"Tris Inpiscrettons." By Warre B.
Wells, George Allen and Unwin, Ts, 6d.
According to the statement on the wrapper of this book, Mr. Wells has succeeded in being admirably indiscreet about recent affairs and personalities in modern Ireland, but the reader who expects the engaging candour of a George Moore or the not less embarrassing and naughty remarks of the small boy in the drawing-room will be disappointed The author is careful to explain that in a country such as ireland, where personalities count for so much, it is necessary to study men rather than movements.. His book is a series of careful and shrewd character studies against a background of stormy events. He eschews trivial personal details, however picturesque, and one feels that if he were writing of Napoleon he would carefully omit the snuff-box and billy-cocked hat.
As a journalist in Dublin during the last decade, Mr.
Wells" was in a position to observe the political parties and literary coteries, but though politicians, poets, Generals on the run, and men who are now Cabinet Ministers, came into his newspaper office at all untimely hours, they always seem to have left just as they were on the point of becoming -indiscreet. The book is, in fact, a serious and impartial
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