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IV. JOHN BANIM :-PART VII. The return home.
London Old friends. Lines to Banim by
the late Thomas Haynes Bayly. Dublin:
Michael Banim's description of John's ap-
pearance and sufferings. Wonderful cheer-
fulness of mind: Heroic courage. Kindness
of Irish friends. "Damon and Pythias
Played for Banim's Benefit at Hawkins'-street
Theatre. Arrival in Kilkenny. Takes pos-
session of Wind-gap Cottage: Life in the
Cottage: The "Shanderadan." "The Mayor
of Windgap" Dramatized and Played for
Banim's Benefit, in Kilkenny, by Gardiner's
Company. Literary labor. Quarrel with
Messrs. Gunn and Cameron, Proprietors of
"The Dublin Penny Journal:" Banim's In-
dignant Letter to them. Distinguished Visi-
tors at Wind-gap Cottage. Banim's En-
thusiasm when the Earl of Mulgrave, the
Lord Lieutenant, visited Kilkenny: The
"Shanderedan" decorated, and bearing the
Inscription, "Mulgrave for ever." A Pen-
sion granted. Description of a day with
Banim. "Father Connell " commenced.
Visit from Gerald Griffin. His Letter to
Michael Banim. The stage darkening ere
the curtain falls: The tree dying from the
top.

V.-LITERARY AND ARTISTIC LIFE IN PARIS :-

1. Scènes de la Vie de Bohême, par Henry
Murger. Paris. 1854.

2. La Croix de Berny Roman Steeple Chase,
par Mme. Emile de Girardin, Théophile
Gautier, Jules Sandeau, et Méry. Paris.
1855.

VI.-POLONIA REDUX, A STEADFAST ALLEY :—

Lettre à l'Empereur Napoleon III. Septem-
ber 20th, 1854. Paris. 1854.

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