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The Lives of the Irish Saints by John O'HanlonThe Irish Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 118 (Apr., 1883), p. 232Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20496960 .

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232 Wiit Flowers.

Mangan's autobiography which our Magazine was the first to publish last year. Except as literary curiosities, the poet's youthful effusions in the charade line are hardly worth discovering. Instead of jealously gathering up every tiny crumb, it would' be well for Wordsworth and

most poets if only one half or one tenth of their "Complete Poetical Works " had survived. But in that case we should bargain for " the

survival of the fittest."

IX. The Lives of the Irish Saints. By the Rev. JoIIN O'IANLON, M.R.I.A. (Dublin: James Duffy & Sons.)

Ou Irish Bollandist, our modern Colgan, has published the forty - second part of his great work. It contains the saints of the first seven days of April. Father O'Hanlon is, therefore, very far stfil from being halfway through his task. We would conjure him to make provision in some way that none of the results of his indefatigable labours may be lost. Is his part in building this temple to be Solomon's? or does God intend him only to prepare the materials like David ? We could willingly dispense with symmetry and reflections and illustrations if this sacrifice put us more rapidly in possession of the solid facts that

Father O'Hanlon's pious zeal and industry, working under heavy dis advantages for very many years, have amassed. Even since he began to publish, years enough have elapsed to allow many a subscriber to die. We trust that year by year their vacant places are more than filled up.

WITH FLOWERS.

BY ELEANOR C. DONNELLY.

flERE are heart's-ease for thy sorrows, 1 Pleasant pansies for sad thought: Passion-flowers, Easter-lilies,

With the season's fragrance fraught; But the fairest flower among them, (Of fond Memory begot,) Is the tender, slender blossom, love,

The dear Forget-me -not.

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