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...Stories Without Women" has the hall marks of adolescence strongly upon it. The fragility of phrase and the delicate tracing that is so large a part of "Messer Marco Polo" is not to be found here. In their place is only a rather obvious striving after effect. Where Byrne usually relies upon the grace of his style he now turns to situations for his strength. And the result is not impressive...
Married. Mrs. Dorothy Cadogan Byrne, relict of Author Donn Byrne (The Wind Bloweth, Messer Marco Polo), and M. M. Willoughby Craig, Irish sportsman; at Oban, Scotland...
...they were rejoined after Garrett had several times been wounded, and Author Byrne had avoided a solution of his original problem. But in this last novel he wove, as ever, the Hibernian, theatrical beauty of a style that many found so "brave" in The Wind Bloweth, so "radiant" in Messer Marco Polo, so "heart-wringing" in O'Malley of Shanganagh, so "tender" in Blind Raftery...
With true Irish love for the brave gesture, Donn Byrne rode debonairly to his death (TIME, July 2). Half the world still mourns the creator of magical prose (Messer Marco Polo, Blind Raftery) and the other half, the conjuror of sentimental melodrama (Hangman's House, Crusade...
Died. Donn Byrne (Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne), 39, mystic Irish author (Messer Marco Polo, Blind Raftery, Hangman's House, etc.), self-styled "last of the traditional Irish story tellers"; in an automobile accident, at Bandon, County Cork...