0 THE IRISH MONTHLY: A Magazine of General Literature. THIRD YEARLY VOLUME. 1875. DUBLIN: McGLASHAN & GILL, 50, UPPER SACKVILLE-STREET. The IRISH MONTHLY is sent pest free for Six Shillings a year, paid in advance. The Yearly Volume is issued each November, bound in cloth, price 75. 6d. Subscriptions to be sent to the Publishers, at 50, Upper Sackvillestreet, Dublin. Literary communications to the Editor, the REv. Matthew RUSSELL, S.J., at the same address. CONTENTS. TALES AND SERIAL ARTICLES. The Chances of War. A Tale. I. On Shannon's Banks. II. the End. XI. The Camp. Lectures by a Certain Professor:- About Success About Character. About Culture 179 45 273 &c. . The Education Question 108, 228 In the Dawn 287, 357, 386, 466, 561 Also, the following Sketches, Essays, and Poems:- The New Koran Refuted. An Autumn Memory. Ad Poetam THE IRISH MONTHLY Magazine. DECEMBER, 1874. WE A CITIZEN SAINT. BY THE AUTHOR OF "EUGENE O'CURRY." "O Siena, O Siena, guarda quale e quanta Che il mondo e 'l ciel di Lei giubila e canta." E hear much of the force of circumstances in forming character; of the fortuitous events that mark the turning points in life; of the power of those "skyey influences" which cast breadths of shadow or gleams of sunshine on our way. It would often be nearer the truth to say that the turning points are just those passages at which the hitherto divergent path of another runs in upon our own; that the supreme force in moulding character is the solvert action or cohesive power of some higher intelligence brought into contact with ours; that the influences, so strong, yet so intangible, which obscure the track beneath our feet or illuminate the far horizon, are but the sympathetic agency of a human soul, radiating light or spreading gloom abroad. Nothing is more mysterious, nor yet more evident, than the power, especially for good, of purely personal influence in all the walks of life, and all the history of the heart and mind and soul. In the |