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commonplace realistic detail that the style Of
Francis Stuart is rendered individual. In all
OF his novels, Pigeon Irish,' The Coloured
Dome" TRY the Sky" and GLORY" there Is
a blend of romantic mysticism and stark real
ism which is thoroughly Celtic. The mysti-
cism predominateS to such an extent that the
persons of his stories seem materializations in
dream world. Mairead, like Catherine In
Pigeon Irish," and Clarice in THE Coloured
Dome" is a symbol Of the love OF wild free
dom which rebels against the conventional re-
straints of life Mr.. Stuart's interest in flying,
SO manifest in TRY the Sky again mott
Yates his story. Mairead, daughter of Mike
O'Byrne. whose whole life has been expressed
in terms OF race horses, learns to fly when an
airdrome IS built on her fathers land. Sha
finally pilots Gen. Porteous, head of the trans
continental air routes company, to China.
Her diverse deeds in the course of her brief
life are such that at her trial she is charged
with "treachery, sabotage, inciting to disorder,
disaffection murder" and using her position
in the air routes company to start war. Her
more personal life has been such that the
bishop sees in her the fulfllment of the proph-
ecy Of the end of the world, when "a scarlet
woman shall come riding upon the monster"
She is not saint, but she dies like one.
GOLDEN RAIN. BY Margaret Widdemer New
York: Farrar & Rinehart.
YOUTH, even sophisticated modern youth,
wants romance. Iris Lanning, whose
origins were in a small Pennsylvania town,
was neither sophisticated nor modern and she
longed eagerly for romance of the good old
fashioned kind-fairy prince and all the wealth
that should go with him. In New York she
met Morgan Black, who had not found any
romance in his money but began to hope for
it as soon as he became acquainted with Iris.
There were few difficulties, in the shape of
relatives, but in the end Iris and Morgan turned
hacR he haiv,
forced into in New York and the msanthropy
he had given way to for time and decided
to be simple and happy. He explained to her
the meaning of the pot Of gold at the end
of the rainbow: After the adventures we're
all tired with seeking it all over the world thes
found it, buried under the hearthstone Of their
home. Golden Rain" is a simple, pleasant
story, smoothly written, and will please those
who want, at times or always just that kind
Of story.
COLLECTED POEMS. BY William Butler
Yeats New York: The Macmillan Co.
YEATS is one of the most thoroughly repre-
sentative Of Irish writer's. In his poetry
are lyric and dramatic versions of Irish folk
lore and tradition, emotional interpretations
Of moods, delicate musings on the past, the
present and the future, and through everything
the essence of Celtic mysticism. John Mase-
field has called Yeats 'the choicest poet and
the greatest poetical influence of our time"
This volume Of collected poems contains IL
groups of lyrical poems, including those pub
lished as "CroSswayS," The Rose" The Wind
Among the Reeds" and "The Green Helmet
and Other Poens-' There are. in addition
the narrative and dramatic poems The wan
derines Of Oisin," The Old Age of queen
Maeve," Bale and Aillinn" THE Shadowy
Waters" THE Two Kings" and '"The Gift of
Harun A-Raschid" The best work of Yeats
is in his lyrics.