Contents: All MacLochlainn The National Library of Ireland 1877-1977 [157] Terence de Vere White Richard Irvine Best and his Irish Literary Contemporaries [168] Patrick Henchy The Joly Family -Jaspar Robert Joly and the National Library [184] Daniel Lenoski The Symbolism of Rhythm in W. B. Yeats [201] Brian Taylor A Strangely Familiar Scene: A Note on Landscape and Locality in Forrest Reid [213] Hugh Maxton Under the Walls [219] Janet Egleson Dunleavy The Fiction of Mary Lavin: Universal Sensibility in a Particular Milieu [222] Patrick Ralroidi Bovarysm and the Irish Novel [237] IASAIL Bibliography Bulletin for 1975 [244] Reviews by: Maurice Harmon, I.R. MacArthur, Art Cosgrove, Coilin Owens, Christopher Murray, R.K. Carty, Pat Enders, Hubert Butler, James Porter, Roger McHugh [275] Books Received [302]