedicated to the fairies, and must not be cut down. Cailee, a visit. Join the world, to marry. To allow, to declare. Gankeynogue, possibly a synonym of leprachaun, used only in the northern districts. A stone barred with fossil reed is said to be the Gankeynogue’s pipe. Fort. The forts referred to are the circular enclosures supposed to have been made, in pre-Christian days, by the Tuatha de Danaan. Breffny, the counties of Cavan and Leitrim, originally part of Connaught, though Cavan is now in Ulster. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh. Price 5s. net. By JAMES STEPHENS AUTHOR OF “THE CHARWOMAN’S DAUGHTER,” ETC. A story of the open air, of deep forests, of rock-strewn pastures, and mountain-tops, and, though the human element is not absent, it deals chiefly with the fairy-folk of old Ireland, with the god Pan, and the great Angus Og. STANDARD.—“There is not another book like this Crock of Gold in English literature. There are many books like pieces of it, but the humour and the style, these things are Mr. Stephen’s own peculiar gift.” PALL MALL GAZETTE.—“A wise, beautiful, and humorous book …. If you could have given Sterne a soul and made him a poet he might have produced The Crock of Gold.” DAILY NEWS.—“The author’s inexhaustible vitality, his happy humour, his eloquence, and his whimsicality will delight a host of readers.” GLOBE.—“To imaginative readers Mr. Stephen’s new work will be an intense and abiding delight …. We feel we have been lifted for a brief space above the ordinary things of life, and come back to earth carrying with us the abiding memory of the rarely humorous and the beautiful. We have read nothing quite like The Crock of Gold. It has a charm and humour peculiar to itself, and places its author high in the ranks of imaginative poetic writers.” LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd. New Six-Shilling Novels MRS. LANCELOT. By Maurice Hewlett. THE HEROINE IN BRONZE. By James Lane Allen. A REGULAR MADAM. By Alice Wilson Fox. VAN CLEVE. By Mary S. Watts. EDWARD FAIRLIE FRANKFORT, or Politics among the People. By Sir Henry Wrixon, K.C. THE STRANGER AT THE GATE. By M. O. Wright. Illustrated. LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd. Original Back Cover. |
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