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 said: "Arrah, ma'am, can't you lave me alone? Sure, ye know ye're goin' to put me into a book!" Of the sketches contributed to the "New Monthly Magazine" the principal one is "The Groves of Blarney," which was dramatised to supply a character for the Irish actor, Tyrone Power. It was produced at the Adelphi in 1838, and ran for a whole season. Another play was "The Irish Refugee," which was brought out at the St. James's Theatre, and had a run of ninety nights. Of Mrs. Hall's nine novels, "The Buccaneer," a story of the protectorate of Cromwell, was the first, but "Marian, or a Young Maid's Fortunes," is decidedly the best, the warm hearted Irish nurse, Katty Macan, being specially life-like and original. There are many dramatic scenes in "The Whiteboy," a book well worthy of the attention of all who study the Ireland of sixty years age. On the whole, however, Mrs. Hall is seen at her best in her short tales, for she had not much power of designing and working out a good plot.

She and her husband may be said to have originated the fashion of chatty illustrated accounts of interesting places. Everyone is familiar with their delightful book, "Ireland—its Scenery and Character," but, besides this, they wrote another on "Baronial Halls," and another, still more attractive, "Pilgrimages to English Shrines." This was followed by "The Book of the Thames," which first