Grania Waite. By Fulmar Petrel. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—The life and
the predatory warfare of the west of Ireland in the sixteenth century is very happily and picturesquely described for us in the story of Grania Waile, an historical personage, and a daughter of the °Walleye, who flourished in Mayo. The O'hialleys were pirates and smugglers of a reckless and jovial type in those dap, and their command of the seaboard of Con- naught was used to the utmost in defying the English occupa- tion. The characters are of a fittingly stern and enterprising fibre, and the wild scenery of the coast and its ever changing weather, lovingly and faithfully drawn by the authoress, form an admirable background to the quarrelsome, reckless, and fearless O'Malleys, O'Flaherties, and Bourkes, who fight and feast with a reality and lifelikeness that prove the vigour and simplicity of Fulmar Petrel's pen.
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