KING GOSHAWK AND THE BIRDS. By Eimar O`Duffy. (Macmillan. 7s.
6d. net.)—To those who like satire King Goshawk and the Birds will give great satisfaction. The story is a fantasia on this and other worlds many genera-. tions hence. On earth the millionaires have established a' monopoly, and Goshawk, the Wheat King, has bought up: all the songbirds and flowers. The Philosopher of the book. frees himself from his body and goes to another world,' where he consults Socrates on how to mitigate these and similar evils. Socrates sends him to the modern equiva-. lent of heaven, called the third heaven, Tir na n0g,- whence he imports a Hero to put things right. The doings of the Hero, who subsequently marries a daughter of the earth. and, retiring to Tir na n0g, sends the result of this union as a second reformer, are well told. The book is full of wit and imagination and saturated with the Irish spirit. Its fault is that it is too long.
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