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“By suffering worn and weary, But beautiful as some fair angel yet.”
A TRUE ARTIST A TRUE FRIEND AND A TRUE GENTLEMAN THIS BOOK WHICH HE MADE A SUCCESS
I have been so often and persuasively asked to republish _A Little Tour in Ireland_, which I wrote as “an Oxonian,” many years ago, at the request of my beloved friend and companion, John Leech, and of which only one edition has been issued, and that long since exhausted; I have been so severely upbraided for “keeping his splendid illustrations locked up in a box, and raising the price of the few copies which come into the market, to thrice the original cost;” I have been so fully certified, not only by hearsay but by my own eyes, that there is little or no perceptible change in the scenes, which he drew and I described; and my apprehension, that the style in which the book is written might be denounced as unbecoming, has been so completely expelled by the amused remonstrance of my friends, who insist that gaiety becomes an undergraduate as much as gaiters a Dean;--that I can make no further resistance, and only ask that the failings of the author may be condoned by the talent of the artist.
I. PREFATORY....................................I
II. TO DUBLIN....................................9
III. DUBLIN........................................l6
IV. FROM DUBLIN TO GALWAY......................35
V. THE FAMINE....................................48
VI. FROM GALWAY TO OUGHTERARDE................55
VII. CONNAMARA....................................65
VIII. CLIFDEN........................................7<>
IX. KYLEMORE......................................86
XVI. FROM KILLARNEY TO GLENGARRIFF.......187
XVIII. FROM GLENGARRIFF TO CORK..........204
THE “CURSED ARISTOCRATn............................7
IRISH MELODY..........................................9
LOVE AT CREWE STATION..............................II
THE UNIVERSITY PORTER................................17
THE QUEEN OF BEAUTY.............Tofa.ce 30
A PRIEST..............................................37
WHICH SHALL IT BE?..................................42
AN IRISH PIG..........................................45