... theme is the Easter Rising of 1916, seen in all its idealism and ineffectuality, its sordid- ness and high purpose, through the eyes of one man who is drawn into conflict and to his death, though he had no part in the planning of the Rising. Mr. O'Flaherty ...

... and Insurrection (Gollancz. gs. 6d.) is his first novel in four years and his second in fourteen. It is a story of the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916 as seen from the point of view of a fighting man from Connemara who doesn't quite know what's going on ...

... the poetry oi W. B. Yeats. Mr. T. R. Henn con siders the work from three aspects first, the influence on Yeats of the Easter Rising of 1916, and the passing of a civilisation during the 1920's secondly, he examines as far as it concerns or affects Yeats' ...

... They, even the lazy ones, are full of excitement to find themselves playing to a full house. After some disastrous attempts to rise to the occasion the leader in desperation suggests that they should re-enact the history of the family quarrel which is always ...

... (Bodley Head ns. 6d.) Grey Chieftain, by Joseph E. Chipper- field (Hutchinson 10s. 6d.), the story of a German police dog's rise to film stardom all these are good stories well told and rehable Christmas presents for children in their teens. A little more ...

... novel by Mr. Henry Morton Robinson describes the rise of a young American. half- Irish priest to the dignity of a cardinal's hat, and the soul-searchings and temporal hazards that go with that dizzy rise to ecclesiastic power. The intention of this book ...

... reactions to the three daughters of a dressmaker-neighbour, widow of a Russian aristocrat, and the effect on their lives of the rise of the Nazis and war. It told me much about German family life. WE know of daughters who dedicate their lives to a possessive ...