Word: ruritania
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...dutch after Anschluss, it tells of a beautiful princess who, to save her brother's life, agrees to marry a brutal Nazi Commissioner, of a sly old grandfather who has the winning card up his sleeve. In the end the harassed nobles get safely across the frontier-into Ruritania...
Donn Byrne died in 1928 but Maurice Walsh carries on in Donn Byrne manner. Author Walsh writes of Ireland, but not the Ireland of Yeats, Synge or Joyce. His Erin is a Ruritania set to music, a light operetta in which broken hearts, murder, the open road, gentlemen disguised as tinkers, and a couple of good rough-&-tumbles lead inevitably to the old sweet finale. The Road to Nowhere's pages are damp with manly sentiment and the hero ("a man amongst men, simple men, kindly men, men who could be terrible, men who used strong language...
...CITY OF LILKES-Anthony Pryde and R. K. Weekes-McBride ($2.00). The principality of Neuberg is just two blocks to the right from Ruritania and around the corner from Graustark. There Heinrich, the inordinately evil and charming Prince, passed his time between sending people he disliked to the guillotine, making epigrams and breaking women's hearts, while Valentin, who had all of George Washington's attributes except his false teeth, clad in a black domino, plotted revolution in a cellar. And St. Luc, the English Prime Minister, was nobly but quite platonically in love with the Princess...