Thomas Davis, selections from his prose and poetry

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Drawing of Thomas Davis and his signature
THOMAS DAVIS
Selections from his Prose and
Poetry
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
T. W. ROLLESTON, M.A.
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NEW YORK:
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Library of Irish Literature
General Editors:
Alfred Perceval Graves,
M.A.
William Magennis,
M.A.
Douglas Hyde, LL.D.
(Dublin).

1. Thomas Davis. Selections from his
Prose and Poetry.
Edited by T. W. Rolleston, M.A.
(Dublin).
2. Wild Sports of the West. W. H.
Maxwell.
Edited by The Earl of Dunraven.
3. Legends of Saints and Sinners from
the Irish.
Edited by Douglas Hyde, LL.D.
(Dublin).
4. Humours of Irish Life.
Edited by Charles L. Graves,
M.A. (Oxon).
5. Irish Orators and Oratory.
Edited by T. M. Kettle, National
University of Ireland.
6. The Book of Irish Poetry.
Edited by Alfred Perceval
Graves, M.A. (Dublin).
Other Volumes in
Preparation.
Each Crown 8vo.
Cloth,
with Frontispiece
net $1.00
INTRODUCTION.
In the present edition of Thomas Davis it is designed to
offer
a
selection
of
his
writings
more
fully
representative than has hitherto appeared in one volume.
The book opens with the best of his historical studies—his
masterly vindication of the much-maligned Irish Parliament
of James II.[1] Next follows a selection of his literary,
historical and political articles from The Nation and
other sources, and, finally, we present a selection from
his poems, containing, it is hoped, everything of high and
permanent value which he wrote in that medium. The

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