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...Dublin-born Anne Crone's first novel and turned it down cold. Then an idea came to Miss Crone, 32, an Oxford graduate, and a teacher of languages in an Irish girls' school. She would send her manuscript to an old patron of Irish letters, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany. The Irish storyteller and playwright liked it so much that he volunteered to write an introduction, in which he calls Bridie Steen "one of the great novels of our time, not quite to be forgotten in a hundred years." With his handsome assist, Bridie Steen...
Poet-Dramatist Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, English professor at Athens University since 1940, turned up safe & sound in Dublin, kept mum about how he got away from Nazi-occupied Greece...
...while a colonel of the Royal Hussars, he married Miss Marie Evelyn Moreton, later author of Barriers and Anne of the Marshland...
...Author. Edward John Moreton Dra'x Plunkett Lord Dunsany, 18th Baron, is descended from an ancient Irish line whose title was conferred in 1439. He has filled his 46 years with a true Hibernian's two diversions-fighting and dreaming. He found the former with the Coldstream in Africa, and with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers more recently...
...Farnham, Yale Rev., Sept. '94). (C) The example of France (1803-'73) is irrelevant. (1) Her success in maintaining gold at parity after 1849, was due to temporary nature of the appreciation. (Farnum, Yale Rev., Aug., '94). (2) She succeeded in keeping silver at par only by makeshifts. (Moreton Trewen, Fort. Rev., June, 1893). (3) She finally abandoned free coinage. D. The demand created by free silver coinage in U. S. would not raise silver to parity with gold. (1) Demand would at most be for only $600,000,000 to replace the gold withdrawn. (Laughlin, Rev. of Rev., Sept...