Books: Irish Fury

THE FURYS—James Hanley—Macmillan ($2.50).

For seven years Mrs. Fury struggled desperately to keep her son Peter in college, where he was studying for the priesthood. A big. middle-aged Irish woman, proud, foolish, intense, domineering, Mrs. Fury had known poverty all her life, hut had never lost her spirit, controlled her magnificent temper, or grown resigned to the ways and morals of the squalid district of the English seaport where she lived. She had met her husband. Dennis, when she jumped from an excursion steamer to save a child, had been saved in...