The Legends of Saint Patrick

This book is however, inaccessible. Of the three volumes of collected works, each may be had separately, and is complete in itself. The first contains "The Search after Proserpine, and other Poems Classical and Meditative. " The second contains the "Legends of St. Patrick, and Legends of Ireland's Heroic Age", including a version of the "Tain Bo. " The third contains two plays, "Alexander the Great", "St. Thomas of Canterbury", and other Poems. For the convenience of some readers, the following extract from the second volume of my "English Writers", may serve as a prosaic summary of what is actually known about St. Patrick. H. M. ST. PATRICK. FROM "ENGLISH WRITERS. " The birth of St. Patrick, Apostle and Saint of Ireland, has been generally placed in the latter half of the fourth century; and he is said to have died at the age of a hundred and twenty.