Volume 1, Number 2 · June 1, 1963
Trade Preserv'd
By J.F. Powers
The Great Hunger
by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Harper and Row, $6.95
This book goes on and on like the terrible times it describes, and then it just stops, as they did—a long drum roll of a book, with little or no relief, no trumpets. Mrs. Woodham-Smith, with her special gifts, might have done more—something for literature and perhaps even more for historiography—had she approached her material indirectly, as she has before, getting at its meaning through the characters of the principal actors, but then, of course, she would not have written the book she has, the best general history of the Irish famines.
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