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Died. Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 80, dean of English belle-lettrists, two months after he was hit by a jeep; in Fowey, Cornwall. Known to all Eng land as "Q," red-haired Quiller-Couch (Couch, pronounced Cooch, means red in Celtic) wrote the first of his 30 romantic novels (Dead Man's Rock) in 1887, edited the Oxford Book of English Verse. An Oxford graduate, he was longtime (since 1912) King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. He always wore traditional morning dress to his lectures, relaxed in old clothes and a battered brown derby...
Mostly middle-aged men were on hand to savor this Celtic irony. Lieut. General Alexander A. Vandegrift, commandant of U.S. Marines, explained the absentees: there are 550 men "by the name of Reilly alone" in the Marine Corps...
...Days of Anger covers the years from 1924 to 1927. They are three of the quietest years in the history of the battling O'Neill clan. There is almost none of the shillelagh-shaking, back-alley bickering, front-step gossip that gives Farrell novels their authentic Celtic charm. Reason: 1 ) age and death are taming and weeding out the O'Neills; 2) Danny is growing away from his feckless family, and Novelist Farrell is busy recording the long, long thoughts of a sensitive boy in Chicago's frustrating South Side. In this book Danny works...
...well have belonged to somebody else. At her best, 34-year-old Miss Welty runs a photofinish with the finest prose artists of her time and displays a delicateness of sensibility which borders at once on genius and indecency. Yet her finest writing is nearly always marred by such Celtic locutions as "a sure man, very sure and tender"; and the sensibility is seldom grounded in anything remotely sensible...
Schrödinger has a way with him. His soft, cheerful speech, his whimsical smile are engaging. And Dubliners are proud to have a Nobel prizewinner living among them.† But what especially appeals to the Irish is Schrödinger's study of Gaelic, Irish music and Celtic design, his hobby of making tiny doll-house furniture with textiles woven on a midget Irish loom-and, above all, his preference for a professorship at the Dublin Advanced Studies Institute to one at Oxford...