Roman Writers.

Psalter of Cashel.

Welsh Triads and Mabinogion.

Gildas and St.Colm.
THE USES OF LITERATURE.
Before examining these periods in order to find the literature produced in them, it will be well to consider briefly what are the practical uses of literature, and to set forth, as a theme, that particular utility which it is the object of these pages to inculcate and apply.
The uses of literature are manifold.

Its study gives wholesome food to the mind, making it strong and systematic.