Burns were the hospitable entertainers. When my father returned,
he wrote a short account of How the "Mastiffs" went to Iceland.
The book was printed, but was intended only for private circulation.

Every day, until his last illness, my father continued his work.
He would not otherwise have been happy. He demanded from himself
less than he had done ten years previously, but his daily task was
always done. I will mention now the titles of his books that were
published after the last included in the list which he himself has
given at the end of the second volume:--

An Eye for an Eye, . . . . 1879
Cousin Henry, . . . . . . 1879
Thackeray, . . . . . . . 1879
The Duke's Children, . . . . 1880
Life of Cicero, . . . . . 1880
Ayala's Angel, . . . . . 1881
Doctor Wortle's School, . . . 1881
Frau Frohmann and other Stories, . 1882
Lord Palmerston, . . . . . 1882
The Fixed Period, . . . . . 1882
Kept in the Dark, . . . . . 1882
Marion Fay, . . . . . . 1882
Mr. Scarborough's Family, . . . 1883

At the time of his death he had written four-fifths of an Irish
story, called The Landleaguers, shortly about to be published; and
he left in manuscript a completed novel, called An Old Man's Love,
which will be published by Messrs. Blackwood & Sons in 1884.