The author of Father O'Flynn has completed in 1928 a
project first mooted by him in 1901 (The Celtic Song Book,
arranged by Alfred Perceval Graves, Benn, 10s. 6d.) this selection of Folk Songs, words and music, from the Gaels of Scotland, Ireland, and Man, and the Cymry of Wales, Corn- wall, and Brittany. Irish, Welsh, and Scottish folk songs are widely known : but it is pleasant to have the Manx budget —nearly all of it in translation from the Gaelic, though there
is in English a jolly seaman's ballad, The Cruise of the Tiger, and a long Hunt the Wren song. Cornwall's are all English, though one of them echoes a Connaught folk song :-
" And we were up as sure as the day, For to fetch the summer home."
Cornwall's again are jolly-tar songs. The Breton section is in Breton and French and delightful some of them are.
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