Books: Erin Go Bragh!

MAD PUPPETSTOWN—M. J. Farrell—Far 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...

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