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Rh In the morning sees a hare with gold and silver ornaments, and follows it to a house in the wood. Old hag there finally tricks him, and turns him, his horse, dog, and bird into stone. Dubh sets out to find his brother. Comes to same castle, and is welcomed by the lady, who thinks he is her husband. In morning he follows the hare, outwits the hag, and kills her with aid of his beasts. Restores his brother, but re-turns him to stone on learning of his doings with his wife. Relents, and they come to the castle, to find that the Gruagach of Tricks in the Eastern World has carried the lady off. They pursue, and the lady learns from the Gruagach that he can only be killed by being struck on a spot on his throat by an egg, in a duck, in a ram, in an ash-tree. Donn gets the egg hits and kills the Gruagach, and they take the lady home to her father, whose second daughter Dubh then marries.

On pp. 197, 222, and 239 will be found a capital article in Irish, with an English translation, on "An Sluagh Sidhe" (The Fairy Host), from West Cork, by Mr. P. O'Leary.

Throughout the volume are several collections of Irish proverbs, localisms, and peculiar words. Dr. Kuno Meyer contributes many anecdotes from Irish MSS., with English translations, and Father O'Growney modern Irish versions of older Gaelic—one from the Yellow Book of Lecan ( 1416).

The Journal is edited by the Rev. E. O'Growney, M.I.R.A., Maynooth College, Co. Kildare; and with the new volume (vol. v) will be published monthly at sixpence.