unity of action or conventional novel structure, his brightest books, such as Lorrequer, O'Malley and Tom Burke, are in fact little more than recitals of scenes in the life of a particular "hero", unconnected by any continuous intrigue. The type of character he depicted is for the most part elementary. His women are mostly roués, romps or Xanthippes; his heroes have too much of the Pickle temper about them and fall an easy prey to the serious attacks of Poe or to the more playful gibes of Thackeray in Phil Fogarty or Bret Harte in Terence Deuville. This last is a perfect bit of burlesque. Terence exchanges nineteen shots with the Hon. Captain Henry Somerset in the glen. "At each fire I shot away a button from his uniform. As, my last bullet shot off the last button from his sleeve, I remarked quietly, 'You seem now, my lord, to be almost as ragged as the gentry you sneered at,' and rode haughtily away." And yet these careless sketches contain such haunting creations as Frank Webber, Major Monsoon and Micky Free, "the Sam Weller of Ireland". According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition: A library edition of the novels in 37 volumes appeared from 1897 to 1899 under the superintendence of Lever's daughter, Julie Kate Neville. Henry Hawley Smart is said to have taken Lever's work as one of his models when he set out on his career as a sporting novelist. Eugene O'Neill lists Lever as one of the authors represented on the family bookshelf in Long Day's Journey into Night, along with Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Gibbon, et al. Select bibliography The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer Dublin, W. Curry, (1839) Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon Dublin, William Curry, Jun. and Co. (1841) Jack Hinton, the Guardsman (1843) Tom Burke of "Ours" Dublin, William Curry, Jun. and Co. (1844) The O'Donoghue: a tale of Ireland fifty years ago Dublin, W. Curry, (1845) Nuts and Nutcrackers. London, W. S. Orr, (1845) Arthur O'Leary: His wanderings and ponderings in many lands London, H. Colburn, (1845) The Knight of Gwynne; a tale of the time of the union London, Chapman and Hall, (1847) Confessions of Con Cregan: the Irish Gil Blas London, W. S. Orr, (1849) Roland Cashel London, Chapman and Hall, (1850) The Daltons, or, Three roads in life London, Chapman and Hall, (1852) The Dodd Family Abroad London, Chapman and Hall, (1854)