15 FEBRUARY 1930, Page 32

The memory of a talented and engaging Irishman is recalled

by the little volume on Standish James O'Grady, the Man and the Writer (Dublin, Talbot Press, 3s. 6d.). His son, Professor Hugh O'Grady, contributes a memoir, Mr. A. P. Graves gives reminiscences of O'Grady at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1864, and Mr. George Russell (" /E.") praises his old friend's efforts to revive an interest in the early literature and history of Ireland. Some of O'Grady's poems are reprinted, and a good portrait of him serves as frontispiece. He is best known, nowadays, by his books for young people on Irish folk-tales, but he was unquestionably the originator of the so-called " Celtic revival in Ireland.

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