... picturesque—l almost used the horrid word glamorous—fighting unit in the world. The brown-red beret, the open shirt front, short gaiters, if I remember aright, sleeves rolled up to the elbow, even of the commanding officer, and the green dappled shirt ...

... latest book, a collection of short stories which he calls Athaoibhneas, a title suggesting the recapture of a lost pleasure. = The publishers are Sairseal and Dill, and the price of the attractive volume is 10/6. The stories I have already read have their ...

... anthology of short stories, partlcularly in these days with space at a premium. For one thing, the anthologist must be inclined to disregard any story that is unduly long, and some short stories as we know, are long enough to be regarded as ...

... little like saying that the young people are worrying us again. The essay is gone, a victim to the newspaper column; the short story is threatened though its ablest practitioners are fighting a resolute battle. But everyday events now provide so many thrills ...

... sale at the College. The Editor c¢f The Furrow wrote me this interesting account of the birth of the Treoir: “An interest:ng story attaches to the ‘Treoir’, One evening last Spring Fathers O Fiaich, O Doithlin and Fr. O Hullachain, 0.F.M., talked about the ...

... The Story of Mary IN THIRTY-ONE-MEDITATIONS by ABBE THELLIER de PONCHEVILLE A series of readings or simple meditations which add up 1o an attempt to reconstruct from the '‘Gospel narrative the circumstances of the life of the Holy Family with special ...

... Abdullsh was apparently ready to be the first! An assassin’s bullet was his reward. ; Mention of Mr. Briscoe reminds me of a good story told me by an American friend (oh these columnists’ friendsl). Soon wfter IMr, Briscoe’s election as Lord Mayer my friend tuned-in ...

... his enemies, his country and his friends. He never flinched. It is one of the greatest and most poignant tragedies in all story. The Very Rev. Canon Watters, President of Clonliffe College, and Chaplain to Mountjoy Prison, who attended the boy in his ...

... He was, as far as I could judge, essentially a quiet man and his approach to golf was moderate and sensible. He was a bit short then, but kept on hitting the ball round a long course like Baltray with great persistence and little loss of equanimity. He ...

... T have news of the doyen of Listowe. men of letters, Maurice Walshe. At the age of eighty-one he has just published a short story in the Saturday Evening Post, where he formerly had much success. Better still, they have asked him for another. How encouraging ...

... tAth, Valkenburg, O.P. on “St. Thomas and the Summa”, many pictures of our soldiers at home and in the Congo, and an amusing, short, descriptive article by Capt. Padmig O Siochfhradha who, with a friend, arrived tired and dusty on a motor-bike into Paris ...

... of the Cathedral we were driven to a given spot and descended to have a look at Armagh. I set off by myself as we’d cnly a short respite and I wanted to buy some cards of the Cathedral. Making my selection leisurely tn a certain shop something happened ...