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...FORGE IN THE FOREST-Padraic Colum - Macmillan ($2.25). Celtic fairy tales for those children with brilliant imaginations...
...team in New York several years ago, and this rather unsuccessful venture has been now transformed into a distinct success. The rivalry between the Chicago teams, the Bears and the Cardinals, weekly brings out crowds of 40,000 spectators. Kansas City, Rock Island, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Canton, Akron, Colum bus, Buffalo, Rechester, Philadelphia, and Providence all support the new professional game...
...Author. Thomas Beer, born in 1889 at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and graduated from Yale College and Colum bia Law School, has been by turns lawyer's clerk, field-artilleryman, magazine contributor. Among his novels: The Fair Rewards, Stephen Crane...
...Colum has a romantic background, a background that is reflected in every word he writes, in the lilt of his voice, in the motions of his hands, in the occasionally fiery manner of his conversation. He was born in the town of Longford, in the Irish midlands, where his father was master of the Workhouse. From earliest childhood, he says, he was interested in wayfarers and vagabonds?and he says to his father's place came all the tramps, ballad-singers and strolling musicians of Middle Ireland. This, and his later life in County Cavan, in a place where there...
This spring Padraic (or Patrick as one might call him if one dared) is at the MacDowell Colony for writers, in Peterboro, N. H. Last year, commissioned by the Hawaiian Government, he studied the folk tales of the island and reproduced them in his fascinating prose. I believe that Colum's residence in America and his fondness for us, has been a precious addition, for more than any other quality, it seems to me, our writers lack the sense of mystic fantasy, of homely beauty, of child-like imagery that this Peter Pan-like Irishman...