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Oterary History of Newry. By F. C. Crossle,

M.B. Newry, 1897. Tirst Newry Presbyterian Church : its History

and Relationships. By W. G. Strahan, M.B.

Newry, 1904. MS. History of Newry. By Philip Crossle.

NEWTOWNBARRY.

History of Co. Wexford. By P. H. Hore, M.R.I. A. Vol. VI. Newtownbarry. London, 1900-11.

O'DRISCOLL'S COUNTRY (co. Cork). A Treatise in Irish on O'h Eidirseceoil's (O'Dris- col's Country). Edited by John O'Donovan. In Miscellany of the Celtic Society. Dublin, 1849.

OFFALY. See Queen's County.

ORIEL. See Louth and Monaghan.

OSSORY.

See Kilkenny.

PARSONSTOWN (BIRR).

Early History of the Town of Birr, or Parsons- town, with the Particulars of Remarkable Events there in more recent times. By T. S. Cooke. Dublin, 1826.

PEMBROKE (DUBLIX).

History of the Pembroke Township. By F. Elrington Ball. Dublin, 1907.

PHIBSBOROUGH.

Pedigree of Phipps Family. By O. Phibbs. Dublin, 1890.

POWERSCOXTRT.

History of the Clan O'Toole and other Leinster Septe. By Rev. P. L. O'Toole. Dublin, 1890.

"The O'Tooles, Anciently Lords of Powerscourt (Feraculan), Fertire, and Imale. With Notices of Feagh MacHugh O'Byrne. By John O'Toole. Dublin, n.d.

QUEEN'S COUNTY. General View of the Agriculture and Manufactures

of the Queen's County. By Sir Charles Cooke.

Dublin, 1801. The Beauties of Ireland. Chapter on Queen's

County. By J. N. Brewer. London, 1826. History of Queen's County. Containing an His- torical and Traditional Account of its Sacred

Edifices, Castles, and other Antiquities. By

Daniel O'Byrne. 1856. An Account of the O'Dempseys, Chiefs of Clan

Maliere. By Thomas Mathews. Dublin, 1903. History of Queen's County. By Very Rev.

Canon John O'Hanlon and Rev. Edward

O'Leary. Dublin, 1907. The Midland Septs and the Pale. Chapter on

the Plantations of Leix and Offaly. By Rev.

F. R. Montgomery Hitchcock, M.A. Dublin,

1908. The Beginning of Modern Ireland. Chap. VII.

on the Plantations of Offaly and Leix. By

Philip Wilson. Dublin, 1914. ,

WlTXIAM MACABTHTJB. 79 Talbot Street, Dublin.

(To be continued.)

INCUNABXTLA IN IRISH LIBRARIES. In the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society of London, vol. xii., 1914, pp. 188 sqq., an industrious German scholar, Dr. Ernst Crous, enumerates a number of libraries, public and private, in Great Britain and Ireland in which incunabula are preserved. The writer did not visit Ireland, and appears to have obtained his information on the collections in that country from printed catalogues and private correspondence. It is remarkable that he should have entirely overlooked the Royal Irish Academy. As- sisted by the ever-obliging custodian of the valuable library of that institution, Mr. J. J. O'Neill, I have been able to discover four incunabula on the Academy's shelves. They are :

1. [Hain 2500.] " De Proprietatibus Rerum f ratris Bartholomei Anglici .... Impressus per Nicolaum Pistoris de Benssheym et Marcum Reinhardi de Argentina socios. Sub Anno Domini 1480." 320 ff. in excellent condition.

2. [Hain 6693.] " Preclarissimus Liber Elemen- torum Euclidis perspicacissimi .... Erhardus Rat- dolt Augustensis Impressor solertissimus. Venetiis impressit. Anno Salutis 1482." 137 ff.

This volume is preserved in the MS. Boom, marked 24 E. 24. There are several MS. fly-leaves at the beginning and end with mathematical and genealogical notes, the latter partly in Irish, with some Irish verses, by a certain Francis Murphy, A.D. 1785. Afterwards the book belonged to Marcus Cronin of Tralee (1801), who has scribbled in some curious memoranda, including some amatory lines written in a very transparent cipher, which are not remarkable for their good taste ; these are followed by the goliardic lines "Est mihi propositum in taberna mori," &c., and at the bottom of the page is the young lady's signature. This is perhaps a unique instance of an edition of Euclid being employed for so mundane a purpose.

On the fly-leaf at the beginning is the inscription : " A gift from a farmer of the County of Kerry anno 1838 to E. F. Day." The Kerry farmer was perhaps Mr. Marcus Cronin of Tralee. In the margins of the book are many mathematical notes and genealogical accounts of great Irish families.

3. [Hain 2809.] " Supplementum Chronicharum. Opus. . . .f ratris lacobi Philippi Bergomensis. . . . Impressum autem Venetiis per magistrum Bernardinum Ricium de Novaria : anno a nativi- tate Domini 1492."

The unnumbered ff. at the beginning are missing, the first extant folio bearing the number 9 and the signature b. The last folio is numbered 256, and there follow