By the Barrow River, and Other Stories

· 1904

BY EDMUND LEAMY AUTHOR OF "IRISH FAIRY TALES," ETC. WITH A FOREWORD BY KATHARINE TYNAN Edmund Leamy was the beau-ideal of a chivalrous Irish gentleman, patriot, and Christian. During a friendship extending over many years, I never knew him fall short in the slightest particular of the faith I had in him. His nature was poetic and romantic in the highest degree. Through sunny and cloudy day alike he was Ireland's man, and his faith in her ultimate destiny was never shaken. I have never known a nature more lofty or more lovable. Long years of weak health and suffering, under which most people would have sunk, could not alter his noble nature. He kept his great, loving, true heart to the last.…

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