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The Publishers want a word with you. We have christened this book the "Mammoth Hibernian Songster" just because it Is the largest and best collection of Irish songs ever yet squeezed into a single volume. In fact, it is a storehouse where you can always find that very ditty you were "trying to think of." Moreover, every song is genuine; every line is correct; every sentiment is "kindly Irish of the Irish." It is a treasury of national minstrelsy for every age and taste. Not a song is contained in it that can wound a sensitive nature, and not one of those vulgar, unpatriotic travesties that are miscalled "Irish" by those who know not Ireland. It is the one book, indeed, to make our song-birds happy; because it is the cleanest, completest and handsomest of Irish songsters. Our race is a musical one. Our melodies beat the world for tenderness and sublimity. The land we spring from has been known as the "Isle of Song." The harp of its ancient bards is our emblem among the nations. There is a strong movement now on foot for the revival of its ancient glories in this regard, and we believe our Songster will help on the movement by arousing the sympathies and good taste of the masses, on whom all such movements must finally depend for success. Some of the choicest melodies in the collection have their sheet music attached, as an encouragement to the technical study of "the art divine." It is the confident hope of the publishers that their Songster will be welcomed in every Irish-American home, and will serve to noble purpose in guiding the choice of youth, in recalling sweet memories to the aged Exiles of Erin, and in the comfort and inspiration that all may gather even from perusing its pages, for—
The bards may go down to the place of their slumbers, The lyre of the charmer be hushed in the grave,
But far in the future the power of their numbers Shall kindle the hearts of our faithful and brave.
{Copyright, 1901, by J. S. Hyland & Co.}
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