MAD PUPPETSTOWNM. J. FarrellFar far & Rinehart ($2).
PIGEON IRISH-Francis Stuart-Mac-millan ($2).
Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
Though romantic Ireland may be buried: deep, as Irish Poet William Butler Yeats averred, there is life in the body yet. A heartening sign of this life is Authoress Farfell's full-flavored tale of Irish manorial life. In the big house at Puppetstown the accumulations of centuries of aristocratic, carefree culture crowd the charming ramshackle rooms. But the Cheving-tons, for all their culture, still follow the ancient traditions of wild-Irish sports and...