More Ghosts in Irish Houses

xi, 276 pp. "James Reynolds yields to the enchantments of apparitions again in this addition to his writing on Irish ghosts (scaled and priced as was the 1955 Ghosts in American Houses). He promises an equally representative galaxy of ghosts as appeared in Ghosts in Irish Houses. His stars are mainly heroines, their stories romantic, from the luminescence of the beautiful Mrs. Oranmore, who sacrified herself to the idol of her beauty, to the fiery spectacle of an Italian mistress in distress in Ireland on to the phosphorescence of pale, pathetic Lilylight, piercing herself through the heart to defend the remains of the lord she adored. From high, heady romance there is change of key to the earthy humor of Aggie the Post, who delivered whatever came through the mails in life, and afterwards, continued to perform good deeds. If the stories are mostly this side of the grave, these high-spirited, long-haired beauties tangled in the demented Irish elements are the stuff of superior spirits."